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Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie

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I love breakfast smoothies. I bet everyone has crazy mornings and if you want to prepare a healthy breakfast but within 10 minutes, smoothies are your best bet. Today I am going to share a simple smoothie made with readily available ingredients. All you need is milk, banana, peanut butter, and sugar to prepare this glass of goodness.


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Most of the time I pack idlis and dosas for lunch and prepare these smoothies for our breakfast. I need to step out of the house by 6:30 AM, so my choices are limited. Luckily we all have early lunch including the kid at 11:30 AM so this setup works for us. This smoothie is perfect for kids too. Vaandu has his breakfast essential drink for the morning. I usually give this smoothie to the kiddo during the evening.

Bananas are available throughout the year, and we all know that bananas are a good source of potassium, an essential mineral for maintaining healthy blood pressure and heart function. One medium-sized banana contains 400+ mg of potassium and including banana in your daily meal help to prevent high blood pressure. The unique mix of vitamins, minerals and low glycemic carbohydrates in bananas has made them a favorite fruit among athletes. (Source – whfoods)

BananaSmoothieI have already mentioned about the protein content in peanut butter and needless to say about the vitamin D in milk. So when you mix milk, banana, and peanut butter, you sure get a sufficient amount of the vitamins and minerals.

Ingredients:

  • Ripe Banana – 1
  • Peanut Butter – 2 tsp
  • Sugar – 1 tsp
  • Milk – 1 cup

Steps:

  • Peel the banana and chop into chunks. (I usually break them with hands)
  • Add the chopped bananas, peanut butter, sugar and milk in a blender or mixer.
  • Blend until smooth.

That’s it. The peanut butter banana smoothie is ready. Serve chilled.

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Notes:

  • Sugar is optional. I used all natural, old fashioned peanut butter which has no sugar. But if used the regular chunky ones with sugar, you can skip the sugar.
  • Along with banana, you can use other fruits too.
  • Instead of peanut butter, you can use protein powder of your choice or flax meal, or you can use it along with peanut butter too.

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Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie
Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
5 mins
Total Time
10 mins
 
A simple and yummy breakfast smoothie prepared with banana, milk and peanut butter.
Course: Drinks
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie
Servings: 1
Calories: 364 kcal
Author: Srividhya G
Ingredients
  • 1 Ripe Banana
  • 2 tsp Peanut Butter
  • 1 tsp Sugar optional
  • 1 cup Milk
Instructions
  1. Peel the banana and chop into chunks. (I usually break them with hands)
  2. Add the chopped bananas, peanut butter, sugar and milk in a blender or mixer.
  3. Blend until smooth.
  4. That's it. The peanut butter banana smoothie is ready. Serve chilled.
Recipe Notes
  • Sugar is optional.
  • I used all natural, old fashioned peanut butter which has no sugar. But if used the regular chunky ones with sugar, you can skip the sugar.
  • Along with banana, you can use other fruits too.
  • Instead of peanut butter, you can use protein powder of your choice or flax meal, or you can use those along with peanut butter too.
  • Also, you can replace milk with almond milk or coconut milk.
Nutrition Facts
Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie
Amount Per Serving
Calories 364 Calories from Fat 144
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 16g 25%
Saturated Fat 6g 30%
Cholesterol 24mg 8%
Sodium 179mg 7%
Potassium 848mg 24%
Total Carbohydrates 45g 15%
Dietary Fiber 4g 16%
Sugars 32g
Protein 12g 24%
Vitamin A 9.4%
Vitamin C 12.4%
Calcium 27.6%
Iron 3.4%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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  8. Wow that’s some drink yaar, so agree on your reply to chcooks..life is tough these days and I am skipping BF too..must make some smoothies now..:)

  11. Healthy Peanut Butter Smoothies.. As you said it would fit me too as i tend to skip my bf most of the days..

  12. Sounds very comforting, Vidhya. Unfortunately for me I can never feel satisfied with a smoothie for breakfast and hence end up making idli/dosa. So I shall try this during evening :D

    • Tell me about it. I was like that too pa…Dosai with podi was my breakfast for a long time. I was resisting anything sweet in the morning but then once kiddo started his daycare, my morning became so crazy with packing food only. I had to pack three different meals (he was 15 month old then) for him and then lunch for us. That’s when M started to travel too, so it became hard to manage and I started skipping breakfast. After lot of gyaan session from my mom, mil and M, I started drinking ragi kanchi. For vaandu I prepare koozh and for me I make it like kanchi. Then slowly vaandu moved to croissants and bagels and we moved to smoothies. I got acquired to it now and having lunch by 11:30 helps. I don’t know if I can survive till 1PM with smoothie. Nothing can beat idli and dosai for sure..

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