A nutritious and delicious dessert for all ages, which has been known to us since childhood, is a milkshake. Many people know how to make this dish, but when it comes to cooking, they make basic mistakes, which we should talk about.
Cooking features
Many people believe that repeating such a dessert at home, preserving its taste and consistency, is very difficult. This is due to the fact that in specialized catering enterprises for this use mixers for milkshakes. In fact, their work does not affect the taste, but only accelerates the production and preparation of the finished product. To get a unique and original taste at home, you just need to correctly combine flavorings and the proportions of all components, as well as adhere to the recommended temperature of all products.
Useful or not?
Before making a milkshake, you should first determine its calorie content.
As a rule, an ordinary milkshake contains 115 kcal, and if you also add nutritious fillers to it, then daily use of it can soon lead to weight gain. In addition, the drink always contains sugar, the amount of which is also recommended to be controlled.
Of course, if you wish, you can easily prepare a low-calorie milkshake. How to make such a treat? It is enough just to replace ice cream with light curd or dilute cow's milk with soya (or even completely replace it). You can also add honey or sweet fruits instead of sugar.
Speaking specifically about the benefits, then one serving of such a drink is able to provide a daily dose of calcium and other beneficial substances found in milk. For those who do not really like pure milk, such experiments are just a find, especially if they are prepared at home on their own, because this is the only way to guarantee the natural composition of the product.
The secrets of taste
The recipe for a milkshake at home can be absolutely anything, depending only on the personal imagination and taste preferences of the author. As a standard, it is a mixture of milk and ice cream with the addition of flavoring. Ice cream here acts as a thickener and, if desired, can be replaced by another product, but more on that later.
The best milk for a milkshake with ice cream in a blender will be a medium-fat product. The thickener should be soft, so some types of ice cream need to be melted first.
In order for the cocktail to beat well, milk should be chilled, preferably up to 4-6 degrees of heat. At the same time, you can whip not only with a blender, but also with a mixer, whisk. You can even put the mixture in a bag and just shake it.
After preparation, the drink should be drunk immediately, otherwise the foam settles over time, the taste is lost, and the product may deteriorate due to fruit.
For an optimal taste, 1 gram of milk requires 250 grams of ice cream.
Variety of options
Before making a milkshake, you should prepare products for it. Instead of ice cream, a thickener of a drink can be:
- egg white;
- cream;
- soft cheese;
- cottage cheese;
- any gelling mixture.
Such a replacement will not affect the taste of the final product, but various flavors can change the cocktail completely.
They can be added individually or in combination with each other. The most popular are:
- berries;
- fruit;
- honey;
- chocolate;
- coffee;
- some vegetables;
- finished confectionery;
- cocoa, spices, herbs and so on.
Classic version
Perhaps the most popular and easiest is a milkshake with a banana. This fruit can only be mixed with milk, due to its consistency, or be part of the drink as one of the flavorings. Replace it with banana puree or mix it very well with chocolate or chocolate chip cookies.
Thanks to this combination, the chocolate milkshake will become more dense and have a pleasant fruity note.
By the way, you can make a banana drink without milk at all. To do this, just beat it with ice cream and add a little crushed ice in order to crush the consistency.
Berry Recipes
You can use berries for making cocktails all year round, only in winter frozen foods will be used for this. The caveat here is the need to grind strawberries or raspberries through a sieve in advance to get rid of small bones. If you wish, you can not do this and just at the end before serving strain the finished drink through a sieve. You can combine flavorings to your own taste, but the time-tested and many connoisseurs are the following:
- strawberries with melon;
- peach with strawberries and basil;
- strawberries and bananas;
- peach and apricot;
- kiwi and banana;
- banana and orange;
- raspberries and honey.
To prepare the fruit, you must first wash, sort and peel, then grind or grind with a blender and beat with the rest of the ingredients.
Custom Recipes
A milkshake with a banana or any other filling can be prepared without ice cream. It is best to replace it with soft cheese or cottage cheese, you can even take tofu for this, which will make the product dietary. Corn starch or condensed milk may also become a thickener.
You can make a milkshake at home (the recipe is simple to banality) without milk itself. To do this, mix ice cream, yogurt and any flavorings.
Main rules
Now it’s clear that you can combine tastes and products to make a drink as you wish, but to make it perfect, you need to consider the following recommendations:
- All components need to be connected only at maximum power in order to obtain uniformity and foam on the surface.
- Filtering the drink before serving will help get rid of grains of ice and small seeds.
- To brighten the color of the berries when whipping, you need to add a little lemon juice.
- The perfect combination of the taste of a milkshake with ice cream in a blender is achieved by combining berries and fruits.
- Enhancing the taste of a chocolate drink will help adding not only cocoa, but also chocolate chips, melted chocolate or topping.
- For density and to give an original taste, you can make a cocktail with cookies.
- Strengthen the aroma of many fruits will help spices - cinnamon or cloves.
- Ice cream can be easily replaced with gelatin or agar, previously soaked.
- Nuts in the drink should be added at the end of preparation.
- If you wish, you can also prepare a warm milkshake, replacing the ice cream in it with another thickener and heating the mixture.
- You can add alcohol to the drink.
Of course, we should not forget about the design of the drink. For decoration, you should use fruits or berries from the composition, mint leaves or diversify the drink with careless stains of syrup or topping.