Showing posts with label Smoothie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Smoothie. Show all posts

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Chocolate Covered Banana Smoothie

In my book one of the recipes is for a Chocolate Covered Strawberry Smoothie. I decided to make this because I like chocolate, strawberries, and smoothies so I mean it had to be good. The recipe called for:


Base
-3 Tbsp raw shelled hemp seeds
-2 cups of water
~you may use any other dairy or non-dairy milk as a base instead


-1/4 cup coconut
~fresh coconut blends best but you can use dried
-1/4 cup raw cacao powder
-1/2 ripe avocado
-1/2 cup fresh or frozen strawberries
-1 cup ice


Place all ingredients in blender and blend till smooth.


So I have never heard of hemp seeds before so I went on Google and it said these seeds are really healthy and that people put them in recipes to make it healthier. I needed to go to the store to grab a few things as well that I didn't have like hemp seeds, cacao powder, avocado, coconut, and some strawberries (pretty much the everything). The store didn't have any hemp seeds so I decided to just leave that out and replace it with almond milk which we already had.
When I started to make the drink I decided to half the recipe cause I was most likely going to be the only one to drink it and my blender is small and wouldn't hold that much.
I blended the stuff together like it says and tasted it. It had way too much cacao powder so I added a few more strawberries and a half of a banana, because I thought it would taste good. I blended it up some more, tasted it, and it tasted like watermelon. I honestly don't know how adding a banana made it taste like that but it was good so I kept drinking it.


This is what the Chocolate Covered Strawberry Smoothie looked like when completely finished.