Green Smoothie Recipe
on Dec 22, 2024, Updated Jan 19, 2025
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Raise your hand if you want to feel energized, satisfied, and glowing? 🙋🏻♀️ This Green Smoothie Recipe is such an easy, wholesome way to get a solid dose of protein and fresh greens. It tastes incredible and takes less than 5 minutes to make! 👊 Skeptical? The drink may be green in color, but you can hardly taste the spinach. 🌱 Same with the protein powder—thanks to creamy milk (I prefer almond) and the natural sweetness of banana, the protein powder flavor and texture is nicely masked. If perhaps you overdo it on the sweets and treats this holiday season 🤫, this is the perfect recipe to get back on track with feeling healthy and nourishing your body; a detox, if you will. It’s an excellent snack or meal for weight loss or a New Year’s resolution to eat less processed, more nutrient-dense foods.
Why You’ll Love Green Smoothie Recipe
If you’re looking for a new healthy breakfast or snack, this creamy, satisfying smoothie is such an easy and delicious recipe. ☀️ It’s surprisingly easy to make a smoothie that tastes incredible and is chockfull of nutrition: protein, fiber, healthy fats, and tons of vitamins. 💪Plus, there are so many ways to customize this recipe, based on your taste preferences or what you already have in your kitchen. I love that this smoothie uses only 5 ingredients and it can even be meal-prepped ahead of time. ⌚️
How to Prepare
🥬 To a blender, add: 12 oz almond milk, 1 scoop of vanilla protein powder, 1/4 of a banana, 1 tablespoon of chia seeds, and 1 cup of fresh spinach.
🧊 Blend until smooth and serve over ice!
Nonna’s Tip 🍌
This smoothie recipe doesn’t have any added sugars, all the sweetness comes from the banana. Remember, that the riper the banana is, the sweeter the smoothie will be!
Variations and Substitutions for this Green Smoothie Recipe
- Feel free to use any other plant-based milk, such as oat milk, soy milk, or coconut milk. Dairy milk will work as well.
- Instead of vanilla protein powder, you could also use chocolate, 🍓 strawberry, or plain.
- Instead of spinach, you could also try using fresh kale in this recipe.
- You can add some sweetness to this with a bit of 🍁 maple syrup, agave syrup, honey, or even stevia.
- Feel free to add additional ingredients here: flax seeds, a tablespoon of 🥜 nut butter, or fresh berries would be delish.
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Make Ahead Tips
I don’t love making smoothies ahead of time because they tend to separate and never taste as great as fresh. But, there are a few tips you can use to make it a little easier on you in the mornings when prepping your smoothies. For this 🥬 Green Smoothie recipe, I like to have my 🍌 bananas and spinach all pre-portioned and stored in the 🧊 freezer so they’re ready to pop into the blender. You can also pre-portion the dry ingredients (the protein powder and chia seeds), so all you need to do is add the milk and blend.
Best Served With
- Serve this Green Smoothie Recipe for breakfast with your favorite 🥚 egg dishes such as Cheesy Eggs, Baked Feta Eggs, or Poach Eggs.
- Serve alongside a breakfast protein such as 🥓 bacon, turkey bacon, or my Homemade Breakfast Sausage Recipe.
- Serve this alongside a bowl of fresh 🍓 fruit and yogurt.
Common Questions
Yes, you can substitute almond milk with other plant-based milk, like oat milk, soy milk, or coconut milk. Dairy milk will work as well if you prefer.
You can use whatever flavor you love: chocolate or strawberry works well with banana.
You could also make this Green Smoothie recipe with kale.
Fresh is definitely better in this smoothie recipe. Frozen spinach has been blanched so it makes the smoothie too watery. You can freeze fresh (unblanched) spinach and use that.
It’s best to enjoy this smoothie fresh for the best texture and flavor. However, you can prepare the ingredients in advance and store them in the fridge or freezer so they’re ready to go when you are.
Yes, you can add some maple syrup, agave syrup, honey, or even stevia.
Feel free to add extras like berries, flax seeds, or a tablespoon of nut butter for added flavor, texture, and nutrients.
Green Smoothie Recipe
Ingredients
- 12 oz almond milk
- 1 scoop protein powder , vanilla
- ¼ banana
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds
- 1 cup spinach , fresh is ideal
Instructions
- Add all of the ingredients to a blender.
- Blend until smooth and serve over ice!
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
LOVE this quick, easy, and delicious recipe. This is now on consistant repeat in the household!
LOVE it, JW! Such a good one to have in rotation. 💗
Totally hooked on this recipe now! Just tried it this morning and it was AWESOME! Quick, easy and nutritious! AND it only being 5 ingredients makes this mama’s life so much easier! Also, great for those bananas that are getting ready to go bad! Highly recommend!