Spring is true right here! We’ve thrown off the winter heaters, dusted off the blender and have been whipping up smoothies for breakfast, dessert and anytime in between.
Banana smoothies are about as simple as it would get. Throw some bananas in a blender, add milk or a dairy varied, whizz for 30 seconds and there you go! Delicious.
There are just a few little secrets and techniques and methods to getting banana smoothie perfection though:
• to get a deliciously thick, icy-cold milk-shake consistency to your smoothie, freeze the bananas first;
• the riper the banana the additional delicious the smoothie. So don’t chuck these black bananas throughout the fridge, bung them throughout the freezer to make smoothies the next morning – you’ll not regret it.
The easy approach to freeze bananas
Slice your bananas into medium-thick slices, lay them on a baking sheet and put throughout the freezer in a single day. Inside the morning each add them to the blender to make your smoothie or change proper right into a resealable meals bag and put once more throughout the freezer until you need them. You could keep bananas this vogue for as a lot as three months.
1. The Major Banana Smoothie
For one big glass or two small glasses:
1 banana, frozen and decrease into chunks
1 cup of milk or dairy-free equal i.e. almond or soya milk
Method:
Whizz the banana and milk in a blender until completely blended. Serve immediately.
2. Banana Oat Smoothie
To supply barely dietary oomph to a banana smoothie, add a tablespoon of oatmeal/porridge oats to the blender with the banana and milk. Flip the blender as a lot as its highest setting for barely longer than you will for a standard smoothie, and the porridge oats flip beautifully creamy.
Packed crammed with fibre and protein, oats will help flip your smoothie into one factor with barely additional endurance – wonderful for the kids’ breakfast.
3. Berry Burst Banana Smoothie
For Berry Burst add a handful of latest strawberries and/or raspberries to the frozen banana smoothie base recipe. I used up to date berries for this; do you have to’re using frozen keep in mind that the top outcome might have barely additional of a liquid consistency. Do that with or with out the oats – delicious each method.
4. Peanut-Banana Smoothie
One factor about bananas and peanuts collectively is in order that correct; the kids really cherished this one, as did I! Two or three generous tablespoons of peanut butter added to the underside banana smoothie on this recipe does merely the trick.
I’ve tried this with a grocery retailer own-brand peanut butter and it’s excellent. Nevertheless do you have to’re concerned about added sugar and likewise palm oil in quite a few the grocery retailer nut butters, then there in the intervening time are numerous producers that have no added sugar or salt and are gluten-free. There are moreover palm-oil free producers on the market.
The number of strategies you probably can mix up a banana smoothie are limitless. Add chocolate powder or cacao, blueberries or tropical fruits.
You may too freeze the banana smoothie mixture in lolly moulds for a delicious spring or summer season season dessert.