Creamy Mint Chip Smoothie Recipe
Try this Mint Chip Smoothie! A delicious, quick, and easy breakfast packed with plant protein, greens, and healthy fats. It tastes like a mint chip milkshake, but healthier! Vegan, gluten-free, refined sugar-free.
Servings: 1 serving
Ingredients
- 1 frozen banana make sure it's super ripe!
- 1/2 cup frozen chopped spinach*
- fresh mint leaves to taste I usually use about 3-4, you can also use peppermint extract
- 1/3-1/2 cup non-dairy milk add more as needed
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract or 1/4 vanilla bean scraped
- 1 tbsp cashew butter
- 1/4 cup cacao nibs or dairy free chocolate chips
- optional
- 1 serving vanilla plant protein**
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to blender, except for chocolate chips and cacao nibs. Blend and use a tamper to help ingredients blend, pausing and scraping down sides of blender as needed. If necessary, add additional non-dairy milk in 1/4 cup increments, until a thick, smooth texture is achieved. If you're going for a sip-able smoothie texture, add as much additional liquid as desired.
- Add cacao nibs or chocolate chips to blender and pulse to incorporate. Avoid blending completely so that some of the texture is retained. Alternatively, stir in cacao nibs or chocolate chips without blending at all, or just top your smoothie bowl with them.
- Finally, add any extra toppings as desired and enjoy!
Notes
Secrets to Success
- To make the best smoothie bowl texture, I highly recommend using frozen ingredients. It adds to the thickness and is key to getting a texture that is spoonable and will hold up toppings. Check out my smoothie bowl guide for additional tips to perfect texture.
- Additionally, I'd recommend using a high-powered blender like a Vitamix, but if you don't have one, a food processor typically works well too. If using a Vitamix, a tamper is the best way to help ingredients blend without adding too much liquid.
- The general rule is to start with as little liquid as possible and add more only as needed. You can always add more, but once you add too much, you can't go back! Pausing in between blending to scrape down sides helps as well.
- Fresh spinach also works, but frozen spinach will add to the thick texture if you have it available! You can also freeze your fresh spinach along with your bananas.
- Feel free to add an additional sweetener like maple syrup if desired, though if your bananas are super ripe, you really won’t need any added sweetener.