How to make a banana milkshake in a blender?
Desserts and drinks prepared by one's own hands allow not only to enjoy a wonderful taste, to please guests and decorate the festive table, but also to cheer up, and in many cases get a boost of energy and a lot of useful substances. These drinks include a milkshake with a banana. And it's easy to make in a blender.
Cooking features
In order to start the process of preparing a tasty and healthy cocktail, you need to get yourself a blender, and for milkshakes, the simplest one is suitable, without a variety of technical frills. It is also worth stocking up with all the necessary ingredients that will be involved in creating a culinary masterpiece. Preparation of bananas will consist in the fact that they need to be washed under running water. This should be done without fail, despite the fact that the peel is not used.
While the fruit comes to us, it travels a long way, and in addition, it is sometimes processed with various substances.
One way or another, removing the skin, we come into contact with the pulp of the fruit. So it definitely needs to be washed. Next, the banana is peeled, cut into circles and sent to the blender bowl. Milk is sent there, the blender is closed, where the banana with milk turns into a homogeneous composition. And then the finished cocktail with banana and milk is poured into glasses or glasses and decorated to your liking. It can be mint leaves, fresh berries, whipped cream, grated chocolate, pieces of fruit.
Milkshake can be supplemented with other ingredients. In this case, the selected components are added to the blender at the cooking stage. For example, orange or strawberries, ice cream or syrup. Fruits and berries are pre-washed and cleaned.
Classic recipe
The easiest way includes bananas and milk. If you want to make a sweeter drink, then you can add sugar, provided that this is not a diet option. To make a delicious dessert, all products must be fresh and of high quality. As for bananas, they can be either slightly unripe or overripe. The difference will be that the ripe fruit is sweeter and has a pronounced taste and aroma. Perhaps in such a cocktail sugar will be superfluous. And if the banana is not ripe, the sugar in the drink will be useful. As for the consistency, if you want to make the drink thicker, add more bananas. For an easier option, you can limit yourself to a few pieces.
To prepare a cocktail for two servings you will need:
- 2 glasses of milk;
- 2 medium bananas;
- 2 teaspoons of sugar.
A step-by-step cocktail recipe looks like this:
- bananas, after washing, are peeled, cut into circles and placed in a blender;
- milk (pre-chilled) is poured into a blender container;
- add sugar to taste;
- close the blender lid, turn on the most powerful mode;
- turn off after a minute, usually this time is enough for an air foam to form;
- then the resulting drink is poured into glasses, decorated as desired.
Instead of ordinary sugar, you can add cane sugar, powdered sugar, a spoonful of honey or fruit syrup to such a drink.
Other options
But you don't have to limit yourself to just these components. There is a huge variety of products that perfectly complement a banana milkshake, give it a twist, and add an unexpected bright touch. And each of them is easy to do, and even exciting and enjoyable. Banana is combined with many fruits and berries, and in any tandem it will be a harmonious bright taste that you will want to return to again and again.
with ice cream
The favorite treat of children, supplemented with milk and banana, can turn into a very tasty and nutritious smoothie. It can be a pleasant end to a children's lunch or an addition to a fun children's holiday. To prepare it, simply mix milk, ice cream and fruits in a blender. The quantity depends on the number of those who are to be treated, and the proportions depend on their own taste preferences. You can add, for example, more milk or ice cream, as you like. For three servings you will need:
- 0.5 liters of milk;
- 300 grams of ice cream;
- 2 bananas.
The drink will be quite sweet. To balance the taste, you can add a little sourness by complementing the cocktail with a green apple or orange.
Protein
Such a cocktail will be useful for those who have serious physical exertion_ or for those who constantly disappear in the gym and work on muscle relief. He prepares everything according to the same scheme. For half a liter of milk, you can take 1-2 bananas and add 2 tablespoons of whey protein. A nutritious, energizing drink is ready. In addition to it, cocoa powder or grated chocolate can go.
with an apple
You can get a vitamin boost by adding an apple to a banana. The preparation will look like this:
- the apple must be peeled, seeds removed, cut into pieces;
- peel the banana, cut into slices;
- put fruit in a blender, add milk;
- beat the composition thoroughly;
- at the end, you can add a pinch of cinnamon or a few mint leaves.
