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Smoothie bowl recipes

Smoothie bowls are popular breakfast items that have been sweeping the nation.

Smoothie bowls can be either healthy breakfasts or quick and easy afternoon snacks that are packed full of nutrients and are sure to keep you energized all day long. Smoothie bowls are essentially smoothies that are placed into a bowl and then eaten with a spoon. These smoothie bowls often have healthy, tasty, and super satisfying toppings such as various fruits, grains, and granolas as well.

Along with being absolutely delicious, smoothie bowls can be an opportunity to create extremely healthy breakfasts and bring your creativity into the mix as well. Whether you end up pairing your smoothies with green veggies and embrace the bitterness, or whether you end up going with a sweeter bowl with berries or chocolate, the possibilities and options for your smoothie bowls are endless.

This article is a compilation of our favorite smoothie bowl variations that you are free to steal or remix as your own. For all of these recipes, youre going to need a blender, and if you want to make it even easier, pick up a scoopie as well for the ones that have protein powder. If the mixture ends up getting stuck in the blender, stop the blender entirely, shake it, or use a soon and mix it around if needed.

You can also add additional liquid to the mix if the smoothie begins getting to thick to move properly and freely. If youre mixture is too thin, you can also add additional ice cubes to the mix that will make the texture much thicker than it was originally. You will learn that when made properly, these smoothie bowls are very filling and will satisfy your sweet needs.

Acai Smoothie Bowl

Try this recipe: Acai Smoothie Bowl

This recipe, when followed to a T, will yield about 2 and a half to 3 cups of smoothie which will be sufficient for both one meal or two snacks. When the smoothie bowl is made, feel free to to the smoothie bowl with fresh fruit or granola for added flavor and crunch.

Ingredients: Medium-sized frozen banana, frozen berries, frozen chopped spinach, almond milk, almond butter, acai powder, ground flaxseed, maple syrup, salt

Peach-Raspberry Smoothie Bowl

Try the recipe: Peach-Raspberry Smoothie Bowl

This smoothie bowl combines delicious frozen peaches and raspberries to give you a blast of flavor like none you have tasted before. The summer flavors will take you right back to when you were a kid, and the heartiness of the meal will keep you full and focused for hours on end.

Ingredients: Frozen raspberries, frozen peach slices, plain whole-milk yogurt, medium zucchini, ground flaxseed, raw honey, vanilla extract, pinch of salt, toppings of your choice

Calories: 141

Super-Green Smoothie Bowl

Try this recipe: Super-Green Smoothie Bowl

With bananas and hempseeds working together in perfect unison, this smoothie bowl has a creamy texture that is sure to leave you wanting to make another day, after day, after day. But not only does this smoothie bowl taste fantastic, but its also filled with highly nutritious foods such as spinach, kiwis, and fresh ginger

Ingredients: Ripe banana, frozen chopped spinach, fresh pineapple cubes, coconut water, kiwis, hempseed, salt, fresh ginger, raw honey, toppings of your choice.

Calories: 230

Acai Bowl With Berries and Banana

Try this recipe: Superfood Smoothie Bowl

this smoothie bowl was created by an australian nutritionist named lola berry, and yes, that is her real name. In lolas energy packed bowl, youre going to be munching on things like blueberries, chia seeds, acai, banana, and much more. One thing to keep in mind is that the more chia seeds you eat, the thicker the smoothie is going to be. Chia seeds tend to absorb a lot of water compared to their size and turn foods into a thicker, more jelly like substance.

Ingredients: Frozen blueberries, frozen banana, unsweetened acai powder, almond milk, chia seeds, fresh strawberries for topping (optional), granola for topping (optional), raw honey for topping (optional)

From The Happy Cookbook, Copyright 2016 by Lola Berry, reprinted with permission of St. Martin’s Press, LLC.

Chocolate-Strawberry Smoothie Bowl

Try this recipe: Chocolate-Strawberry Smoothie Bowl

Up until this point we have been focusing on smoothies with sweet ingredients or accessory ingredients that work well with smoothie ingredients. This smoothie is a surprise. One of the ingredients in this smoothie is believe it or not, cauliflower.

When blended into smoothie bowls, the cauliflower goes unnoticed while adding some helpful texture and blasting the smoothie with tons of fiber, vitamins, and C and K as well.

Ingredients: Banana, frozen cauliflower florets, strawberries, well-shaken canned coconut milk, coconut water, raw cacao powder, almond butter, pinch of salt, raw honey, toppings of your choice

Calories: 288

Chocolate-Cherry Smoothie Bowl

For all of you chocolate addicts out there, this is the smoothie bowl that you have been waiting for on this list. if youve been waiting for an excuse to sneak a little chocolate into your breakfast every morning, then this is it. If youd like to enhance the flavor of this dish as well, dont be afraid to add a couple inches of salt to bring to life the flavors that are currently inside of the dish.

Ingredients: 

1 frozen banana
1 cup frozen sweet cherries
2 Tbsp. flax-chia blend 
1 Tbsp. MCT oil
2 Tbsp. raw cacao powder 
Top with hemp seeds and dark chocolate

Green Monster Smoothie Bowl

For a massive energy blast, eat a smoothie bowl that contains a large amiunt of veggies. paired with MCT oil, this veggie packed, oil infused smoothie bowl is sure to give you energy and focus for hours on end. If you do not have any mct oil on you, which is derived from coconuts, you can also use coconut oil, nut butter, avocado, or another type of oil as a substitute.

Ingredients:

1 frozen banana
1 lightly packed cup torn greens (such as spinach or kale)
2 oz. chopped pineapple, fresh or frozen (or 1/2 cup frozen mango chunks)
1 Tbsp honey.
1 tsp. greens powder, optional (such as Sunfood Sun Is Shining powder; $35, amazon.com)
2 Tbsp. hemp seeds
1 Tbsp. MCT oil
Top with diced pineapple

Banana-Nut Smoothie Bowl

if you tend to love banana nut muffins and banana bread but find yourself feeling guilt with all the gluten and sugar inside of them, then youre going to love this smoothie bowl recipe. Although we recommend adding nut milk to this recipe, feel free to either use regular milk or substitute with your own nut milk as well.

Ingredients:

1 frozen banana
2 Tbsp. almond butter
1 tsp. honey
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Top with a few slices of fresh banana and granola or nuts

Berry Good Smoothie Bowl

MCT oil ($20, amazon.com) is the same source of fat that goes into another trendy item: Bulletproof coffee. You need fat in your smoothie bowl to boost both flavor and satiety, and help with nutrient absorption. You can toss in MCT or coconut oil, but nut butter and avocado are also great choices.

Ingredients:

1 frozen banana
1 cup frozen mixed berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries)
2 Tbsp. hemp seeds
1 Tbsp. MCT oil
1 tsp. honey
Top with berries

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Pina Colada Smoothie Bowl

Aside from being one of the worlds most renowned superfoods known for their hyper nutritious qualities, hem seeds also have the power to make smoothie bowls super creamy without needing to use any milk at all. This is also a smoothie bowl that you can throw protein powder if you so lease. Be warned that when adding some type of vegan protein powder, the texture of the smoothie may change depending on how much protein powder you throw in there.

Ingredients:

1 frozen banana
1 cup frozen mango chunks
2 oz. pineapple, chopped (frozen or fresh)
1 Tbsp. coconut oil
2 Tbsp. hemp seeds
1 tsp. ground ginger
1 tsp. honey
Top with unsweetened coconut