My morning meals have been mostly smoothies for the last couple of weeks – most likely because I have stepped up my fitness quite a bit as I am training for a summer duathlon (run – bike – run). I love a tall, liquid breakfast after a workout. Yesterday was a rest day from exercise; I wanted all the powerful nutrition of a smoothie but was most definitely craving a new texture.
I grabbed my usual smoothie ingredients (frozen fruit/ice, something green, plant-based milk, flax or chia seeds and a date or other natural sweetener). I simply altered the amounts of each ingredient and suddenly I was eating a beautiful bowl of green ice cream. Same great ingredients – completely different mouthfeel experience.
Green Ice Cream
Ingredients (Serves 2)
- Spinach (a generous handful)
- 1 Medjool date, pitted
- 3 large frozen strawberries
- 1 frozen banana
- 1 tablespoon ground flax seeds
- 1/4 cup soy milk (or preferred plant-based milk)
- Ice cubes (just a few)
Instructions
- Add all ingredients, in order listed, to a high-speed blender.
- Blend for just a few minutes, to desired ice cream consistency.
- Serve and enjoy!
This ice cream is smooth, filling and packed with nutritious flavor.
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Great minds… my breakfast looked exactly like that today, except I used butternut squash to get mine creamy. 3 cheers for breakfast-desserts!
Hip hip hurray!
You are awesome – this look s absolutely amazing. Green breakfasts are the best!!
Ha! Thanks! Anything to get out of a rut when it comes to breakfast! 🙂
I have never tried a green smoothie. I’ll have to give it a try one day. A dualathon would be fun. I’m not much of a swimmer but can run and bike. Good luck with your race this summer.
I love triathlon but I just can’t make time in my schedule this year for three sports. Running and cycling is easy because they both start from my house – don’t have to drive somewhere!
Best of luck with the training! I find biking is ridiculously tough, my legs transform into a strange mix of strained muscles and jelly ahhahah, so I can’t imagine how fun running would be afterwards, you must have amazing endurance JL, kudos to ya!A run/swim/run duathlon would pretty cool though, hope one pops up in my city someday soon.
Ahh, this recipe is perfection, strawberries + banana + spinach = green trinity of awesome? 😀 I adore adding random green stuff to pretty much everything I can get away with (months ago I discovered how awesome my morning raw buckwheat “porridge” tastes with several cup-fulls of greens blended up!), so this is just lovely, no more plain banana soft serve for me then.
Off to freeze some bananas, this’ll be a great treat for mum’s day, I’ll sneak in some cacoa/carob powder ’cause she loves the choco!
Thanks for the recipe, have a great end of the week!
Wow, I just love your idea of blended greens in a porridge! Clever and delicious!
Yum yum yum!!!
Even my husband liked it! LOL
What an interesting ice cream!
A little nutty, right? But it works!