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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.
Very smooth. Perhaps from the cauliflower? I would like to try cauliflower in another recipe but this didn’t have much flavor. Definitely couldn’t taste the strawberries.
Hi Kathy! Cauliflower can def up the creamy factor in a smoothie, so your instinct is correct. If you’d like more berry flavor, you could always add more berries or try fresh or frozen instead depending on what you used the first go-round.
Great with a capital G! Best way ever to consume cauliflower.
I was a little nervous about cauliflower in my smoothie but you couldn’t even taste it. Delicious!
This was a new one for us; usually, I’d not have one of these during the week, when I normally have green ones and keep the special/richer ones for the weekend days. I only made it on a Tuesday as it is part of the challenge. It was ok, I hesitated between 2 and 3 stars. It was not not nice, just ok. Not one I’d do again, except, I do have a bag of frozen cauliflower in my freezer now, so might incorporate it in our rotation again. It was blah, nothing special.
Love, love, love this smoothie. The bright flavor of the strawberries brought me back to summer. 5 + stars
Never had a smoothie with cauliflower but was pleasantly surprised with this tasty addition. My smoothie came out a big thick so it became a smoothie bowl with a few blueberries, hemp hearts and sliced almonds on top. What a way to start the day!
LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!!! And, best of all, I finally tried it in my new Vitamix that I got for Christmas and was afraid to try. Today’s smoothie is a nice change from yesterdays in that there is no green. Instead it has a smidge of cauliflower, which you can’t even taste. These smoothies are all amazing. It’s so nice to know I can make these and get in all these good/healthy nutrients. Can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings 🙂
Yesterday I couldn’t drink it all so I put half in the fridge for later. When I had it later it tasted just as amazing!!! Thank you for this challenge and all the recipes.
So thick and creamy! I love this one.
This on is delicious! But I only put one small banana so it wouldn’t be too sweet.
This one was ok for me not a big fan of banana so used avocado.
This one was tasty even with the hidden cauliflower. I substituted coconut milk for the almond milk as I keep that in my pantry.
Simply delicious. My 11 year old reall enjoyed this one. He kept saying mmm as he was drinking it.
Love the cauliflower addition! Either my strawberries weren’t very “strawberry-ee” or I need more. I used less banana because it’s not my favorite and a mix of almond, cashew, macademia nut milk because that’s all I could find at the time. Will definitely try again. Great texture!
Day 2 Strawberry Banana Smoothie. Always a great combination. Never thought about cauliflower. A must used going forward. Chia Seed has been sold out at my local grocery stores but substituted ground flax seed. Still tasting amazing!!
I followed suggestion to reduce banana and increase cauliflower for lower sugar count. Added the protein powder and found it too thick. I added more almond milk and am enjoying it now.
Day 2
I love that is keeping me full!! I made a recipe for 3 of us this morning and although I did not add the right amount of strawberries it still tasted amazing.
I have to admit it was odd not having a “green” smoothie, I’ve been following and blending SGS recipes for a few years now and I think this is my first without spinach, kale or some green stuff, lol. That said it I have to admit as I’m writing this review that I even forgot it had cauliflower in it, you seriously won’t taste it. The smoothie turned out super thick, I used all frozen fruit and frozen cauliflower, I had to add some extra liquid to help my vitamix keep blending. I would have loved more strawberries, so next time I think I’ll do more berries and less bananas. YUM!
Day 2
This is one of my favorites with strawberries and banana!
I added a little acai, flax and chia, and a vegan protein powder.
We used 1/2 the banana since ours were super ripe but it was still sweet and refreshing! Weird to not blend in greens, but still delicious.
Like others mentioned ..I was nervous about the cauliflower..and I’m not a huge banana person, so the fact that this has lots of bananas was not super appealing. Mind changed!! I will keep this one at the top of my rotation get all the nutritional benefits of bananas! YUM.