These three drinks each involve a blender and, depending upon the country and the ingredients, may even refer to the same thing.
Here, in Honduras, although some there is some occasional confusion, the definitions usually work out as follows:
Yes. Aside from the usual, breakfast use of oatmeal as a hot cereal, ground, powdered oatmeal is used to make hot and cold drinks. In fact, even the Quaker brand of oatmeal is available in the powdered form, not just as the usual, whole oats (although I use a different brand). If you can't get ground oatmeal, you'll need to grind regular oatmeal, yourself, as finely as possible.
To make this batido, put 1 cup of milk, one cup of ice cubes, two tablespoons of powdered oatmeal and honey or sugar to taste into a blender and blend it for a FULL minute. The time is important, since it not only breaks apart the ice, but also incorporates the oatmeal so that the batido almost gets the thickness of a milkshake, even though it doesn't have any ice cream.
That's it! Very simple, but sooooooooo yummy!
Here, in Honduras, although some there is some occasional confusion, the definitions usually work out as follows:
- Licuado: A smoothie: fresh fruit, milk and/or ice and/or yogurt. sweetener and maybe some other additions. For example, one really tasty licuado has papaya, granola, and ice, all puréed in a blender.
- Malteada: A milkshake, complete with ice cream.
- Batido: Kind of a smoothie without fruit and a milkshake without ice cream - usually make with milk and ice plus some addition.
Yes. Aside from the usual, breakfast use of oatmeal as a hot cereal, ground, powdered oatmeal is used to make hot and cold drinks. In fact, even the Quaker brand of oatmeal is available in the powdered form, not just as the usual, whole oats (although I use a different brand). If you can't get ground oatmeal, you'll need to grind regular oatmeal, yourself, as finely as possible.
To make this batido, put 1 cup of milk, one cup of ice cubes, two tablespoons of powdered oatmeal and honey or sugar to taste into a blender and blend it for a FULL minute. The time is important, since it not only breaks apart the ice, but also incorporates the oatmeal so that the batido almost gets the thickness of a milkshake, even though it doesn't have any ice cream.
That's it! Very simple, but sooooooooo yummy!
If blueberry muffins have blueberries in them, what do vegan muffins have?