Chikoo milkshake is a tasty, refreshing and healthy milkshake that you can make and enjoy for breakfast or a snack. Chikoo is also known as Sapota or Sapodilla. They are tropical fruit, that is available locally in India.
Fully ripened Chikoo is a sweet, juicy and pulpy fruit just like ripe mangoes.
This makes sapota, a great ingredient to be added to salads, smoothies and ice creams.
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About Chikoo Milkshake
Chikoo is a tropical fruit that is available locally in India. It is also a seasonal fruit that is easily available throughout Summer.
While my children love enjoying this fruit in the form of this chikoo milkshake, I prefer adding them to my green smoothie.
Apart from eating the fruit as such, We also love adding it to salads and fruit custard.
In shops, they make this chikoo milkshake with ice cream, but here I have made the same one without ice cream, without compromising on taste and thickness.
Chikoo Milkshake Benefits
The pulpy nature of the chikoo fruit becomes beneficial when it comes to proper digestion and functional bowel movement.
As the sapota fruit is rich in dietary fibre, it helps to improve digestion. It acts as a laxative, thereby providing relief from constipation problems.
Since you can digest chikoo milkshake easily and quickly, it helps in improved weight loss as well.
In general, chickoo milkshake makes a great drink for healthy & active adults including pregnant women, children and toddlers.
Who should avoid drinking chikoo milkshake?
Sapota or Chikoo is high in sugar content and loaded with simple sugars, making chikoo milkshake calorie rich as well.
So it is best to be avoided by people who have diabetics. If you are a person who is overweight and follow a sedentary lifestyle, avoid consuming sapota.
How to choose the best sapota?
Always choose fully ripened sapota to make the milkshake. When you press the fruit, it should have some give, and it will be soft to press as well.
Avoid using raw sapota fruit in general, as the tannins present in them can irritate the tongue and mouth after eating.
Some may also experience severe irritation, itching and swelling of the throat after consuming raw sapota.
Ripening the Sapota Fruit
You don’t have to do anything special to ripen the fruit. You can simply place them in a bowl and leave them on your kitchen counter. Cover them with a towel, and they will start to ripen on their own in 2 or 3 days.
Make sure to check each fruit daily by pressing gently, as the ripening process differs for each fruit, and you don't want some to over-ripen and go to waste.
Ingredients
- Chikoo or sapota
- 2% toned milk
- Sugar
- Almonds
Please refer to the recipe card for the correct measurement of ingredients.
How to make chikoo milkshake
Add all the ingredients to a blender jar and run the blender till the contents are smooth and creamy.
You can also add a few ice cubes while blending if you are using room temperature milk.
Nutrition Profile
This recipe is
- Dairy-Free
- Egg-Free
- Gluten-Free
- High Fibre
- Soy-Free
- Vegetarian
- Zero Oil / Oil-Free
Substitutions
You can reduce half the quantity of chikoo and replace it with apple to make chikoo apple milkshake.
Likewise, replace half the chikoo with a banana to make chikoo banana milkshake.
Variations
1. Vegan option - Use either soy milk, almond or cashew or coconut milk in place of regular milk.
2. Sweetener - You can make chikoo milkshake without sugar. Instead of sugar, use any sweetener of your choices like jaggery, honey, maple syrup, coconut sugar, condensed milk, a scoop of vanilla ice cream and dates or raisins.
3. Chocolate version - To make chikoo chocolate milkshake recipe, add 2 tablespoon cocoa powder while blending.
4. For Toddlers & Children - Make sure to use full cream milk and ice cream to make it tastier for them. Growing children need the extra calories as they are always very active.
5. Added Protein - To make it high in protein, you can add a scoop of whey protein or this homemade protein powder. You can also replace half the milk with Greek yoghurt.
More Milkshake Recipes
- Mango Milkshake
- Avocado Milkshake
- Dry Fruits Milkshake
- Apple Cinnamon Milkshake
- Chocolate Banana Milkshake
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Recipe
Chikoo Milkshake Recipe - Sapota Milkshake
Ingredients
- 5 to 6 chikoo or sapota peeled and seeds removed
- 1½ cups 2% toned milk chilled
- 10 almonds soaked in hot water for 15 mins
- sugar to taste
- 4 to 5 ice cubes
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract optional
Instructions
- Peel the skin of the almonds and discard the skin.
- Add almonds, sugar, ¼ cup milk into a blender jar and run the blender for few seconds till the almonds are crushed and coarse.
- Add remaining milk, chikoo, vanilla extract, if using and ice cubes to the jar and process till smooth and creamy.
- Pour into glasses and serve immediately.
Jayaraj MS
Yummy recipe. Healthy milkshake. Need to freeze milk to get a delicious milkshake. Thank you
Honey
hey.. i know what chikoo is. when i visit india, i love eating this fruit.. too bad we don't get it here in the US.. and if we do, dont' know the english term. 🙂
divya
Yummy recipe! thanks! English name is sapota or sapodilla.
Priya
We get rarely fresh chikoos here, really missing this fruit,super tempting shake.
Roopa Pavan
Delicious....
Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran
Healthy milkshake and learnt the need to freeze milk to get a delicious milkshake. Thank you.
Hemavathi Murari
Lovely milkshake. I love it with chickoos and your beautiful presentation.
Follow foodie
Looks yummy
Gayathri NG
My hubby's fav milkshae, looks so good...
Pragyan
Miss Chikoos here..the canned ones are no comparison! Yummo! 🙂
Delicious Adventures
anything with chickoo...i want it..
anne
The weather here's the same ! pfftttt And this refreshing and healthy drink will surely chase the some of the toxic heat there albeit temporary ;D I'ts been a long time that I've eaten chico though 😛
Swati Sapna
You really have been on an overdrive with all the cooling summer drinks and milkshakes! 😀 cant blame you... that Agni Nakshatram is a killer! The chickoo milkshake is just what u need for those horribly hot days and nights 🙂
Delicious Adventures
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Roshu
Delicious milk shake to fill our tummy.....
Nalini's Kitchen
Delicious and healthy milk shake,my favorite fruit but we don't get that fruit here...your picture makes me craving for it...
Gloria
Look delicious!!
Giancarlo
dall'Italia un caloroso...ciao
Roshni
I can understand your plight... i am also horrible with heat... I love chickoo milkshakes a lot.... i really miss it.
Maayeka
cool and refreshing..loved the idea of adding vanilla essence in it
Sangeetha
chikoo one of my fav fruit, here i don't find fresh n tasty fruit,missing a lot 🙁 milkshake looks so delicious!
radha
The heat is killing us all!!! Can reach for that!
anusha praveen
yeah radhi the heat s killing me too.. and yes the chikoo seeds are so darn cute!!! maybe i could convert them into buttons sometime 🙂 and as for this shake, it looks brilliant
Hari Chandana
Refreshing and healthy milkshake.. perfect for this hot summer 🙂
PT
delicious milkshake.. thanks for visiting my blog and leaving a comment dear.. i am ur new follower friend..
Spice up the Curry
chikoo shake was my fav when i was kid. This is so awesome drink in summer
meena
hi. the heat is too much and all the time i also think how to cool off,
chiku as fruit i dont like at all for some reason but i love it disguised as milkshake or icecreams
Shobha
Freezing milk before use is a good idea for a chilled milk shake.