3-Ingredient Strawberry Banana Smoothie Bowl

What’s A Banana Smoothie Ball?

A Banana Smoothie Ball is a thicker smoothie, served in a ball with pieces of fresh fruits for a delicious nutrient-loaded breakfast.

Who doesn’t love a smoothie bowl for breakfast? It’s like serving ice cream for breakfast with all the benefits of adding healthy breakfast toppings you have in the pantry.

So let’s see how you can make this banana strawberry smoothie bowl at home.

How To Make Strawberry Banana Smoothie Bowl

This is the easiest recipe ever to start the day with a healthy breakfast.

Smoothie Bowl Ingredients

All you need to make a thick, creamy smoothie bowl are 3-ingredients:

• Frozen Ripe Bananas – peel, cut them in chunks, and place them in an airtight container in the freezer the day before.
• Frozen Strawberries – you can freeze freshly picked strawberries or buy ready frozen strawberries.
• Unsweetened Almond Milk – or any non-dairy milk you love like oat milk, coconut milk, or soy milk for a protein boost.

Blending Or Processing

You can make a smoothie bowl in a food processor or a high-speed blender.

Both options work, but I tend to prefer my food processor as the large blade makes it easier to blend the frozen fruits.

Let me share with you how to proceed based on the option you choose.

In A Blender

First, place the frozen fruits and half milk in the blender. Start blending at low speed to form a sort of fruit crumble.

Now add the remaining milk and blend until smooth using the blender tamper tool to push down the fruits into the jug’s center.

It takes a few minutes to come together. You can add more almond milk if the blade has difficulties bringing the ingredients together.

However, never add more than 1 tablespoon of extra milk at a time, or you can turn the texture into a thin smoothie.

In A Food Processor

You can also add all the ingredients directly into a food processor. Process on low speed at first.

When the ingredients start to come together into thick ice cream, stop the food processor, remove the lid, and scrape down the sides of the bowl.

Next, repeat the blending scraping process a few times until no more fruit bites show.

Making Thicker Smoothie Bowl

The key is to make a smoothie bowl thick and not runny, is a perfect ratio of frozen fruits to liquid.

You must weigh the frozen fruits in grams or ounces and don’t use measuring cups for frozen fruits.

It won’t be accurate, and then you will struggle to adjust the amount of non-dairy milk, adding too much, and turning the bowl into a runny smoothie.

Measure frozen fruits by weight

So to make a thick smoothie bowl like nice cream, always aim for this exact combo of ingredients:

• 6 oz of frozen fruits – any frozen fruits strawberry, banana, pineapple, mango. Don’t use fresh fruit for smoothie bowls!
• 1/2 cup non-dairy milk of choice.

Use starchy fruits

The best fruits to increase the thickness of smoothie bowls are:

• Ripe banana
• Mango
• Dried dates

Add high-protein plant-based ingredients

If you want to make the smoothie bowl a bit thicker, add high protein or high fiber ingredients like:

• plant-based protein powder
• cashews
• chia seeds
• flaxseed meal
• nut butter like almond butter or peanut butter.
• Homemade granola such as my Chocolate Granola or my Peanut Butter Granola Recipe.

However, note that adding any of these ingredients will make the smoothie difficult to blend. It means you will have to add more non-dairy milk, 1 tablespoon at a time.

Adjust milk slowly

If your smoothie bowl is difficult to blend, add more non-dairy milk 1 tablespoon at a time, not more!

Blend between each addition, scraping down the jug’s sides with the blender tamper or spatula for the food processor.

Patience and slow addition of liquid are the magic ingredients to keep the smoothie bowl thick.

Are Smoothie Bowls Good For You?

Yes, smoothie bowls are healthy breakfasts as long as you add the right smoothie bowl toppings to them.

A smoothie bowl itself is basically fruits and milk of choice. It means it brings you vitamins, fiber, and carbs from fruits and protein from milk.

The best toppings for smoothie bowls are the ones that add complementary nutrition like:

• Seeds – most seeds are great sources of plant-based proteins, vitamins, and fiber. They are also gut-friendly and fulfilling. Great seeds to add on top of your smoothie bowl are pumpkin seeds, hemp seeds, sunflower seeds, chia seeds, or golden flaxseeds.
• Grains – oats, buckwheat cereals, puffed quinoa all these grains are great sources of plant-based protein and fiber as well to keep you full.
• Nut butter
• Coconut flakes
• Fresh fruits – a smoothie bowl is often topped with fresh fruits like blueberries, raspberries, sliced bananas, and fresh strawberries.