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Strawberry Kiwi Milkshakes

"It uses regular stuff you can find at the store. This is a very enjoyable and easy recipe kids can make!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 19,175 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Place the sliced fresh strawberries and sliced kiwifruit in the freezer for about 15 minutes so they blend thick and cold, or chill them in the fridge if you prefer.

  2. Pour the milk into a blender first, then add the vanilla ice cream on top.

  3. Add about half of the chilled strawberries and half of the kiwifruit to the blender.

  4. Blend on high for 45 to 60 seconds until completely smooth and thick.

  5. Add the remaining strawberries and kiwifruit and blend again until smooth, stopping to scrape down the sides if needed.

  6. Taste and blend a few seconds more if you want it thinner, then pour into glasses and serve right away.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Milk + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Kiwifruit + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Vanilla + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together12,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  4. Kiwifruit + milktop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Milk + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together29,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

Vanilla and cream share little aroma chemistry, yet 12,294 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the kiwifruit

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, vanilla, cream):

  1. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  4. Kiwifruitthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, vanilla, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).