This Tropical Green Smoothie Bowl provides plenty of texture contrasts with toppings like granola, hemp hearts, berries and chia seeds. Having one for breakfast makes for a perfect start to the day!
In the last few weeks I fell in love with smoothie bowls! I am not sure what took me so long to get to this place, but now I am a dedicated convert.
For the last 2 years, I’ve been drinking green smoothies on and off. For most of this time, it was for lunch or snack time.
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Once I went through 4 months of morning sickness while being pregnant with Olivia, I was ruined for smoothie breakfasts.
I’ve always had occasional issues with too smooth textures, but since that miserable time I just can’t handle them anymore first thing in the morning.
Until now! Now that I have finally discovered smoothie bowls for myself, all my texture issues are resolved.
Since I can spoon my smoothie right from a bowl, there are all kinds of toppings I can add, that provide plenty of texture contrasts. My favorite is homemade granola. I really have a thing for crunchy.
Smoothie bowls also solve another my dilemmas.
I love to have berries, but when added to a green smoothie they make for a very unappetizing brown-greyish color. Personally, I’ve become accustomed to ugly colored smoothies, but I still feel like I need to make excuses if someone sees me sipping on one 😉
Now, I don’t blend up my berries into the green smoothie. But instead I use them whole as a topping on a bright green smoothie bowl.
That’s where tropical made it into the name of this recipe. For the smoothie part I mainly blend yellow fruit like mango, pineapple and banana, together with coconut milk or water and spinach.
If you are shopping around for the best blender for smoothies, make sure you first read my post to learn what to look for to find the best smoothie blender for you. It includes a detailed review of my 6 favorite blenders.
- ¼ cup plain yogurt
- ¼ avocado
- 1 scoop vanilla protein powder (optional)
- 1 cup baby spinach
- 1 cup frozen fruit chunks (yellow)
- ½ frozen banana
- ¾ - 1 cup (coconut) milk or water
- optional sweetener like honey or maple syrup, if needed
- granola, berries, hemp hearts, ground flax or chia, maca powder, cacao nibs
- Add all smoothie ingredients in a blender or food processor.
- Add as much water/milk as needed to get the blender going and to reach desired consistency.
- Fill into a breakfast bowl and add your favorite toppings of fruit, granola, nuts or seeds.
LOVE smoothie bowls!! Yours looks so tasty!
Oh thank you so much Cathleen. I am having another one as I type this 😉
This looks so pretty! Smoothie bowls have basically sustained me these past few weeks of recovery thanks to my dude. Like you, I need that crunch. Hope you’re enjoying your family visit!
A recovery filled with smoothie bowls just must be going well 🙂 Kelowna was awesome!
What a bowl of goodness!
Thanks so much Angie!