Carob Banana Breakfast Smoothie Treat!

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Carob Banana Breakfast Smoothie Treat!

March 20, 2008 by Renee

Ingredients
1/4 cup raw almonds
1.5 cups filtered water
a crushed vanilla bean or 1 tsp alcohol-free natural vanilla essence
1 tsp dairy-free pro-biotic powder*
2 ripe or overripe bananas
1 tbsp (or be more generous! yum!) raw carob bean powder
pinch to 1/2 tsp spirulina powder
tiny pinch of sea salt

Method
Add almonds, water, vanilla and pro-biotic powder to blender, blend until smooth (it will be slightly warm by this stage, activating the pro-biotic). Add remaining ingredients, blend until well combined. Serves 2.

Notes
Serve over ice if you’d prefer your drink cooled rather than room temperature-ish, or use refrigerated or frozen bananas.

You can store it in the fridge for a 2-4 days, during which the pro-biotics will flourish.

*Animal-free/dairy-free pro-biotic powders typically contain lactobacillus acidophilus, bifidobacterium lactis, and/or oligofructos. These are fungus-like, unicellular microorganisms, also found in soy yogurt, similar to yeast, from the bacteria kingdom rather than animal. Unlike animals, they don’t have capacity for suffering, thinking, etc, and you’ll be giving the blighters a happy home inside you anyhow! And they will help maintain your gut flora health. The point is: it’s vegan.

Posted in breakfast, raw food, smoothies | 5 Comments

5 Responses to “Carob Banana Breakfast Smoothie Treat!”

on March 22, 2008 at 5:42 am1 George

This smoothie is awesome!! I also use whole vanilla beans, and have experimented with different varieties for different flavors as well! The Mexican vanilla beans from http://www.beanilla.com go so well with the almonds!

Thanks!
on April 14, 2008 at 1:57 pm2 ChelB

This recipe looks great!! : ) I love bananas and have been a big fan of carob from childhood! I’m a 70’s baby so grew up with homemade carob cookies. I am new to using spirulina powder so this may be my first recipe. I’m super excited that I found your blog!
on May 5, 2008 at 7:26 am3 tuimeltje

Sounds delish! I never considered chucking pro-biotics in my smoothies. Will try that next time I make some.
on May 15, 2008 at 3:01 am4 Pro « Twigs and Tofu

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on May 27, 2008 at 5:59 pm5 Not-Carob « Twigs and Tofu

[...] by tuimeltje in breakfast. Tags: smoothie trackback Since I still occasionally think of that carob-banana smoothie, I thought I’d prepare me some sort of approximation of it since I still don’t actually [...]