Gingerbread Smoothie: Let your taste buds sparkle with this Dessert Thickie
If you love gingerbread, you will adore this healthy gingerbread smoothie dessert version of this classic. Let your taste buds sparkle!
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Water
- 1 Cup Non Dairy Milk oat, rice, almond, hemp, coconut drink or raw nut or seed milk
- 4 Bananas
- ¼ Cup Almonds Use ground almonds/ almond flour if you don’t have a powerful blender
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon of fresh or ground ginger OR
- 1 drop of ginger Young Living essential oil Learn how to get my favourite Young Living essential oils at wholesale prices here
- 1 Tablespoon Molasses If you need a gingerbread recipe without molasses, just substitute this for agave nectar, maple syrup, raw honey or ¼ cup of dates or raisins. If it gets too thick, add a little bit more water
- 1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
- Optional: 1 Cup Oats or choose one of the other 20 fillers
- Optional: 1 Cup of Spinach or other mild greens OR if you run out of fresh greens add 2 scoops of Amazing Green Powder for an extra healthy green boost.
Instructions
- Blend the ingredients in the following order:
- Blend the dry ingredients and liquid first for a short time
- Blend the greens next. (If using) for a short time
- Blend the fruit and the rest of the ingredients until smooth (or as smooth as your blender will allow. High speed blenders may need 2 minutes for a green thickie, less powerful blenders may need a lot more, sometimes 5-10 minutes)
More tips:
- Blending this way allows the dry ingredients to be blended for longest, it means the greens will fit in your blender and your fruit gets less blending so it doesn’t become too hot.
- Add more water if required to thin it out.
- Substitute any of the ingredients for whatever you already have.
- If your smoothie is too warm, you can cool it down in the fridge or freeze some of your ingredients before blending.
- You can also replace half of the liquids with ice. Add the ice at the end. It is better to add frozen ingredients at the end to cool the smoothie down.
Notes
How much should I drink to replace a meal?
- Only use a meal replacement if you’ve added the oats/quinoa.
- This green thickie serves 2 so you should DRINK HALF OF THIS RECIPE. But if you have higher calorie requirements you may need to drink more