Sweet, cool, and refreshing carrot milkshake is one of the best recipes that let us enjoy summer. Not just that, it is a milkshake that is NOT loaded with sugar or dairy ingredients!
Don't you think that's incredible?! Although the name says milkshake, I have a great vegan recipe that I am excited to share with you today!
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About this recipe
What excites me most about this recipe is the all-natural creamy sweet taste with simple everyday ingredients. I cannot wait to hear from you about this and how much you like it.
You can hardly find milkshakes that come in flavors other than vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry. So I came up with the idea of using carrots. I don't think I have to go at length about the goodness of carrots. A recipe such as this is an easy way to add a serving of this super veggie to your diet.
Better yet, this carrot milkshake is vegan, sugar-free, and gluten-free. Including carrots often in our diet improves eyesight, digestion, boosts immunity—all the more reasons for making this carrot milkshake a regular part of your breakfast plans.
Vegan Carrot Milkshake is easy to prepare and a relatively quick recipe if all the ingredients are prepped. You could optionally steam the carrots to soften them, but I used them raw.
Next, I substituted the sugar with pitted dates and regular dairy with non-dairy milk. I used almond milk, but there are several other options like Oats milk or Soy milk. Just choose your favorite non-dairy milk.
With these wonderful and healthy substitutions, you can enjoy your milkshake your way without any guilt!
Ingredients note
- Carrots: Choose fresh and bright orange carrots for this recipe. (PS: If you bought carrots with the leaves, don't toss them yet....you could use them to preapre vegan pesto or dal.
- Dates: I used Medjool dates because they are the sweetest in summer and also easily available. Generally any kind is good but the softer and sweeter they are, the better your milkshake will turn out.
- Almond milk: Any plant-based milk options like almond, soy, oats or coconut milk is good for this. I used costco brand almond milk in my recipe.
- Vegan Ice cream: This is optional if you do not get sweet and tender dates. There afe plenty of plant based vanilla ice cream brands out there, if you choose to add ice cream.
How to make this recipe
Soak the dates in ¼ cup of hot water for 10 minutes. Then drain the water and use only soaked pitted dates. Wash, peel the skin and grate or chop carrots.
Heat a pan, add grated or chopped carrots and saute them on low heat with 2 tablespoon of water. Cook until the raw smell of the carrot goes. Do not overcook the carrots. Please leave it to cool.
Grind the carrots with almond milk, soaked dates, and blend until smooth.
In the end, add vegan unsweetened vanilla ice cream(optional) and blend again. Enjoy!
Common questions
Yes, Carrots are delicious when blended with plant-based milk. Naturally, it only doubles the nutritional value of the drink.
Not necessary, but some folks don't like the raw smell of the carrots in drinks or juice. In that case, you could cook them for a while until the raw smell disappears.
In general, carrot milkshakes are not vegan. You don't even get vegan carrot milkshakes in restaurants unless you specifically ask for one. But my recipe uses plant-based ingredients through and through.
Expert tips
- You could use soaked almonds in place of almond milk. Add water and soaked (for 3-5 hour) almonds to get the milk shake texture.
- Soaked dates are a great substitute for refined sugar. If dates are not available to you add 4 tablespoon of sugar.
- Carrot Milkshakes can stay good inside the refrigerator for up to 3 days
- Extra flavor: You could add a pinch of cardamom for extra flavor. Cardamom can be rather strong, so you only need a pinch or two of it.
- Soaking dates is an important step you cannot avoid. If you have this recipe planned out, be sure to soak the dates in room tempearture water for 4 hours.
- A Scoop of vegan Vanilla ice cream can be added as you blend the ingredients to get a creamier consistency. I used unsweetend coconut milk vanilla ice cream when the dates do not turn out sweet.
- If you do not prefer adding ice cream, add ¼ cup of top layer of chilled coconut milk can (only cream part, skip the water).
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📖 Recipe
Carrot Milkshake (Vegan)
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 medium sized carrots - Or 1 cup chopped carrots
- 4 pitted Dates
- 1 ½ cup un sweetened plant based milk - chilled
- ¼ cup filtered water
- 2 scoop vegan vanilla ice cream - if you desired
Instructions
- Soak the dates in ¼ cup of hot water for 10 minutes. Then drain the water and use only soaked pitted dates.4 pitted Dates
- Wash, peel the skin and grate or chop carrots. Heat a pan, add grated or chopped carrots and saute them on low heat with 2 tablespoon of water. Cook until the raw smell of the carrot goes. Do not overcook the carrots. Leave it to cool.2 medium sized carrots
- Grind the carrots with almond milk, soaked dates, and blend until smooth.2 medium sized carrots, 1 ½ cup un sweetened plant based milk, ¼ cup filtered water
- At the end add vegan unsweetened vanilla ice cream(optional) and blend again. Enjoy!2 scoop vegan vanilla ice cream
Process Shot
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Notes
- You could use soaked almonds in place of almond milk. Add water and soaked (for 3-5 hours) almonds to get the milkshake texture.
- Soaked dates are a great substitute for refined sugar. If dates are not available to you add 4 tablespoon of sugar.
- Carrot Milkshakes can stay good inside the refrigerator for up to 3 days
- Extra flavor: You could add a pinch of cardamom for extra flavor. Cardamom can be rather strong, so you only need a pinch or two of it.
- Soaking dates is an important step you cannot avoid. If you have this recipe planned out, be sure to soak the dates in room temperature water for 4 hours.
- A scoop of vegan Vanilla ice cream can be added as you blend the ingredients to get a creamier consistency. I used unsweetened coconut milk vanilla ice cream when the dates do not turn out sweet.
- If you do not prefer adding ice cream, add ¼ cup of top layer of chilled coconut milk can (only cream part, skip the water).
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Nutrition
Nutritional information is an estimation only.
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