A tropical banana smoothie is the perfect way to start your day! It's a good option for breakfast but also a sweet and healthy snack.
I know it's the middle of winter but it was 60 degrees in NJ today. This warranted the kids playing outside in shorts. ( In our house, shorts weather is anything over 40 degrees.) We had plenty of warm sunshine so I thought making a tropical banana smoothie was appropriate.
I took my drink out on the patio and closed my eyes. I took a sip and envisioned a turquoise pool of water, pink sand between my toes and a cool breeze blowing through some palm trees. A shot of rum in this drink might have helped further but it was too early in the day for that. This smoothie reminded me of a tropical island and that the summer is not too far away. Tonight, it is going back down to 35 degrees and I will be drinking warm tea. Tomorrow I might even be eating a big bowl of soup. But it was nice to have a little summer dreaming even if just for a few hours.
You can make this smoothie whether it's summer or not. It takes just three simple ingredients and a blender. Cut up the fruit, add coconut milk, blend together and you are done! It takes less than five minutes to make. I always cut up frozen fruit in my freezer to make the process even easier.
This tropical banana smoothie is both vegan and naturally gluten free. I love to start my day with a nice smoothie and a hard boiled egg. Cherry Almond Smoothies and Strawberry Mango Smoothies are also favorites when I need a quick breakfast.
What are your favorite types of smoothies to make? Leave me some recipe ideas in the comments.
Tropical Banana Smoothie
Ingredients
- 2 frozen bananas sliced
- 1 can 14 ounces light coconut milk
- 1 cup mango chunks
Instructions
- Put all ingredients in a blender. Blend until smooth. Add a few ice cubes if you would like it more frozen. Makes 2 to 3 servings.
Nutrition
Wait..can I add some Vodka?? 😉
Looks and sounds great to me. Though we finally got a skiff of snow last night, this has been the strangest (warm) winter here, too!
Nothing like a smoothie to transport you. Yum and flavors the kids would love.
It's been an unusually warm winter here in KY too. Days like this help you from getting cabin fever too soon. The smoothie looks great!
Ahhh a little snapshot of summer- love it! Your smoothie looks delicious! Great tip on canned coconut milk.
Happy Blending!
i love this, i could use something like this during the cold winter days. your blog looks awesome by the way!
this is one of the weirdest winter I can remember. it's so hard to believe we're almost mid January I haven't taken my boots out of the closet and most of the days I go out in a t-shirt.
love the addition of the coconut milk to your smoothies
I think I'm going to have to make this. I already have the coconut milk and bananas. I'll sub pineaplle for the mango though cause I have that already.
Looks fantastic.
Wish I would have seen this the other day, now it's freezing again~Looks fantastic!
I love coconut milk in my smoothies!
This sounds simple and delicious! We had the same weather as you the other day but this afternoon we had snow.....crazy!
Yum, coconut milk definitely makes this smoothie tropical and transports me back to Hawaii.
We can only dream about mangoes here this time of the year 🙁
But this smoothie looks great and I like that you have used coconut milk instead of ordinary milk.. I shall give this a try as soon as mangoes enter the market