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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.
I think I would have preferred this one with avocado or yogurt. I only drank half because I got busy at work and it got warm. Will try again.
Tasty!!! Creamy and bursting with flavor. I added some spinach just because : )
I enjoy blueberries anyway. I used a unsweetened Greek yogurt which I love too. This is a 5 for sure! Am using unsweetened coconut milk will definitely have to try with cashew next time. Thanks
Great basic smoothie recipe!
I added spinach and chia seeds to mine.
Delicious!
I LOVE this smoothie. I am not allowed to eat too many bananas (weird health thing) so used a lot of cauliflower. Nope, I couldn’t taste it. Not only was this smoothie easy to make and delicious, but filled me up — a perfect meal replacement. I will admit I added a few frozen cranberries to add more flavor. You probably won’t need them. Thank you, Jen!
I didn’t taste the cauliflower, however I found that it was fairly plain. And Had to add more liquid since the strawberries were frozen, Using our VITAMIX for the challenge.
The smoothie was a beautiful pink and I didn’t taste the cauliflower, however I found that it was fairly plain. I looked for frozen cherries while shopping but didn’t find any. I think this would have added to the flavor as Jen had mentioned. Next time! I did enjoy the smoothie with my granddaughter for lunch.
Smoothie was absolutely delicious and gave me a chance to use up my frozen strawberries. The kids absolutely loved it and the cauliflower idea was a plus that I will use more often.
I loved this smoothie! Cauliflower absorbs the other flavors. I added turmeric and used dry powdered milk instead.
This smoothie was so delicious and not sweet at all! This will be a definite go to for me and I will add some protein next time.
The Strawberry, Banana, Cauliflower, Oatmilk Day 1 smoothie was really great! The more I drank, the more I liked it. Not so sweet as ice cream, yet wonderfully delicious and filling.
Good and easy to make. I’ve had cauliflower in smoothies before so I wasn’t worried. This one was good. My son liked it too.
Deliciously good and super easy to make.
Very good. Added 1 scoop of organic grass fed whey protein
Strawberry banana is one of our favorite flavor combos!
I made this just as published.
It’s a decent meal replacement in a rush.
(I had to post very late today. It’s (\…) as if someone died)
Oh forgot the rating 🙂
This first smoothie with cauliflower already suprised me. Its actually pretty good and inspires me to try more cauliflower in smoothies in the future. I used fresh cauliflower 🙂
Taste very very good!
So easy and helped with my energy!