smoothie bowl

Spring slowly is coming and all the different colors are starting to appear in nature. So all beautiful colors are starting to appear in our food again as well! The season with many fruits and veggies in season is tarting and I am more than ready to head into it!

I thought, let’s not do a green smoothie because 1) I do a lot of recipes with greens and 2) many people are scared off by seeing green (not only in their drinks) as it often tastes too healthy! But the are so many ways to eat and drink healthy without needing to add spinach or broccoli. Just eat the rainbow, a little if everything and you will feel amazing!

Today I am sharing a recipe with you, which is one of the prettiest (if not the prettiest) color of the rainbow, pink. What’s not fancy about pink? Right, nothing! This smoothie is so good and not only because of the color. It is super creamy because wir the banana, sweet from the date and super tasty because of the fresh fruits in it!

Besides banana as a base, you’ll need raspberries, blueberries and if you find it somewhere near you, pink dragonfruit. This is totally optional because dragonfruit itself does not have a lot of flavor but it adds a super nice color. You can just switch it out for more berries. All of the berries you are using can be fresh or frozen, it really only changes the consistency of the smoothie. When frozen, it will become more thick and creamy so that is up to you!

Besides the fruits we are using some zucchini in the smoothie too. Don’t be scared, I promise you, you won’t taste anything! If you do have time you can steam it before then there will not be any chunks but if you do not have time that is not a problem either! Just make sure you peel it so it doesn’t make the color go gross. Other than that, just some dates for fiber and sweetness and oat milk as well as soy Joghurt for creaminess. That’s it. If you what to make it more filling you can add some almond or any other but butter and some oats or if you just want it as a snack, leave it as is.

This smoothie makes a perfect breakfast in the go if you are in a hurry or you can also pour it into a bowl and add toppings such as granola, but butter and fresh fruits to enjoy it as a smoothie bowl! Either way it tastes really good and is super quick, which also makes it a ideal snack!

I hope that you will love this recipe and it brings you into a summer feeling!
Happy cooking!
Katie / Une Petite Cuisinière

Think Pink Smoothie

A super pretty and tasty smoothie for some serious summer feelings.

Course Breakfast, Drinks, Snack

Prep Time 5 Minuten

Cook Time 5 Minuten

Total Time 10 Minuten

Servings 2 smaller or 1 large

Calories 158 kcal

What you will need

1 banana
1 zucchini
150 g raspberries if you have you can substitute out half of the raspberries for pink dragon fruit or blueberries for even more color
50 g blueberries
1 date
50 ml oat milk
50 ml water
2 tbsp soy yoghurt

How to

That is how it works:

Peel the zucchini and cut it into chunks. Do the same with the banana and the dragonfruit if using it. Add the berries, milk, water and yoghurt aswell and blend until smooth.
Serve in glasses with straws or as a smoothie bowl with all the delicious toppings! Enjoy!

A friend of mine is from brazil. And she always tells me about all the delicious acai bowls she eats when she is there. Every. Single. Time. We. Meet. This makes me so jealous! I absolutely love Açai Bowls but it is so hard to get one (and if you get one, to get a good one) in Vienna. Now I know one place that makes really delicious ones and that is Superfooddeli! But unfortunately this one place that actually has them is 1 hour away from my home with public transport 🙁 !

Since I am a really huge fan of these bowls and do not want to spend 2 hours reaching that place and coming back I decided to make my own one. I bought Açai Packets from that store and made it at home. Absolutely delicious! And so easy. I really haven´t expected it to be that easy! The clue to making a good Açai Bowl is having a good blender. If your blender is not very strong, it is going to be hard for it to blend everything up smoothly and there will remain chunks in the smoothie.

I love having such a bowl for breakfast or brunch or even as a light lunch! It is prepared so quickly and really delicious. If you are off heading somewhere you can just pour it into a Tupperware and take it on the go! I love this dish!

Isn´t it a ton of Sugar?

Although I love making smoothie bowls, an issue I have with those kind of meals is that I am usually eating tons of sugar. Bananas, berries, mangoes, acai, … whatever. They are really delicious and full of vitamins but sadly also full of sugar. If you blend all of them up, I believe that you eat more fruit pureed than you would normally eat as a whole. To still get a delicious, creamy, and sweat bowl but not consuming to much sugar I decided to add some veggies to my meals. And believe me, this was the best decision!

I could not taste the vegetables at all, I couldn´t have told that they were in there. My 2 tips to adding vegetables to your smoothies are:

1^st: freeze them before adding. You not only get a creamier and thicker consistency but you will also taste them less. I do not know why, but it absolutely is worth it.

2^nd: use vegetables that do not have an intense color. In this case, it doesn´t matter too much since the smoothie bowl is pretty dark anyways but when making a bright smoothie bowls, e.g. a mango one and you add a dark vegetable like spinach, the whole meal will get a darker color and will look less appealing. If you want to make a green smoothie though, this is something different, the go ahead and add all the spinach and kale. For my Açai Bowl I used celery and zucchini, which I have peeled before a froze it.

What about toppings?

When it comes to the toppings you are absolutely free and can decide according to your desires! If you prefer fresh fruit, whatever fruit you like, something crunchy, something frozen, something creamy, the possibilities are endless! For me, I believe that toppings are the best part of any smoothie bowl!

As delicious as they are, you can easily go overboard. When adding tons of nut butters, chocolate chunks and sugar loaded granola you can easily turn a light and healthy meal into something rather heavy and dense. For my topping I like to use some more fresh fruit, like mango and berries, some homemade healthy granola, coconut chips, goji berries, hemp seeds, a spoonful of nut butter (I absolutely love almond butter with this!), some cut up banana and some edible flowers.

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