Healthy Recipes
26 Smoothie Recipes
Want a quick breakfast on the go, a healthy snack, or smart way to sneak in veggies? Just whir up a blenderful of smoothies with these ideas from the Taste of Home Test Kitchen, our readers and our Facebook friends!
A.M. Power
Start with a base of 1 cup flavored kefir (a healthy probiotic drink in the dairy or natural foods case), and ½ cup juice of your choice. Add baby spinach, a small avocado, protein powder if you like it, and ½ cup or more of frozen berries.
Fresh Peach
My smoothies use vanilla almond milk, orange juice, peaches, Greek yogurt and a surprise ingredient: English cucumber.
—Angela Lively,Conroe, TX
Monkey Around
Give chocolate milk a whir in the blender with a ripe banana and a handful of ice cubes. It’s a great treat for kids—that you’ll actually feel good giving them.
Green Goodness
I make smoothies with frozen or fresh fruit, kefir, spinach and unsweetened almond milk, plus flax and chia seeds. Yummy!
—Jami Kruse, Baltic, SD
Peach Melba
I use frozen peaches, raspberries, yogurt, peach nectar, wheat germ and vanilla to make my smoothie taste like this old-school dessert.
—Mari Lizzt, Kalamazoo, MI
Cantaloupe
Peel and cube half a cantaloupe; blend with ½ cup each vanilla yogurt and orange juice. Add a few ice cubes and more juice if needed to get things moving.
Strawberry-Banana
I make a smoothie almost every day for my oldest granddaughter using 1 banana, 1/2 cup strawberry yogurt, a splash of coconut water and a handful of frozen strawberries.
—Don Mellott, Durand, MI
Rich Pumpkin Pie
Blend 1 can pumpkin, two 5-oz. cans evaporated milk, 1 banana and 1 cup orange juice with 1/3 cup brown sugar, ½ tsp. pumpkin pie spice and ¼ tsp. cinnamon.
Sweet Potato-Cherry
There’s nothing like a blend of sweet potatoes, banana and cherries.
—Brenda Nora, Memphis, TN
Blueberry Blast
Blend 1 cup frozen blueberries with 1 small avocado, 1 clementine and 2 cups blueberry kefir. Add 1 tsp. nutrient-rich powdered spirulina or chlorella if you like it.
California Dream
Pulse 2 cups ice cubes in a blender with 1 cup milk, 1 cup vanilla yogurt, ½ cup honey and a 12-oz. can of thawed orange juice concentrate.
—Sonya Labbe, West Hollywood, CA
Grandma’s
To a base of equal parts milk and yogurt, add 1 ripe banana and 1-2 Tbsp. peanut butter and ground flaxseed. Sweeten with honey.
Pineapple-Coconut
Blend a can of coconut milk with 1 cup frozen pineapple, ½ cup frozen mango and ¼ cup shredded coconut. To sweeten, blend in 1 or 2 pitted dried dates or honey to taste.
—Gunjan Dudani, Bellevue, WA
Broccoli-Berry
My favorite smoothie includes frozen broccoli, frozen berries, a banana, kiwi, Greek yogurt, fruit juice of some kind and hemp protein powder.
—Lisa Kydyk McGann, Peterborough, ON
Cucumber-Melon
Place a peeled seeded cucumber, 1-1/2 cups honeydew, 1 cup each Greek yogurt and crushed ice in a blender with honey to taste and fresh mint, if you have it. Add a small avocado to make it extra creamy.
—Crystal Schlueter, Babbitt, Minnesota
Mango-Carrot
You can’t go wrong with frozen mango chunks, almonds, cinnamon, raw carrot, milk and water. Blend all until smooth.
—Ian Crawford, Deux-Montagnes, QC
Pumpkin Spice
This tastes just like fall: pumpkin puree, vanilla Greek yogurt, orange juice, cinnamon, nutmeg and ice.
—Syndee Yurkanin Mears, Round Lake, IL
