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Smoothies without milk or with homemade almond milk – Italian Cuisine

They are called milkshakes, but they can be done without milk! Here are many ideas for making milk-free smoothies

When we think of shake we immediately display the milk among the ingredients. Actually to prepare a smoothie just blend fruit or vegetables, adding something liquid that holds everything together and gives creaminess, and that can also be simply water.
Here are 5 types of smoothies that you can prepare without milk.

Smoothie

The smoothie it is the typical American smoothie that it is generally also frozen.
The characteristic of this smoothie is the temperature frozen.
You can prepare it adding ice cubes to the fruit, or using frozen fruit, almost always bananas and berries.
This smoothie is super creamy and dense and can also be consumed as a complete meal if you use protein sources inside such as yogurt.

Fruit milkshake

To prepare a delicious fruit smoothie, simply choose the mix you prefer.
Use seasonal products and dose the quantities according to the result you want to achieve.
The banana from creaminess, as well as avocado, mango and papaya.
If you use berries, kiwis, strawberries and apples instead, you will get lighter and water-rich smoothies.
You can always dilute everything by adding a little water or some lemon and orange juice if you want a cross between a smoothie and a juice. Even the you can be an excellent alternative.

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Vegetable smoothie

THE green smoothies are the latest trend in milkshakes.
It's about mix of vegetables and fruit which are very popular with healthy food enthusiasts because they are low in sugar, but rich in minerals, vitamins and fiber.
They are prepared with leafy vegetables like spinach, lettuce, rocket and kale cabbage, but also with fruits rich in vitamin C like orange, lime and kiwi and sweet vegetables such as fennel.
Obviously, in this case too, bananas can be added to obtain a creamier and sweeter result and ice cubes for the frozen version.

Not just milk

If you want to prepare a milk shake you must necessarily use the milk, but not necessarily cow's milk.
There are many on the market plant alternatives milk, many very tasty drinks that can become an excellent base for your smoothies.
We especially recommend the almond milk which is very full-bodied and slightly sweet, but also that of oats and coconut.
And in addition to milk you can try to prepare very special smoothies with yogurt, also vegetable, and ice cream.
In this case, more than just a snack, you will get an amazing complete meal.

Homemade Almond Milk

If you really are not going to give up milk in your milkshake, you have time these days prepare it at home, of course we are talking about vegetable milk made with almonds.
It is a very simple procedure. Just dip 200 g of peeled almonds in 500 ml of water and soak for two hours.
Then pour everything into a mixer by adding more 500 ml of water and blend.
Strain the mixture with a thin gauze and keep the almond milk in the refrigerator for a week.
You can also sweeten it with honey and maple syrup and if you like you can add vanilla, but it is also delicious naturally.

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Bananas too ripe? 10 recipes to cook them from smoothies to pancakes – Italian Cuisine

The bananas you have in the fruit basket have become a bit spotted? They are too soft and ripe and you do not want to eat them? What are you waiting for? Cook them!

You know that there are recipes that are prepared just with the more mature bananas, those that we usually discard because they are more black than yellow?
In addition to becoming more sweets, with the ripening the bananas buy one softer texture, which makes them particularly suitable for cooking, both in doughs and for creams and snacks.
Are you looking for ideas to cook them and do not throw them away? Here it is 10.

Caramelized bananas

They are bananas cooked in a pan only with sugar and butter.
You can cut them into rounds or even into two parts lengthwise and you can then accompany them with an ice cream, porridge or a simple yogurt.

Grilled bananas

Have you ever thought of doing some skewers with fruit? Try them with bananas.
Just stick them with a skewer wood skewer and then cook them on the hot plate. You can cook them whole or in rounds.
Once ready and still warm sprinkle with icing sugar or honey or maple syrup.

Baked bananas

A quick dessert that kids always love because these bananas are stuffed with chocolate and marshmallows. Peel a banana and cut it in half lengthwise without cutting it completely. Put drops of chocolate and mini marshmallows inside the cut and then wrap it all with silver paper. Bake in the oven at 180 ° for about 10 minutes, just long enough to melt the filling.

Banana Bread

This American dessert is made only and strictly with very ripe bananas. To prepare a perfect banana bread, follow our advice!

Pancakes two ingredients

How many times have we proposed this recipe? So many, but only because we go crazy.
It's a simple, healthy and fast idea.
It is prepared by crushing two fairly ripe bananas and mixing them with two eggs. Do not blend, do not whisk. Simply mix.
This mixture is then cooked on a non-stick pan as you do for pancakes.

Smoothies and smoothies

Always with the ripe bananas you can prepare excellent ones shakes, adding other fruit.
If you froze instead you will get fresh and greedy smoothies, very similar to an ice cream, but without cream and sugar.
Do you want a delicious recipe? Blend a banana with cubed frozen almond milk, peanut butter and hazelnut cream. A super nutritious snack for an energizing and delicious break!

Porridge

If you love porridge breakfast, add it milk and oatmeal a ripe banana.
Cook everything together and you will get a really very creamy consistency.
Enrich it with other slices of banana, chocolate chips or cocoa powder, dried fruit or seeds and peanut butter.

French Toast

The French Toast it is a delight to prepare for the brunch weekend. A crunchy and hot toast stuffed with bananas and hazelnut cream and then fried in butter.
To prepare it, buy some toast bread and stuff it with crushed bananas and hazelnut or almond cream, or with jam. Close the toast and then pass it in a mixture made with milk and beaten eggs (1 egg and a glass of milk or cream). Fry everything in a pan with a knob of butter and then sprinkle with icing sugar and garnish with maple syrup and other bananas.

Breakfast cake

Add a crushed ripe banana to your dough simple breakfast cake, also to apple, yogurt or donut cake that you always prepare.
You will fall in love with the new, more humid and compact consistency. With a pinch of cinnamon, then, certainly not wrong.

Fried bananas

You know that you can also make some sweet and savory fried snacks with bananas?
Cut the bananas into slices and dip them in a batter prepared by mixing three tablespoons of water with two tablespoons of honey, 60 g of flour, 1 egg and a pinch of baking soda or baking powder.
If you want the salty version remove the honey and add a pinch of salt and smoked paprika to the batter.
Fry everything in immersion in the boiling oil.