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This Strawberry Banana Smoothie is a guilt-free treat that tastes like dessert in a glass. Sweet strawberries, creamy banana, and hidden vegetable create a luscious, energizing drink packed with fiber, antioxidants, and omega-3s.
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This Strawberry Banana Smoothie is a delicious way to fuel your body with powerful health benefits.
- Brain & heart support: Get some omega-3s from chia seeds, potassium from bananas and antioxidants from strawberries.
- Sustained energy: Enjoy those natural carbohydrates from banana and strawberries, fiber from chia seeds, banana, and cauliflower and plant-based protein from chia seeds.
- Immunity boost: Boost your Vitamin C with strawberries and cauliflower and enjoy these antioxidants that help fight inflammation.
- Digestive health: The high fiber content promotes regularity and gut wellness.
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Strawberry Banana Smoothie Ingredients
Here are a few quick notes about the strawberry banana smoothie ingredients that you will need to make this recipe:
- Frozen strawberries: Look for unsweetened frozen strawberries in the frozen fruit section. Check the label to make sure no added sugars or syrups are included.
- Banana: Choose ripe bananas (yellow with a few brown spots). Riper bananas are sweeter and blend better in smoothies. if you have extras, you can freeze bananas for future smoothies.
- Almond milk: Choose unsweetened almond milk brand for lower sugar or make your own homemade almond milk.
- Frozen cauliflower: Look for frozen riced cauliflower or frozen florets—riced blends more easily. Adding a little frozen cauliflower to fruit smoothies adds fiber + extra creaminess and doesn’t ruin the taste. Promise this is a winner (and you’ll never go back to a straight fruit smoothie).
- Chia seeds: Black or white chia seeds are both fine—there’s no nutritional difference. These superfoods add omega-3s, fiber, and protein.
Recipe Tips
- Add a protein powder or try my homemade protein powder to give you long lasting energy without any sugar crash.
- Swap almond milk with any non-dairy milk like oat, soy, cashew, or coconut milk.
- Use one of my recommended blenders for smoothies to get the creamiest result.
How to Make Strawberry Banana Smoothie | 1 Minute Video
Recipe Variations
- Protein boost: Add 1 serving of protein powder or collagen peptides to make it more filling and supportive for muscle recovery and skin health.
- Extra creamy: Swap almond milk for canned light coconut milk or add ¼ avocado for a richer, creamier texture.
- Fiber-rich: Add 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed or keep the chia seeds and add ½ cup frozen zucchini for extra fiber without changing the taste.
- Green smoothie: Blend in 1 cup fresh spinach. This leafy green vegetable blends smoothly and won’t overpower the strawberry banana flavor.
- Naturally Sweeter: Add 1–2 pitted dates or swap half the almond milk for coconut water for a slightly sweeter, more refreshing finish.
Storage Tips
Drink immediately for the best texture and flavor. Or store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 24 hours—just give it a good shake or stir before drinking!
More Strawberry Smoothies
Looking for more quick and tasty smoothie recipes that are sure to be a hit? Here are a few faves:
- Strawberry mango smoothie
- Spinach strawberry banana smoothie
- Strawberry watermelon smoothie
- Strawberry blueberry smoothie
Strawberry Banana Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 cup strawberries frozen
- 1 ½ banana
- 1 cup almond milk
- ¼ cup cauliflower frozen
- 2 tablespoon chia seeds
Instructions
- Blend strawberries, banana and almond milk until creamy.
- Add cauliflower and chia seeds and blend again.
- Pour into a glass and enjoy!
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Notes
- If using fresh cauliflower, make sure to use one frozen fruit for a refreshingly cool smoothie.
- Swap the almond milk for the non-dairy milk of your choice.
This is so wonderful. Mine isn’t as pink because I think my strawberry measurements were off, and I added your homemade protein to this. Great taste will make this one more often
So glad you enjoyed this smoothie!
Wonderful flavor, who would have thought, Cauliflower — Hum. Don’t taste it at all. YUM!! Will definitely make this smoothie again!!
Strawberry Banana Smoothie, One Of My Favorites I Liked Experimenting With The Frozen Cauliflower. I Usually Have Cauliflower In My Freezer Or Refrigerator Most Of The Time. I Love Adding Chia Seeds To Most Of All My Smoothies. I Froze All My Ingredients This Made It Thick Like A Slushie.
I don’t mind eating a smoothie with a spoon!
I froze all the ingredients and only used about 1/4c cashew milk. The consistency was perfect by my standards. I used strawberries that we picked from a farm. I was surprised that I didn’t really detect the banana. Next time, I will add leafy greens.
Definitely give the leafy greens a try, Carissa!
I’ve always loved strawberries and bananas together. This smoothie is great! I want to try it again and add a little peanut butter next time.
Strawberry and banana is just such a classic, Liz!
Very, very good. I was surprised by the frozen cauliflower but I didn’t even taste it, but I need more veggies in my diet anyway.
Fantastic toss in. Love those kinds of veggies.
Delicious, my grand kids love it
Double win! I love it when our kids can get excited about nutritious foods. Great job, Lorraine.
Started this challenge.. so happy made a strawberry banana smoothie it’s was amazing I added chia seeds and blueberries and spinach. I didn’t add milk added water and ice.. so so good.
I love that I can add veggies to my smoothie while still enjoying the pretty pink color! Loved this smoothie with soy milk and the homemade protein powder. It was really tasty, creamy and a joy to look at!
Forgot to rate in my original post!!!
Love this one!!!
Very pretty and can’t taste the cauliflower at all! What a great way to sneak in summer veggies.
Had fun making three of these for my husband, my friend, and myself. It was a yummy smoothie!
I bought some nondairy milk and as I was about to open it, I realized that it expired in May 2023. I just bought it last week ♀️ Grocery store fail. Anyway, I just used some of our raw jersey milk that we buy from a local dairy farm.
Since I added greek yogurt it helped with the banana taste to be not so strong. Really tasty.