Chocolate Smoothie

Chocolate Smoothie

Smoothies have received wide popularity among supporters of healthy eating: thick cocktails based on fresh fruits and vegetables satisfy hunger well and saturate the body with useful elements, while remaining low in calories. However, not always smoothies meet all these requirements. Cooks have learned to turn them into delicious desserts, adding ice cream, cream, chocolate. Calorie drinks from this increases, but their benefits are not reduced. Chocolate smoothie energizes, improves mood and helps to preserve youth, as cocoa bean tiles contain large amounts of antioxidants. Even those who deliberately eliminate harmful dishes from the diet, and with a clear conscience, can indulge in enjoying this cocktail.

Cooking Features

Chocolate smoothie is one of the easiest to prepare dishes. If there is a blender in the house, then an inexperienced cook will cope with the task. However, the knowledge of some subtleties does not hurt the hostess with experience.

  • Chocolate is easier to chop if it is cold. Before diving into a blender, break it into pieces. In accordance with some recipes, chocolate must be melted before mixing with other ingredients. In this case, it is kept in a water bath until it becomes completely liquid.
  • Do not overload the blender by adding all the ingredients to it at once. He will cope with the task better if he chops solid products separately in it, and then mix and beat. Another option is the alternate addition of components and their gradual grinding.
  • If the problem of excess weight is relevant for you, do not abuse chocolate smoothies. You will be filled with a cocktail faster if you eat small spoons. Warm smoothies satiates better than cold ones - consider this moment as well.
  • Calorie smoothies can be slightly reduced using bitter chocolate instead of milk, honey instead of sugar, soft cottage cheese or unsweetened yogurt instead of ice cream.
  • Often bananas are a part of chocolate smoothies. Cocktails with them are tasty, thick. However, this product has a high energy value. If you follow the figure, try to put in a banana cocktail as little as possible.

The aesthetic look of the drink matters. Chocolate smoothies are usually decorated with cinnamon, chocolate chips, cocoa powder, coconut flakes.

Chocolate Banana Smoothie

Composition:

  • dark chocolate - 50 g;
  • banana - 100 g;
  • milk - 0, 25 l;
  • chocolate chips - to taste.

Method of preparation:

  • Break the chocolate into slices, place in a small bowl.
  • Melt to a liquid state.
  • Dilute chocolate with a small amount of milk. Pour into a blender.
  • Peel the banana, cut into slices and place in the blender bowl to the chocolate mixture.
  • Grind bananas by mixing them with chocolate.
  • Add the rest of the milk and whip the shake.

Sprinkle chocolate crumb before serving. It can be replaced with cocoa powder.

Chocolate Cinnamon Smoothie

Composition:

  • milk chocolate - 50 g;
  • banana - 150 g;
  • milk - 0, 4 l;
  • cinnamon - to taste.

Method of preparation:

  • Chilled chocolate break in small pieces and put in a blender bowl.
  • Turn on the unit and chop the treat.
  • Add chocolate peeled and diced banana to chocolate chips. Chunks of fruit before it can be slightly freeze.
  • Grind a banana by mixing with chocolate chips.
  • Add cold milk, cinnamon, whisk.
  • Before serving, sprinkle with cinnamon or put cinnamon stick in a glass.

It is possible to make such a chocolate smoothie even if you do not have a blender. Bananas can be mashed with a fork, chocolate - grate. Then all the ingredients, including milk, combine and beat with a mixer or a whisk.

Chocolate cocoa smoothie with dates

Composition:

  • bananas - 0, 3 kg;
  • dried dates - 4 pcs .;
  • cocoa powder - 10 g;
  • almond milk - 0, 25 l;
  • vanillin - at the tip of the knife.

Method of preparation:

  • Peel bananas, cut into cubes.
  • Soak dates for 10 minutes in warm water, then remove the stones from them. Cut the dates into small pieces.
  • Put dates in the blender bowl, chop them.
  • Add bananas, add cocoa powder, vanillin. Turn bananas into mashed potatoes, mixing them simultaneously with the crushed dates.
  • Pour in the milk, beat the resulting mass with it.

Before serving, you can decorate the cocktail with cocoa powder or coconut flakes. Almond milk in the recipe can be replaced by the usual one, although the taste of the finished cocktail will change a bit because of this, its flavor will not be as bright.

Chocolate Smoothie with Coffee

Composition:

  • black coffee - 70 ml;
  • banana - 1 pc .;
  • dark chocolate - 50 g;
  • sugar - 5 g;
  • milk - 120 ml;
  • cardamom grains - 12 pcs .;
  • nutmeg - a pinch.

Method of preparation:

  • Make coffee without sugar, cool it and strain.
  • Grind to a state of cardamom grain powder. This can be done with a coffee grinder or blender.
  • Heat the milk, put the sugar and chopped chocolate in it.
  • Stir without removing from heat until the chocolate is dissolved.
  • Peel bananas, cut into small pieces of arbitrary shape and turn into mashed potatoes using a blender.
  • Combine banana puree, spices, milk and coffee. Beat until a homogeneous consistency.

Sugar in this recipe can be replaced with honey, this will only make the cocktail healthier and will get additional notes.

Chocolate smoothie with coffee and orange

Composition:

  • milk chocolate - 50 g;
  • banana - 150 g;
  • orange - 0, 2 kg;
  • black coffee - 50 ml;
  • nutmeg - a pinch;
  • cinnamon - a pinch;
  • sugar (optional) - to taste;
  • milk - 150 ml.

Method of preparation:

  • Wash the orange, dry it, cut it in half. Squeeze the juice out of it. Cut the zest into thin and not too long strips.
  • Peel the banana, cut it.
  • Grate or grind chocolate with a blender.
  • Lightly heat the milk, dissolve the chocolate chips in it.
  • Mix milk with sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon.
  • Make coffee and mix it with orange juice.
  • Grind banana in a blender, add milk, whisk.
  • Add the orange-coffee blend, beat again.

Before serving, decorate your drink with orange peel. Smoothies prepared according to this recipe, has a unique taste, exudes a seductive aroma. It is almost impossible to resist not to try it.

Chocolate smoothie with nuts

Composition:

  • dark chocolate - 30 g;
  • walnut kernels - 60 g;
  • cocoa powder - 5 g;
  • milk - 0, 3 l;
  • honey - 20 ml;
  • crushed ice - 100 g.

Method of preparation:

  • Chocolate break.
  • Fry the nuts in a dry frying pan.
  • Put nuts and chocolate in a blender bowl, add cocoa powder, chop.
  • Fill with milk, whisk.
  • Add honey melted to liquid state, crushed ice. Whisk again.

The chocolate-nut cocktail will energize and optimism, strengthen the body's defenses, and improve brain activity.

Chocolate smoothie is not only tasty, but also healthy delicacy. Its only drawback is high calorie content. Often you should not drink it, but occasionally it does not hurt even dieters.

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