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Banana and honey shake

Two spoons of yoghurt and a ripe banana, blended smooth

Easy5 min hands-on · 5 min totalServes 1
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A tall glass of thick, pale golden banana milkshake filled almost to the rim.

Scales by the glass, though a blender copes better with two portions at once than with one, which barely covers the blades.

A properly ripe banana, the kind with more brown speckling than yellow on the skin, blends into a milkshake with almost no help from anything else. Whole milk loosens it to a drinkable thickness, a couple of spoons of smooth yoghurt add body, and honey rounds off the flavour without needing any other fruit. A tablespoon of milk powder stirred in disappears completely and turns a snack into something closer to a small meal. Keep the yoghurt to a variety with nothing folded through it, since fruit-and-seed yoghurt undoes the point of blending so carefully.

Suits after surgery, a narrowed bowel, chemotherapy diarrhoea, a new stoma, during pelvic radiotherapy, after a low anterior resection

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Ingredients

Contains: Milk

  • 1ripe banana, peeled and broken into chunks
  • 200 mlwhole milk
  • 2 tbspsmooth yoghurt, no bits or fruit pieces
  • 1 tbsphoney
  • 1 tbspskimmed milk powder — optional

Method

  1. Put the banana, milk, yoghurt and honey into a blender, along with the milk powder if you are using it.

  2. Blend for 20 to 30 seconds, until completely smooth with no lumps of banana left.

  3. Pour into a glass and drink straightaway, before the banana has time to thicken it further.

Watch-points

  • Use a banana that is properly ripe, with plenty of brown speckling on the skin. A greener banana is starchier and does not blend as smoothly.
  • Use a smooth yoghurt with nothing folded through it, no fruit pieces, nuts or seeds.

Stoma note: Ripe banana and yoghurt both tend to thicken stoma output, though a sweeter drink like this can loosen it again if you have much of it at once.

Make it more nourishing

  • Use a second tablespoon of milk powder, for about 4 g more protein and 45 kcal with no more volume in the glass.
  • Swap the yoghurt for 2 tablespoons of mascarpone, which thickens the shake and adds about 120 kcal.
  • Stir in 2 tablespoons of double cream at the end, for roughly another 135 kcal.

Swaps

Instead of honey, use golden syrup or seedless jam
any of the three sweetens the same way
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