You might think I would be tired of strawberries after that wonderful bourbon-strawberry jam, but I sure wasn’t. Strawberries are something I never get tired of so I wanted to try another strawberry recipe. My Pinterest boards have tons and tons of strawberry recipes, and I was having so much trouble deciding what until I found this Strawberry Smoothie Bowl. I have pinned bunches of smoothie bowl recipes but I hadn’t tried any. Until now, that is!
This Strawberry Smoothie Bowl is perfectly sweet, decadently creamy, made with 3 ingredients and healthy enough for breakfast!
The Ingredients
This was a no-shopping recipe. I always keep frozen strawberries and bananas on hand for smoothies. I also had some leftover dairy milk from a dinner recipe I made earlier in the week, so I was all set.
It was only later that I realized the ingredient listed as “milk” probably meant nut or oat milk since the recipe is also listed as vegan. I debated re-making it with almond milk but decided it probably wouldn’t make much difference in the flavor.
The recipe also lists “toppings of choice”, so I dug around my kitchen and found many possibilities. I had plenty of seeds, nuts, peanut butter, honey, and chocolate chips, so I had a lot of options. What I completely forgot to include in my photo of ingredients was granola. I had a brand-new bag and totally missed it when I was gathering the toppings.
The Process
You might think that making a smoothie bowl is just like making a smoothie, but it was a little different. All the smoothie recipes I make say to add all the ingredients and blend until smooth. I don’t know if it’s true of all smoothie bowl recipes, but the process for this one was a little different.
This smoothie bowl recipe had me add the frozen fruit to my blender and let it sit for two minutes to thaw and soften slightly. Then I had to blend the fruit until it was chopped into small pieces. The fruit didn’t seem to have softened much, and there was a lot of clatter for the first few seconds of blending/chopping! But the blender quickly did its thing and I had tiny bits of strawberry and banana in no time.
Now it was time to add the milk. I began with 1/4 cup, gave it a blend, and checked the consistency. I could see that it wasn’t the smooth pink texture shown in the photo, so I added another 1/4 cup of milk and blended. It was beginning to come together, but I had to add another 1/4 of the milk to get the creamy texture I wanted.
The mixture was smooth and creamy but also thick like frozen ice cream. Because of that, it didn’t blend quite as easily as a regular smoothie. I had to scrape down the sides and stir the bits at the bottom to get them all mixed in. There were a few stray chunks of fruit here and there, but most of them were blended in.
Topping my Smoothie Bowl
Once I transferred the pink smoothie mixture into a large shallow bowl it was time to add my toppings of choice. I love this because it makes the recipe so flexible!
Like the smoothie part’s ingredients, the toppings were also things I had on hand. I didn’t use the honey shown in the photo of the ingredients, but I used everything else. I also added some granola to make a tasty and filling breakfast.
Timing
This recipe listed 10 minutes total time. I either came in just under if you only count making the smoothie or just over if you include adding the toppings. Here’s how my time was spent:
- 8 minutes to make the smoothie
- 4 minutes to add the toppings
- 12 minutes total
