This avocado smoothie is lightly sweet, a little like a milkshake, and it turns out a beautiful pale green colour. Frozen bananas add a lovely thick texture (think ‘nice cream’) and blend well with the avocado. There’s a very subtle avocado flavour, but it’s pleasant, not grassy.

You need just six ingredients for this recipe, including the optional sweetener. Sweeten to taste, depending on whether this is dessert or a snack, or breakfast, why not. For some more simple fruit smoothies, try my nectarine smoothie and blueberry peanut butter smoothie.

Ingredients

Ingredient Notes and Substitutions

• Ripe avocado: underripe avocados are too starchy to work properly here – it should give when lightly pressed.
• Banana: overripe for most sweetness, but it is a bit of balance to avoid too much banana flavour. If the skin is really black, they’re probably too ripe for this recipe, and better for banana bread.
• Non-dairy milk: oat milk, or go for cashew milk for an extra creamy shake.
• Coconut yogurt: thick yogurt will make for a creamier milkshake. Try to find Greek-style if possible, and in this case, sweetened is fine. Coconut yogurt could be switched out for another type of yogurt if you prefer. It does add a bit of coconut flavour, which goes well with the other tropical flavours, but other non-dairy yogurt works too.
• Vanilla: powder or bean is ideal, but extract works too (see below).
• Honey: optional, if you want something a bit sweeter. Use maple syrup or another liquid sweetener if preferred. If you want the shake to be completely fruit sweetened, you could add dates instead of a liquid sweetener. I don’t have a really strong blender, so I prefer honey.

Recipe Notes

Vanilla extract may add a very slight alcohol flavour to the smoothie, but it shouldn’t be noticeable. Powder or half a scraped bean will add a stronger vanilla flavour.

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