Recently it has become fashionable to cook smoothies. This is a fragrant, very tasty, and, most importantly, natural drink. To create it, you can use almost all fruits, vegetables, as well as grains, nuts and various dairy products. Among the most popular options are banana smoothies. This exotic fruit has such a delicate pulp that it remains to add any of the above products to it, and the result is an amazing drink that has excellent taste characteristics and a rich vitamin and mineral composition.

Classic Banana Smoothie in a Blender

Starting to learn how to cook a banana smoothie is better with the classic version. In fact, this is a milkshake with banana pulp.

There is nothing superfluous in this drink, only two main ingredients:

  • 2 bananas;
  • 0.5 l of whole milk.

To make a smoothie, a blender is usually used (submersible, but preferably stationary).

This “miracle drink” is being prepared like this:

  1. First you need to peel the bananas. For work, you only need their flesh. The peel can be discarded immediately.
  2. Cut the banana pulp into small cubes and drop them into the blender bowl.
  3. Pour a measured amount of milk there.
  4. Close the blender lid and turn on the machine. After 1-2 minutes of intensive beating, the drink will be ready. It is advisable to use high power devices (600-800 watts). With their help, you can chop the pulp as much as possible, spending quite a bit of time on it.

The result is a real banana smoothie with milk. By consistency, it will resemble a thick jelly. Sweet lovers can add some sugar or honey to it. But you need to do this at the very beginning.

With strawberries

In early summer, when the berry season begins, it is good to treat yourself to a banana-strawberry smoothie.Although this can be done in the winter, if you have available frozen fruits.

For the summer version you will need:

  • 1 banana
  • 150-200 g of fresh strawberries;
  • 300 ml of milk (or ordinary drinking water);
  • some sugar or honey (optional).

Methods of preparing a mixed drink:

  1. Peel bananas. Chop the pulp arbitrarily with your hands and place in the blender bowl.
  2. Remove the stalk from each strawberry.
  3. Rinse the berries and add them to the banana bowl.
  4. Pour milk into the contents.
  5. Add some honey or sugar (optional).
  6. Turn on the blender and continue whisking until the mass becomes homogeneous.
  7. Wait 5-10 minutes, and then pour the mixture into glasses (or glasses).

This drink not only quenches thirst well, but also brings certain benefits to the human body. Banana, firstly, protects the walls of the stomach from damage, and, secondly, prevents swelling, removing excess moisture. Strawberries also control the blood sugar and prevent the formation of gallstones in the stones.

Healthy oatmeal dessert

Oatmeal can also be added to a traditional banana smoothie (it is better to take cereal). It is known that it belongs to the category of the most useful cereals. Many experts call it a component of harmony and eternal youth. No wonder the British have been eating oatmeal for a long time in the morning.

To make a smoothie with her, you need to take:

  • 150 g bananas;
  • 120 ml of whole milk and any fruit yogurt;
  • 40 g of oatmeal;
  • 5 ml of liquid honey;
  • some cinnamon.

How to cook banana-oat smoothie from these products:

  1. Separately heat the milk.
  2. Pour them oatmeal and leave for about 8-10 minutes. This is necessary so that they swell.
  3. Transfer oatmeal to a blender.
  4. Add the bananas, after peeling them and breaking them into pieces.
  5. Enter the remaining components.
  6. Beat products at high speed for at least 60 seconds. The mixture should gradually turn into a homogeneous mass.

A smoothie with oatmeal prepared according to this recipe is good to drink in the morning. It retains a feeling of satiety for a long time and allows you not to overeat.

Delicious and delicate kiwi banana smoothie

Of particular note is the banana smoothie with the addition of kiwi. Among useful recipes, this cocktail is not the last one.

In this case, you will need:

  • 1 kiwi
  • 1 banana
  • 150 ml of milk.

How to make such a smoothie:

  1. Release the banana pulp from the peel and cut it into pieces.
  2. Peel the kiwi by cutting off the scalp with a sharp knife from the surface. Cut the remaining green flesh into slices.
  3. The crushed components are loaded into the blender. To better beat the mass, you can add a few pieces of ice.
  4. Pour milk in there.
  5. Beat well until smooth.

It turns out a soft and very gentle drink with a thick consistency with an original taste and pleasant aroma. 100 g of such a product contains no more than 66 kcal. For a tasty and healthy cocktail, this is quite a bit.

Cooking with Chocolate

Those who are not afraid to get better can be offered to prepare a fragrant smoothie with the addition of chocolate. Everything here, as they say, is simple.

To work you need:

  • 100 g bananas;
  • 50 g of dark chocolate bar;
  • 1 cup of milk;
  • a pinch of chocolate chips (for decoration).

To make a smoothie out of these ingredients in a blender, you must:

  1. Break the chocolate into pieces.
  2. Put them in a small saucepan, then put it on a small fire and wait until all the chocolate has melted.
  3. Add a portion of milk (approximately 100 ml) and mix.
  4. Pour the chocolate mass into the blender bowl.
  5. There, place the chopped banana pulp.
  6. Pour in the remaining milk.
  7. Beat well.

After that, it remains only to pour the dessert into a glass and decorate it with chips, which can be replaced with ordinary cocoa powder.

Vitamin drink with apple

To strengthen your body and replenish it with vitamins, you can cook a very simple apple-banana smoothie. The drink is not only healthy, but also quite satisfying. It is quite possible to replace one of the meals during the day.

To prepare a dessert, you will need only 2 components:

  • fresh apples and bananas in any ratio (to taste).

Cooking method:

  1. Wash and cut the apples into cubes, removing previously from each core with seeds.
  2. Peeled bananas chop randomly.
  3. Place the workpiece in a blender.
  4. Beat until the mass becomes homogeneous.

This drink is best consumed immediately after its preparation. Due to the lack of liquid components (milk, water or yogurt), it turns out to be thick. Additionally, you can drop a few ice cubes into the bowl. This will make the drink refreshing, as well as facilitate the whipping procedure.

Avocado & Banana Smoothie

Everyone knows that avocados are a unique product, the useful properties of which can be listed for a long time. Eating these fruits improves memory, normalizes blood pressure, increases working capacity, prevents the accumulation of cholesterol in the blood and the multiplication of cancer cells, and also slows down the aging process and positively affects potency. This product has almost no analogue. If you add it to a banana smoothie, you get a tasty, satisfying and very nutritious drink.

To do this, take:

  • avocado;
  • banana;
  • 100 ml of cold milk.

The dessert preparation method remains the same:

  1. First of all, the fruits need to be cleaned.
  2. Gently chop the pulp into medium-sized pieces.
  3. Put them in a blender.
  4. Add milk.
  5. Beat 1-1.5 minutes.

After this procedure, the drink acquires a pleasant cream shade and original taste. But cooking it is often not recommended. As you know, avocado is a high-calorie product. They should not be abused.

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