This weekend was I was little busy as my prince turned 2 year on this Saturday, and we had a small party at our house. I cooked a few dishes for the party, but bought a cake from Walmart as I was not in a mood to bake one. He enjoyed his birthday and had a blast, running all over the place and playing with kids. Also last week when I was in dentist office for my daughter tooth extraction. As I was sitting in the Dr’s office glancing the magazines, I saw this recipe of Mocha banana dates smoothie in the Red book Magazine. The recipe looked interesting; and also was termed as skinny version in the book hence I decided to try it.
As I was looking at the ingredients I realized that my kids most likely would not drink it as it would most likely be slightly bitter from cocoa powder. So I changed recipe slightly by adding dates to the smoothie, and also used instant coffee powder for left over coffee and instead of almond butter(which I did not have in my hand), I substituted with 6 almonds which correspond to 1 tablespoon of almond butter according to this site. It is great one to start your breakfast or as evening snack. You can skip the dates if you don’t want additional sugar in your smoothie.
Normally I won’t keep frozen banana in my freezer, however my daughter’s favorite kids serial Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood has one episode where Daniel tiger and his mom make Banana Swirl Ice Cream using a frozen banana. So I had kept one banana frozen in my freezer used that for making this smoothie. I have to make her a banana swirl ice cream for which I have another frozen banana sitting in the freezer.
Make sure to soak dates for few hours in water, so that it won’t hurt the blender blade. Add frozen banana, instant coffee powder, water, milk, 6 almonds, 5 soaked dates and 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder and blend well, enjoy you will love it. I am 100% sure about that.
Here comes the recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 large frozen banana, cut into chunks
- ½ cup water
- ½ teaspoon instant coffee powder*
- ½ cup 2% milk
- 1 Tbsp cocoa powder, plus more for dusting
- 6 almonds or 1 Tbsp almond butter
- Chocolate-covered espresso beans, for garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Place banana, ½ teaspoon instant coffee powder, water, milk, soaked dates, cocoa powder, and almonds in a blender and blend until smooth, about 1 minute.
- Pour smoothie into a glass. Dust with cocoa powder and top with a few crushed chocolate-covered espresso beans, if desired.
Notes
This Recipe is adapted from Redbook Magazine Copyright ©2014 Zesty South Indian Kitchen by Swathi( Ambujom Saraswathy) All Rights Reserved
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This is Swathi ( Ambujom Saraswathy) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Hmmmm .. I wont mind having a cup or two .
delicious 🙂
hmm looks like everywhere ur seeing only recipes hahaha .This sound like a intresting smoothie.I tried the frozen banana ones and it was so cold that we couldnt take it as it is .How much time can we freeze the banana ,any ideas ?.ne more is like does the bananas blend well ?.Thanks for ur patience in ansering my questions swathi .By the way belated wishes to smart boy .
MyKitchenOdyssey
Yes I am crazy about recipes he hehe. You can bring the frozen banana to room temp for 5 minutes and then blend it that way it won’t feel that cold. Thanks for the birthday wishes.
Interesting and tempting click.
I have one more banana left. I’m headed to put it in the freezer for tomorrow morning! A smoothie with a kick. Love it!
Such healthy smoothie… and looks really delicious 🙂
Yummy smoothie and I will try this soon
this just looks like my kind of breakfast smoothie!!! definitely going to make this soon…
Very healthy, wholesome and filling breakfast smoothie
Love the combination for coffee and coco and the banana add up more deliciousness.
Love this wonderful combo, beautiful and super tempting….
Wow super tempting smoothie
Delicious and healthy.Wonderfully captured 🙂
Yummy healthy milk shake beautifully presented.
Healthy smoothie..
That sounds like a delicious smoothie! Hope you enjoyed your weekend 🙂
Happy Blogging!
Happy Valley Chow
Healthy and delicious smoothie. Would like to have a sip from this tall glass.
Wow lovely clicks and recipe loved it dear
This sounds so good and refreshing. Happy Birthday to your son
What a delicious smoothie, I simply adore dates and bananas together 😀
Cheers
CCU
wow… fabulous recipe… mouth watering…
Healthy and filling smoothie.
such a filling colorful smoothie! Would make my breakfast.. Pass me the glass
Perfect start for the day, coffee to wake you up and banana & nuts to fill you up 🙂
Going to try this Swathi, so simple, yet so delicious and I love the coffee flavor..
Kid will love this,healthy milk shake.
yummy and healthy combo swati..belated happy birthday to little one…
Interesting combo ..the smoothie looks really delicious
Very healthy and refreshing smoothie !