7 smoothie recipes when it’s too hot to cook breakfast

1. Summer in a cup smoothie

Serving: 2

Cook time: 5 mins

Ingredients:

• 1 1/4 cup frozen raspberries
• 1 large ripe, sliced and frozen banana
• 1/2 cup pomegranate juice
• 3/4 cup orange juice
• 3/4 cup plain unsweetened Almond Breeze almond milk

2. Berry superfood smoothie bowl

Serving: 1

Cook time: 5 mins

Ingredients:

• 1 cup mixed frozen berries*
• 4 ice cubes
• Splashes of light coconut milk (enough to get blender moving)
• 1 tablespoon almond butter
• Handful of spinach
• Optional: 1 teaspoon acai powder
• Optional: maple syrup or sweetener of your choice, to taste

1. Place the frozen berries, ice cubes, coconut milk, almond butter and spinach in a blender. Add acai powder, if using. Blend until smooth, adding additional coconut milk as needed. (As little as necessary so your smoothie will be thick). Taste and add maple syrup or sweetener of choice, if desired. Blend again.
2. Pour into two bowls and top with hemp seeds, coconut flakes, blueberries, and dried strawberries.

3. Bobby Flay’s layered smoothie

Serving: 4

Cook time: 1 hour

Ingredients:

Mango-Peach:

• 2 very ripe mangoes, peeled, pitted and diced
• 2 very ripe peaches, peeled, pitted and diced
• 1 cup mango or peach nectar
• 1 cup 2-percent Greek yogurt
• Lime juice
• Honey

Strawberry-Banana:

• 2 pints ripe strawberries, hulled and halved
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 frozen ripe bananas
• 1 cup 2-percent Greek yogurt
• Lemon juice
• Finely diced mango and peach, for garnish
• Finely diced mango and peach, for garnish
• Finely diced strawberries, for garnish

Instructions:

1. For the mango-peach smoothie: Add the mangoes, peaches, nectar and yogurt to a blender and blend until smooth. Add lime juice and honey to taste if needed. Pour into a pitcher and refrigerate until very cold.
2. For the strawberry-banana smoothie: Combine the strawberries and sugar in a bowl and let macerate for 30 minutes in the refrigerator. Add the macerated strawberries and some of the juices, the frozen banana and yogurt to a blender and blend until smooth. Add lemon juice to taste if needed. Pour into a pitcher and refrigerate until very cold.
3. Fill each glass half way with the mango-peach and then fill to the top with the strawberry-banana. Mix together the finely diced mango, peach and strawberries in a small bowl and top each glass with some of the fruit for garnish.

4. The best green smoothie

Serving: 1

Cook time: 5 mins

Ingredients:

• 1 cup frozen pineapple chunks
• 1/2 cup frozen mango chunks
• 1/2 medium ripe avocado
• 1 inch knob of ginger, peeled
• 2 cups organic spinach
• 1 cup unsweetened almond milk, plus more as necessary
• Optional: 1 tbsp hemp seeds or flaxseed meal

5. Blueberry muffin smoothie

Serving: 1

Cook time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups frozen blueberries
• 3 tablespoons whole rolled oats
• 3 soft medjool dates
• Handful of fresh spinach
• 1/2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• Pinch of salt
• 1 tablespoon Whole Foods Market plant-based fit protein
• 6 ice cubes
• 3/4 to 1 cup almond milk or light coconut milk, or as needed to blend
• optional garnishes: fresh blueberries, oats, crushed almonds

6. Oatmeal smoothie

Serving: 1

Cook time: 5 mins

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup old-fashioned oats or quick oats
• 1 banana, chopped into chunks and frozen
• 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk
• 1 tbsp creamy peanut butter
• 1/2 tbsp pure maple syrup – plus additional to taste
• 1/2 tbsp pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 tbsp ground cinnamon
• 1/8 tbsp kosher salt

Easy 5 minute banana smoothie

Serving: 1

Cook time: 5 mins

Ingredients:

• 1 banana
• 1/2 orange, peeled and quartered
• 1/3 cup Greek yogurt
• 1/4 cup water or milk (dairy or non-dairy)
• 1 to 2 tsps honey, optional

1. Roughly chop banana and orange quarters then add to a blender. Top with yogurt and the water (or milk).
2. Turn blender on and blend until creamy and smooth. Taste then adjust with honey if needed.

If you’re looking for something to carry your smoothie in (or share with kiddos), we love these:

Welly traveler

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EKOBO Bamboo kids cup set

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Rae’s Roots Mama herbal supplement

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