🥑 Avocado shake
An avocado shake is ripe avocado blended with milk, sugar and plenty of ice into a thick, cold, gently sweet drink. In Southeast Asia, where avocado is treated as a fruit for desserts rather than for salads, it is one of the most popular street-stall drinks. The texture is smooth and creamy, the colour pale green, and it is usually drunk through a wide straw on hot afternoons.
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What it is made of
Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 large ripe avocado (about 200 g flesh)
- 300 ml cold milk
- 2–3 tbsp sugar, to taste
- 1 cup crushed ice (about 150 g)
Method
- Put the avocado flesh, milk and sugar in a blender.
- Add the ice and blend until smooth and thick, about 1 minute.
- Taste for sweetness and serve at once in chilled glasses.
How to make it lighter
- Cut the sugar to 1 tbsp or less — ripe avocado is creamy enough without much sweetening.
- Use low-fat milk and more ice for a lighter, more refreshing glass.
- Treat a large shake as a snack in its own right, not as a drink alongside a meal.
History
Avocados reached Southeast Asia from the Americas in the colonial era, and in Indonesia (jus alpukat), Vietnam (sinh tố bơ) and the Philippines the fruit is mostly eaten sweet, blended into shakes like this one.
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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →