Ingredients
- 2 cups milk
- 1/2 cup dehydrated banana chips
- 1/4 cup dehydrated sliced strawberries
- 1/4 cup plain yogurt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 5 ice cubes
Instructions
- This one uses whole dried pieces rather than powder, so the fruit needs a head start. Cover the chips and slices with the milk and leave them ten minutes before the blender is switched on.
- Check the packet on the banana chips. Many are fried rather than dried, and a fried chip brings oil into the jug that leaves a film on the glass and on your teeth.
- Blend the soaked fruit and milk until you cannot see a speck of red or white. Strawberry slices are fibrous and a half-blended one shows up as a gritty thread.
- Fold the yoghurt in at the end on the lowest speed. Overworked yoghurt goes thin and grainy, which is the opposite of what it was added for.
- Hold the sugar back until you have tasted it. Dried fruit is concentrated and the milk brings sweetness of its own, so the spoonful in the list is a maximum rather than a requirement.
- Add the ice last and pulse only enough to break it up. Drink it while the ice is still in pieces — the texture here comes from the chill, and a melted one tastes flat.
Nutrition
| Per 1 oz (28 g) | Per 100 g | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 115 kcal | 404 kcal |
| Protein | 3.9 g | 13.7 g |
| Fat | 3.6 g | 12.6 g |
| saturated | 2 g | 7.1 g |
| Carbohydrate | 17 g | 60.1 g |
| sugars | 13.9 g | 48.9 g |
| Fibre | 1.4 g | 4.8 g |
| Sodium | 45 mg | 160 mg |
Estimated from the ingredients, for the finished dried product. Actual values vary with the produce you use and how far you dry it.
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