Such a cocktail can be supplemented with a pear or pineapple.
With chocolate
Another incredibly tasty treat will turn out if you use chocolate as an additional component. You can add grated chocolate to milk and a banana or replace it with cocoa. It can also be chocolate syrup or a few tablespoons of coffee. It will be delicious either way. A little ice cream will also be quite useful in this composition.
With kiwi
This exotic fruit will add an interesting and original touch to the dessert. If you like sourness, you can put more kiwi. The recipe is extremely simple. Kiwi and bananas need to be peeled, cut into pieces and sent to a blender, pour milk. If you want the cocktail to be sweeter, you can add a spoonful of sugar or honey, ice cream would also be a good option. After mixing, pour into beautiful glasses and top with mint leaves or berries.
For a diet, another way is suitable. Only banana, kiwi and no sweetener. And in this case, milk can be replaced with kefir with one percent fat content or yogurt without sugar. The options for preparing a delicious drink are not limited to this. Pear, melon, strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, cherry, sweet cherry, orange, lemon, peach, apricot, pineapple will very well complement a milkshake with a banana. Each of these fruits and berries will add a new touch of taste.
In addition, the cocktail will acquire a new taste if you add juice to it.
It can be anything - apple, orange, strawberry, raspberry, grape, peach, apricot. Syrup would also be a good addition. - chocolate, coffee, mint, lemon, tangerine. The number of options is unlimited. It all depends on imagination, mood, taste preferences and occasion.
Recommendations
For a cocktail to benefit and leave a pleasant impression, you need to follow the norm and listen to some recommendations.
- Using a variety of ingredients to make a cocktail, especially when it comes to children, you need to make sure that the baby is not allergic to a particular product (especially if the product is introduced into the diet for the first time).
- When preparing a drink for children, their tastes must be taken into account. Do not add the fruit, juice or syrup that the baby does not like. It can spoil the mood, not bring pleasure.
- Do not drink high-calorie sweet drink at night. Better if it is in the morning or afternoon. If this happens in the evening, it can be used instead of dinner. This is especially true for those who are on a diet in order to lose weight. Of course, such a cocktail is quite high-calorie, but if it replaces dinner, there will definitely be no harm. Especially if milk is replaced with low-fat kefir or unsweetened yogurt.
- Do not arrange fireworks of tastes. Despite the fact that a banana goes equally well with different foods, they should be alternated. For example, today you can make a cocktail of banana, strawberries, blueberries and milk, another time add pineapple and orange to a banana, and then try cherries and raspberries.
- If you don't like milk it can always be replaced with yogurt or kefir, it will have a different taste, but no less benefit.
- You can prepare a cocktail with the help of a mixer and even by hand, if suddenly there was no blender. To do this, all fruit and berry ingredients must be thoroughly kneaded, rubbed through a sieve. Add milk or kefir, yogurt or ice cream to the puree composition, beat everything well with a whisk.
- Any of the prepared cocktails should be consumed only immediately, fresh. Such a product cannot be stored even in the refrigerator. If the drink is left for at least half an hour, it will not taste the same, and the aesthetic appearance will fail. The beauty of the cocktail is that it is not only tasty, but also looks very attractive with lush foam on top. Usually, in addition to a cocktail, there is a straw, so it is more interesting and pleasant to drink it.
- So that in the summer in the heat the drink brings maximum pleasure, You can add a few ice cubes to it.
- You should not add various sweets and components in the form of pieces to the cocktail: nuts, fruits, caramel, chocolate, marmalade, marshmallows. All these components are good, but only in the form of jewelry. It is pleasant to sip a cocktail from a straw, enjoying its taste.
The banana milkshake recipe in the blender is in the video below.