Banana Almond Smoothie
Total Time
5 minutes
Prep Time
3 mins
Cook Time
2 mins
Rating
4.9 out of 5 stars
(26)
Ingredients
1 cup
- 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!)
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Preparation
Step 1
Toss all the ingredients into a blender, in the order listed.
Step 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).
Step 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.
Step 4
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Chef's 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.
