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Yummy Mango-Banana Milkshake

"This mango milkshake with banana is great! Add vanilla bean ice cream if you want this to be a really rich drink. If you add too much vanilla ice cream it will start to taste like a vanilla milk shake instead of a mango drink."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mango and banana match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 122 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

4 cups
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. Peel and seed the half mango, then dice it. Peel the banana and cut it into chunks.

  2. Add the diced mango, banana chunks, milk, white sugar, ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg to a blender.

  3. Blend on high until completely smooth, about 1 minute. Taste and add more sugar, cinnamon or nutmeg if desired, then blend briefly.

  4. If using, add the scoop of vanilla ice cream and blend for about 30 seconds until just combined and thick.

  5. Pour the milkshake into glasses and serve right away, or chill for a few minutes first if you prefer it colder.

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. Mango + bananatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together122 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Banana + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Vanilla + milktop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

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

  5. Vanilla + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

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