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Banana Almond Smoothie

  • Author: Cookie and Kate
  • Prep Time: 3 mins
  • Cook Time: 2 mins
  • Total Time: 5 minutes
  • Yield: 1 cup
  • Diet: Vegan

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This healthy banana almond smoothie recipe makes a delicious, creamy treat! Recipe yields 1 cup.

Ingredients

  • ½ cup almond milk or milk of choice
  • 1 medium-to-large frozen banana (break your bananas into one-inch chunks before freezing)
  • 2 tablespoons almond butter
  • 1 ½ tablespoons flax seed
  • Optional: ¼ to 1 teaspoon maple syrup or honey
  • ⅛ teaspoon almond extract, to taste (or vanilla extract, but the almond extract makes the smoothie taste almost like candy!)

Instructions

  1. Toss all the ingredients into a blender, in the order listed. 
  2. Blend on low until the blender gains traction, then ramp up to the highest speed as soon as possible (or if your blender has a smoothie function, that will work well).
  3. Taste, and if you would like a sweeter smoothie, add more maple syrup, or for more prominent almond flavor, add up to ⅛ teaspoon more almond extract, then blend again. Enjoy while cold. 

Notes

Adapted from the New York Times Recipes for Health.

Change it up: For more protein, add 1 scoop of vanilla protein powder (I used Natural Force Vanilla Whey). For a caffeinated smoothie, add ¼ cup cold brew concentrate. For a peanut butter banana smoothie, substitute peanut butter for the almond butter and vanilla extract for the almond extract.

Nutrition

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