Strawberry Banana Smoothie

Start your day with this refreshing Strawberry Banana Smoothie, packed with protein and ready in minutes. With four simple ingredients you'll have a healthy and satisfying recipe to kickstart your day.

Strawberry Banana Smoothie Recipe

This fruit and yogurt smoothie is a perfect way to start your morning with a healthy breakfast.

This makes a great post-workout shake when you add protein powder to it or a fun toddler smoothie that you can feel good about serving to your family. 

Learning to make smoothies at home was a game-changer for me. Really, they are so simple! The most difficult part is the order of your ingredients (and don't worry, I've got that covered below).

Once you master the simple technique for making smoothies at home, you'll be making them with all kinds of different combinations.

Why You'll Love This Recipe

This banana strawberry smoothie might just become your new favorite.

• It's easy to make in your blender with freezer ingredients.
• You can easily make it thicker or thinner to your liking.
• Dress it up with your favorite mix-ins or keep things simple.

What You Need

• A High Quality Blender — This is key to help your smoothie blend up all the ingredients really well.
• Individual Serving Blender — You'll want one of these if you prefer to take your smoothies on the go!
• Smoothie Glasses — These are the absolute best for enjoying smoothies at home. I love how well they fit in my hand!
• Paper or Stainless Steel Straws — Reusable or compostable straws are the best for the environment.

Ingredients

The best part about smoothies is you really can use whatever you have on hand.

But the types of ingredients that should be used are frozen fruit like strawberries, bananas, mango and pineapple. You can also throw in frozen veggies too to make a green smoothie.

Second, your liquids — like plain Greek yogurt, your favorite type of milk or even juice — are key to help it blend especially if you're using frozen fruit.

Here's what you need to pull together this recipe:

• Bananas: Bananas lend a creaminess to smoothie. You can use fresh or frozen bananas, but frozen is recommended for keeping the smoothie cold without adding ice.
• Strawberries: Frozen strawberries are ideal to keep the smoothie cold, so you don't have to add ice, which waters down the smoothie as it melts.
• Unsweetened yogurt: Greek yogurt is best because it is so thick and creamy, and comes loaded with extra protein. But any kind of yogurt — even plant-based yogurt — will work just fine.
• Unsweetened almond milk or dairy milk: Any kind of milk or nut milk will do. The fruit is sweet enough on its own, so you shouldn't need an additional sweetener.

You can also add in mix-ins like protein powder, collagen chia seeds or even other fruits like blueberries, pineapple or peaches. A big handful of greens like spinach or kale is a great way to squeeze in some extra nutrients.

If you want to modify the recipe, check out these tips for making a smoothie without banana or yogurt.

Best Yogurt for Smoothies

You should use plain Greek yogurt that has more grams of protein than sugar.

Using plain, unsweetened, unflavored Greek yogurt gives you the good fat content you want from yogurt, but without added sugar.

Because you are blending the yogurt with fruit, there really is no need for additional sugar. It will be sweet enough just with fruit. 

Plain Chobani yogurt is one of our favorites to add to smoothies!

However, if you find you need to sweeten your smoothie, I recommend adding a little bit of honey or agave nectar for a natural sweetener.

Once you get comfortable making smoothies, you'll be able to create your own fun combinations depending on what kind of fruit, juice and yogurt combinations you have available.

This pineapple smoothie is a great one for mornings when we are feeling like a vacation. Another favorite of ours is this kale smoothie!

Best Blender for Smoothies

If you want to make a large smoothie or smoothie for two servings, I recommend a traditional blender.

Personally, I love love love my Vitamix and recommend one if smoothies are a part of your daily rituals.

If you want to make an individual smoothie to take with you on the go, the Magic Bullet blender is really great.

However, you'll want to halve this recipe for an individual serving size! 

How to Make a Strawberry Banana Smoothie

This is one of the easiest smoothie recipes out there.

Here's how to make it:

Measure out your ingredients. This step always saves you tons of time when you are cooking anything.

Add ingredients to the blender with the biggest pieces first. Start with any frozen fruit at the bottom.

Add the Greek yogurt and finally the milk on top.

Blend until fruit is completely blended.

If the smoothie is too thin, add ice or more yogurt to thicken it up.

If the smoothie is too thick, add Greek yogurt to make the smoothie thinner.

Drink immediately or store in a glass mason jar in the fridge until you're ready to drink it. You may need to stir it or re-blend it if there is any settling.

You can freeze any leftover smoothie in ice cube trays to enjoy again later. Just add them to a blender with a bit of almond milk and re-blend it.

Meal Prep for Smoothies

There are two ways to do make smoothies ahead of time.

Because smoothies don't have ice cream, like milkshakes do, you can actually make them the night before and store the smoothie overnight for the morning. If any settling occurs, you can simply re-blend it or shake it up in a mason jar.

The other is you can prep them ahead of time by adding all of the fruit/veggies into a muffin tin or jars, and freezing them.

Then you can remove the ingredients and put them in ziptop bags to store. Take out one or two at a time, add your liquid and blend them up!

A third thing you can do is blend up the smoothie and add it to an ice cube tray (affiliate). Then you can blend up the leftover smoothie with more liquid (like juice or milk) to make a smoothie in the future.

Smoothie Consistency Tips

Want to make your smoothie thicker or thinner? There are lots of ways to do this.

To Make a Smoothie Thicker

Thick smoothies always start with frozen fruit which keeps water content down.

If you find your smoothie still isn't as thick and creamy as you'd like, the two best ways you can thicken smoothies are by adding either ice or more yogurt!

To Make a Smoothie Thinner

If your smoothie gets too thick, you can easily thin it out by adding more liquid, whether that is milk or juice!

How to Add More Protein to Smoothies

This is one of the reasons I love adding Greek yogurt to my fruit smoothies.

Greek yogurt smoothies are filling because they're packed with protein from the yogurt.

You can also add a plain protein powder or a flavored one (my husband loves adding a chocolate one) to this smoothie in addition to Greek yogurt. We really like Vital Proteins brand for protein powder.

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