Of all the fruits, banana satisfies hunger best, and therefore many people use it when they need a quick bite. However, the snack will be much tastier and healthier if you make a banana smoothie. This thick drink has a pleasant aroma, well satisfies hunger and it turns out very tasty. So a banana smoothie can successfully replace not only snacks, but also dessert.
Cooking Features
If you have a blender, it is easy to make a banana smoothie. However, in order for it to be really tasty and healthy, it makes sense to use the recommendations of experienced chefs.
- Banana smoothies have a pleasant color and taste only immediately after cooking. After a while it can darken, get unpleasant sourness. For this reason, it is recommended to make a banana smoothie just before serving.
- If you want to make a soft drink of bananas, it doesn’t hurt to add ice to it during cooking. Ice is added crushed and at the last stage of preparation, when all the ingredients are crushed and well mixed.
- If you want fruit slices to come in smoothies, do not whip the cocktail for too long.
- Bananas contain a lot of sugars in the composition, for this reason it is not always necessary to add sugar to smoothies. If you follow the figure, you better refrain from adding sugar at all or replace it with honey.
- Use ripe but not spoiled bananas for smoothies. Not only the taste of the drink, but also its beneficial properties depend on it.
There are not many contraindications to the use of a banana smoothie, but there are some. In particular, bananas are not recommended for people with diabetes. For this reason, those who the doctor recommended to refrain from eating bananas will have to give up the banana smoothie.
Classic banana smoothie recipe (with kefir and honey)
Composition:
- bananas - 0, 3 kg;
- kefir - 0, 5 l;
- honey - 20 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Wash and peel bananas. Cut the flesh into small pieces, place it in the blender bowl.
- Fill the banana pieces with kefir.
- Melt the honey, pour it into the rest of the ingredients.
- Turn on the blender and beat the food until the drink has the consistency of jelly.
- If desired, add a handful of crushed ice and whisk the drink again.
Spill the banana smoothie in glasses, it can be decorated. The best decoration will be chopped nuts. Chocolate chips are also great for decorating banana smoothies and give it new flavors.
Banana-Milk Smoothie
Composition:
- bananas - 0, 45 kg;
- milk - 0, 75 l;
- sugar - 60 g.
Method of preparation:
- Bananas, after peeling, cut into medium sized pieces, put them into a beater.
- Pour three glasses of chilled milk.
- Add sugar. It will be even better if before crushing a cocktail you grind granulated sugar to a state of powder. This can be done with a coffee grinder.
- Beat all together with a high-speed immersion blender or mixer.
It is best to serve banana-milk smoothies with a straw. If desired, you can add crushed ice or ice cream. A banana smoothie made according to this recipe resembles a thick milkshake. Drinking it is a pleasure. Such a delicacy not only quenches thirst and diminishes the feeling of hunger, but also improves mood.
Banana oatmeal smoothies
Composition:
- bananas - 0, 6 kg;
- kefir - 1 l;
- oatmeal - 90 g;
- honey - 20 ml;
- fresh or frozen raspberries or other berries - 20-40 g.
Method of preparation:
- Retract the berry, wash it and put it in the freezer. Frozen berries in preliminary preparation does not need.
- Grind the oatmeal to a fine crumb.
- Put honey in the blender bowl.
- Peel the bananas, cut their flesh into small pieces and put them in a blender.
- Whisk while crushing.
- Put the banana-honey mass into a container in which it is convenient to mix the products using a mixer or an immersion blender.
- Pour the oatmeal, pour kefir.
- Mix everything until smooth.
Before serving, sprinkle a banana smoothie with frozen berries - it will decorate the drink, give it additional flavors and make it more useful. Thick cocktail, prepared according to this recipe, you can even eat with spoons. He is able to replace not only snacks, but also breakfast.
Banana-Pineapple Smoothie and Kiwi
Composition:
- bananas - 0, 45 kg;
- Kiwi - 0, 2 kg;
- fresh or canned pineapple - 150 g;
- pineapple juice - 100 ml;
- orange juice - 0, 25 l;
- ice crumb - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Peel the bananas, cut them into circles and place them in the bowl of the blender.
- Peel kiwi, cut into small slices, send to bananas.
- Pineapples cut into small cubes and combine with other fruits.
- Pour fruit with two types of juice and whisk until smooth.
- Add crushed ice to the fruit cocktail and whisk again.
It remains to be poured into glasses and served to the table. The taste of this smoothie will appeal to those who love tropical fruits. This drink is not only tasty, but also useful, because it contains a huge amount of vitamins. Such a vitamin smoothie is especially good to drink in the winter when the immune system needs to be strengthened, and ordinary seasonal fruits and berries are less accessible than tropical fruits.
Banana-Strawberry Smoothie
Composition:
- bananas - 0, 3 kg;
- strawberries - 100 g;
- yogurt - 0, 35 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Prepare the strawberries if it is fresh: the berry should be sorted, washed, removed by the sepals. Frozen strawberries do not need preliminary preparation, they do not even need to be thawed.
- Peeling bananas, chop them with a knife.
- Fold the bananas and strawberries into the blender bowl.
- Fill with yogurt. If you are using fresh strawberries, yogurt can be chosen without fruit filling to reduce the overall caloric content of the dish. Frozen strawberries have a more sour taste, so when making a smoothie from it, yogurt is better to take a sweet one. The best filling will be strawberries, but you can use any berry or fruit.
- Whisk it all together until a thick cocktail with a smooth consistency.
Banana and strawberry is an ideal duet, it is recognized by many gourmets. Therefore, a banana-strawberry smoothie will almost certainly please you and your guests.
Banana-apple smoothie
Composition:
- apple - 0, 2 kg;
- bananas - 0, 3 kg;
- white or sweet yogurt - 0, 25 l.
Method of preparation:
- Apple wash, peel, cut the seed box out of it.
- Cut the apple flesh into cubes, fold into the blender bowl.
- Remove the peel from the bananas, cut the flesh into slices, send it to the apples.
- Pour the yogurt into the blender bowl. If you have sweet varieties of apples, yogurt can be taken without a filler. If you prefer apples tart, it is advisable to choose a sweet yogurt with banana or apple filling.
- Beat the fruit with the yogurt, turning it into a homogeneous mass.
The apple-banana smoothie includes affordable foods. It can be done at any time of the year. At the same time, the drink contains many vitamins, well satisfies hunger.
Banana-Curd Smoothie
Composition:
- bananas - 0, 3 kg;
- cottage cheese - 0, 3 kg;
- milk - 0, 25 liters.
Method of preparation:
- Coarsely chop the banana flesh, mash with cottage cheese with a fork.
- Fill the curd-banana mass with milk and whisk with a mixer or blender.
This variant of banana smoothie is among the most useful. In this form, the curd will be eaten even by one who does not love him too much. In particular, a banana-cottage cheese smoothie can be offered to children - this variant of breakfast or an afternoon snack will surely appeal to them.
Banana smoothies are good for satisfying hunger, so they are suitable for breakfast or snack. The taste of the cocktail is so good that it can be served for dessert.
