Banana-Parsley Milk Shake (TGRWT #2)
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Food pairing is fun, because it looks absurd at first sight. Then you think about it, and it still seems improbable. Then you taste it, and… sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not ;)
This second edition of They Go Really Well Together started by Martin at khymos.org is now hosted by Tara at Should You Eat That?. This time, the goal is to associate banana with parsley. I did it with an obvious parsley enhanced banana milk shake.
Ingredients
- 2 ripe bananas
- 100g vanilla ice cream
- about 5 dL milk
- 5 cL fresh parsley
Preparation
Peel and slice the bananas into a blender. Add the ice cream cut into small parcels (otherwise you might clog the blender) and the milk. Mix until smooth.
In a small and fast blender, chop the parsley. Add about 2 dL of milk shake, and mix until smooth.
Comment
It's foamy and creamy like any banana milk shake, but definitely much more green! The first attempt smelled and tasted obviously of banana and vanilla, with a hint of something else you can't recognize. The parsley then bursts out in the aftertaste.
In the second attempt I put a little less parsley (the leftovers of the bouquet, actually), and whereas it looked the same and tasted fine, the aftertaste was absent. I suppose numerous experiment and a precision scale (for weighing the parsley) would be necessary to be able to reproduce the recipe.
[ Posted on May 18th, 2007 at 11:29 | no comment | permanent link ]
