This Blue Smoothie Bowl is a healthy, easy breakfast!
It’s thick, creamy and slightly sweet, and only needs 5 ingredients.
Plus it’s naturally gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free, vegan and Paleo.
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Why this recipe works
Smoothie bowls are a fun way to start the day – you blend up some fruit and milk, pour it into a bowl and add your favorite toppings. You can make it as healthy or as decadent as you want.
One of my favorite ways to make it is to add blue spirulina powder, a vibrantly colored powder extracted from algae. It adds a fun blue color without adding any weird flavor. Just a little bit goes a long way to make a smoothie bowl blue. Or can use it in my Blue Chia Pudding!
When you blend it with non-dairy milk or water, frozen coconut milk and frozen bananas, you end up with thick, creamy goodness that’s naturally sweet from the bananas. I also like to add protein powder to make it more filling.
Please note that it does require freezing some ingredients first – the bananas and coconut milk. I like to freeze a big batch of both so I always have some ready to go. Once the coconut milk has frozen into ice cubes, transfer them to a freezer-safe baggie.
As for toppings, try any fruit you like. For crunch, you can add nuts, seeds or cacao nibs. Drizzle it with nut butters or coconut butter. Unsweetened shredded coconut or coconut flakes are also great. See the recipe below for more ideas.
And you can freeze this blue spirulina bowl so it’s great for meal prep.
Some of my other favorite smoothie bowl recipes are this Coconut Smoothie Bowl and this Sweet Potato Smoothie Bowl.
What you need
Ingredients:
- 1 cup non-dairy milk or water (I use unsweetened plain almond milk), plus more as needed
- 2 frozen bananas (peel the bananas, break them into chunks and freeze in a baggie overnight)
- 5-6 coconut milk ice cubs (pour full-fat unsweetened coconut milk into an ice cube tray and freeze overnight)
- 1.5 scoops protein powder – unflavored or vanilla work best
- 1.5 teaspoons blue spirulina powder – Look for blue spirulina powder that only contains one ingredient: blue spirulina. I like the powder from the Naturegrail Store as it’s 100% spirulina, raw and affordable (remember, a little bit goes a long way)
- topping ideas:
- fresh fruit, such as strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, cherries, pineapple, banana, kiwi or mango
- chopped nuts, such as almonds, cashews, walnuts, pecans, pistachios, hazelnuts or macadamias
- seeds such as flax, chia, sunflower, pumpkin or hemp
- nut butters such as peanut, almond or sunflower seed
- coconut butter
- cacao nibs
- chocolate chips
- unsweetened shredded coconut
- unsweetened coconut flakes
Equipment:
- a blender
- measuring spoons
- a wooden spoon or spatula
- a cutting board – for chopping fruit
- a chef’s knife or paring knife – for chopping fruit
How to make a Blue Smoothie Bowl
Add the milk or water, frozen banana and coconut milk ice cubes to a blender and blend until smooth. If it’s too thick, blend in more milk/water a little at a time. Scrape down the sides of the blender jar to make sure everything gets mixed in, if needed.
Add the protein powder and blue spirulina and blend again. And again, if it’s too thick, blend in more milk/water a little at a time.
Pour or scrape into a bowl, add your favorite toppings and enjoy!
Frequently Asked Questions
If you don’t like bananas, you can leave them out and add more coconut milk ice cubes. You might also want to add a bit of sweetener, such as honey, maple syrup or agave nectar.
You can add other flavorings, such as vanilla extract (or another extract you like) or citrus zest.
Yep. Keep it in a freezer-safe container or baggie in the freezer for up to 3 months. It might be very thick so you can either take it out about 10-20 minutes in advance or stir in some more milk/water.
Yep. Keep it in a freezer-safe container or baggie in the freezer for up to 3 months. It might be very thick so you can either take it out about 10-20 minutes in advance or stir in some more milk/water.
It is if your milk, protein powder and toppings are all dairy-free.
Yep, as long as the milk, protein powder and toppings are vegan.
Yep, as long as the milk, protein powder and toppings are all Paleo-friendly.
Other recipes you might like:
- Blue Chia Pudding (vegan, Paleo)
- Coconut Smoothie Bowl (vegan, Paleo)
- Sweet Potato Smoothie Bowl (vegan, Paleo)
- Matcha Chia Pudding (vegan, Paleo)
Blue Smoothie Bowl (dairy-free, vegan, Paleo)
Ingredients
- 1 cup non-dairy milk or water plus more as needed
- 2 frozen bananas see notes
- 5 coconut milk ice cubes see notes
- 1½ scoops protein powder vanilla or unflavored
- 1½ teaspoons blue spirulina powder
Topping ideas:
- fresh fruit, such as strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, cherries, pineapple, banana, kiwi or mango
- chopped nuts, such as almonds, cashews, walnuts, pecans, pistachios, hazelnuts or macadamias
- seeds such as flax, chia, sunflower, pumpkin or hemp
- nut butters such as peanut, almond or sunflower seed
- coconut butter
- cacao nibs
- chocolate chips
- unsweetened shredded coconut
- unsweetened coconut flakes
Instructions
- Add the milk or water, frozen banana and coconut milk ice cubes to a blender and blend until smooth. If it's too thick, blend in more milk/water a little at a time. Scrape down the sides of the blender jar to make sure everything gets mixed in, if needed.
- Add the protein powder and blue spirulina and blend again. And again, if it's too thick, blend in more milk/water a little at a time.
- Pour or scrape into a bowl, add your favorite toppings and enjoy!
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