Chikoo milkshake is a refreshing, healthy and filling milkshake that you can make for breakfast or brunch. Chikoo also known as sapota or sapodilla is a locally available fruit in India. It is a sweet juicy and pulpy fruit and is liked by many people.
About Chikoo Milkshake
There are many variations of shakes made in India with many fruits. This chikoo shake is one such variation where sweet soft ripened chikoo is blended with milk and sugar.
Growing up we would have chikoo milkshake often during the summers. Chikoo is a seasonal fruit and is mostly available during Indian summers. Many of the times we usually enjoy them as it is or add them to Fruit Salad and sometimes I make this sapota shake.
I have used organic chikoo to make this milkshake. They were very sweet and just melt in the mouth like butter. We were totally awed. We are so much used to tasting or having fruits grown with fertilizers and pesticides that we have forgotten how a naturally grown fruit tastes.
If the chikoo are very sweet then you can reduce the quantity of sugar or skip it entirely. I have added coconut sugar to this milkshake.
Coconut sugar is healthier than regular sugar. Most of the time while making milkshakes and cakes I use coconut sugar, jaggery powder or unrefined organic cane sugar or raw sugar. The coconut sugar has a similar taste to that of palm jaggery.
For a colder milkshake add chilled or cold milk. Optionally you could also add a few ice cubes while blending. This sapota milkshake taste the best as soon as it is made. I won’t recommend refrigerating them or storing them as the taste changes over a period of time. So best enjoyed fresh.
Ripening of Chikoo
To make this chikoo milkshake buy chikoo that is fresh and ripe. To check the ripeness press the outer skin with your fingers or thumb. A ripened chikoo will be soft to touch. If the outside feels hard or stiff then sapota is not ripened yet.
If you buy a batch of unripened chikoo then don’t worry. You can easily ripen them on the kitchen countertop. I follow this method:
- Soak the chikoo in a bowl of fresh water to which some vinegar or baking soda is added for 5 minutes. This helps to get rid of the pesticides.
- Later discard this water. Rinse the chikoo again a few times in fresh water. Then drain all the water.
- Place the chikoo on a plate or tray or kitchen towel. Let them dry naturally or you can wipe them dry with a clean kitchen towel. Alternatively you can store them in clean paper bags, place in a dry place and let them ripen.
- Once thoroughly dried place them in a bowl. Keep a clean cotton kitchen napkin on the bowl covering it entirely. Keep this bowl for a few days in a dry place until the chickoos are ripened. Keep checking everyday and cover with the same kitchen napkin.
- You have to check everyday as some chikoo will ripen faster than others.
You can eat them with skin or you can peel the skin. The chickoo peels also have a good amount of nutrition in them.
Few more Milkshake recipes on the blog are:
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Chikoo Milkshake
Ingredients
- 2 to 2.5 cups chopped chikoo rinsed, peeled and deseeded chikoo (sapota or sapodilla)
- 2.5 to 3 cups milk you can also use soy milk or almond milk or cashew milk
- coconut sugar or unrefined organic cane sugar or white sugar, add as required.
- few ice cubes (optional)
Instructions
- Peel the chikoo and chop them roughly. Discard the seeds.
- Add chopped chikoo pieces in a blender.
- Pour the milk.
- Add the sugar or jaggery as required depending upon the sweetness of the chikoo and your taste preferences.
- Blend everything till smooth.
- You can add ice cubes if you want while serving.
- Serve the chikoo milkshake immediately.
- Chikoo milkshake should ideally be taken fresh. So don't keep any leftovers.
This Chikoo Shake post from the archives (April 2013) has been updated and republished on 17 October 2021.
Wonderful
You can also add dates to the chickoo milk shake… Read it somewhere and on trying felt itntastes good… N ends up being a lil more healthier too.
Sorry one more question,what is organic sugar? white sugar has pesticides? i am confused.can we use organic sugar in tea or other sweets like halwa etc? difference b/w jaggery and organic sugar raw
yes you can use organic sugar in everything. i use it in tea, sweets, halwa and even in baking. there are three types of organic sugar available in indian markets. one is bleached white sugar and the other one is unrefined. use the unrefined one. it has a light cream to brown color. the third one is organic brown sugar. you can use brown sugar for making tea, coffee, cold drinks and cakes or cookies. but do not use it in indian sweets. jaggery is different and raw sugar is different.
looking yummy i will try this dfntly.but i did not find any organic items in delhi,do u purchase organic items online? please tell me some brand name
i buy organic veggies and fruits locally. these ones from a local vendor selling chickoos and mangoes from ratnagiri. even the grocery stuff i buy locally. most of the organic brands are good.
I am crazy about chickoo and mangoes. Unfortunately, we don’t get very chickoos here in Florida but will keep an eye out for it the next time I am at the Indian store.
You just brought some wonderful childhood memories when my mom would give this to us after school. So yum!!!
Refreshing and tempting milkshake.. Beautiful pictures as always 🙂
Totally fabulous drink! I must have found chickoo here only a couple times in the past fifteen years . This is the same fruit we enjoyed all Summer long in my grandparents’ home as little kiddos!
you can find frozen chickoo (sapotas) in indian grocery stores and they are very good for smoothie.