Raspberry Banana Avocado Smoothie (paleo, vegan options)
Avocado adds an awesome creaminess to this refreshing and healthy raspberry banana smoothie!
First of all, I promise you can’t taste the avocado! It magically just blends in with the other fruit. If you want to taste the avocado, just add more avocado and less banana. That way it stays just as creamy. And for a dairy-free and vegan version, leave out the yogurt and use almond milk or soy milk or whatever you like! It’ll still be pretty thick without the yogurt.
I got the idea of adding avocados to my smoothies from The Baltic Maid. Thanks to her for making it easier for me to eat green stuff! This Healthy Green Smoothie also looks great.
This isn’t much of a recipe. Just throw stuff in the food processor or blender and that’s it. Add more fruit, less fruit, different fruit, it doesn’t matter. :) And this raspberry avocado smoothie keeps well for about 24 hours, in case you can’t finish it all at once. I usually double the recipe and love having one ready as soon as I roll out of bed the next morning!
In this raspberry banana avocado smoothie, you get several servings of fruit (I wish avocados counted as vegetables!) and yogurt. It’s an awesome way to start off the day in a healthy way or to cool off after a day of running around outside!
Have you ever made a smoothie with avocados? I’d love to hear what fruit you used, if you did! I’m kind of in love with avocado smoothies that don’t taste like avocados at the moment. :) I think my brain is programmed to automatically programmed to dislike and reject anything that tastes “green.” So I need to hide the “green” taste, if that makes any sense!
Raspberry Banana Avocado Smoothie (paleo, vegan options)
Ingredients
- 1 cup (120 grams) raspberries fresh or frozen
- 1/2 (101 grams) avocado
- 1 (136 grams) large banana peeled and chopped into 1/2″ pieces and frozen
- 1 cup (245 grams) plain yogurt or coconut/cashew yogurt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- whatever sweetener you like
- additional milk optional
Instructions
- Blend all ingredients in your blender, food processor or with an immersion blender. My blender can’t handle recipes without lots of liquid, so I have to do this one in the food processor.
- Add sweetener to taste. If you don’t add the banana you will definitely have to add some sweetener to this smoothie. With the banana, I never add any sweetener.
- If the smoothie is too thick for you, add milk.
I like smoothies but I don't like cow's milk so I always substitute mine with almond milk. Fresh berries here in Italy get moldy very fast. It's pretty normal to see them. I just finished whipping up a drink with raspberries myself. I was afraid of the molds too. Nice to have found your blog Erin! Thanks for stopping by mine.
Sonia – Haha. I'm actually drinking another one right now (this time with orange juice!) and they always come out prettily pink. Never green. Maybe it's the raspberries! I hope you enjoy it. :)
OK, how did you get your smoothie to be so pretty and pink after adding avocado to it? Are the avocados there pink, by any chance?
This looks really good, Erin. I know what I'm having for brekkie tomorrow!
Excellent!
Jose – You have a point but frozen spinach is just terrible! I don't mind frozen fruit, though. Or frozen anything really. Just not frozen spinach. :)
A lot of times, frozen fruits taste better and are better for you because they are picked at the right time and processed right away. As opposed to the produce that makes it to conventional supermarkets. Now, truly fresh is another ball of wax altogether..
oh yum, this sounds soooo delicious to me. i'm on a huge smoothie kick recently so i'll definitely be trying this. thanks for sharing!
Baking Serendipity – I hope you like it! It makes them nice and creamy. And thanks for your spinach advice! I might try it if I build up the courage. Cream cheese, mozzarella and parmesan are so perfect already… and then spinach? I don't know. Maybe I'll add a tiny bit to a tiny section the next time I make lasagna and see if I can taste it. :)
Avocado in a smoothie is such a great idea! I love adding spinach to my smoothies, but will definitely change up my regular routine with avocado this week :) PS: One of my favorite simple meals is combining frozen spinach with cream cheese, mozzarella cheese and parmesan cheese. I use it as the filling for chicken roll-ups and serve it topped with spaghetti sauce. Maybe it will get you to love spinach? :)
Cassie and Catalina – Thank you! :)
Katie – Thanks! You can really throw an avocado in any fruit smoothie and you can't taste it. It's a great way to get a serving of avocado for avocado haters. :)
I adore smoothies! I've made veggie smoothies but still have yet to make them with healthy avocado! I need to try this! Beautiful Erin!!
I love to use avocado in smoothies, it makes them so creamy!
I am all about this, Erin! I love smoothies and I love the addition of the avocado here. It looks so pretty too!
Baltic Maid – Thanks! I hope you like the raspberry version. :)
Heidi – Wow! Hi! :) I'm honored that you took the time to leave a comment given your probable time constraint. I thought that fresh spinach was super common in North America. Not that I ever tried buying it. And thanks… I like the color too. :)
Katrina – Thanks!
London Bakes – Thank you! It's nice how the green just disappears, isn't it? :)
Amanda – Finally I'm not alone! It seems like strawberries are in season everywhere else and I've been so jealous. The original recipe uses fresh strawberries so I'm sure it'd be fantastic. I hope you like it!
Miryam – Me too! I wouldn't be able to use fresh berries in a smoothie. I like to eat them plain! Fresh strawberries would be okay, but other berries are so expensive I'd never put them in a smoothie. I hope you enjoyed your smoothie. :)
Wow. I am pretty sure frozen spinach would taste really awful in a smoothy, not the same at all as fresh spinach because with fresh spinach you couldn't even know the difference at all!!
I have just actually made an organic mixed berry and banana smoothie myself. I always have tons of organic frozen berries in the freezer which makes the job lots, lots easier :-)
Your smoothie looks really creamy and yummy……
Yum! Some of my favorite things all blended together. When strawberry season finally arrives around here I might try this with some fresh ones. Frozen fruit is perfect for smoothies though. Frozen spinach on the other hand- not so nice!
Such a pretty pink colour!
This sounds like quite a treat. I'm big into breakfast smoothies, so it'll be nice to try this for a switch up. Yum!
Looks delicious! I love how pretty pink it is :D And avocado in smoothies is so awesome – it gets so creamy. Mmmm.
I know what you mean about spinach – the frozen stuff is nasty! I have no tricks to make it taste any better, I just buy fresh when I can which means I don't get it all the time :( Too bad because the fresh stuff is awesome in smoothies(meaning, you can't taste it, haha)
I am so glad you liked it… :-D
I love raspberries. As soon as I have some around, I'll give your version a try. Looks great!!!