Add a few fresh mint or basil leaves for an herbaceous spin. Use ¼ to ½ teaspoon vanilla to heighten the flavors. Use about 1 tablespoon, 2 for a stronger almond flavor (it will also dull the color a bit). Of course, you can mix in whatever you’d like to customize your healthy strawberry smoothie! But at the same time: if you want it to be perfect, you’ve got to use flavors that work. Then for the yogurt, use vegan yogurt or another ½ banana. You could also try coconut milk, which adds a nice coconut essence, or soy milk. Oat milk is usually a little sweeter and creamier so we tend to like that a little more.
Substitute non-dairy milk AND vegan yogurt or ½ banana for the yogurt. Try our Strawberry Banana Smoothie: it’s vegan and uses only 2 ingredients! You can make this strawberry smoothie plant-based or vegan by doing the following: If you eat a low sugar diet you could omit, but it doesn’t quite taste sweet enough with no sweetener. Maple syrup: Adding a hint of maple brings out the sweetness in the berries. Not enough and the blender gets stuck (the worst!), and too much it tastes milky. Milk: You need just the right amount of liquid in a smoothie to get it to blend. We’ve tried it without and it really makes a difference. Ice: Here’s the most important part - ice is essential to a perfect strawberry smoothie! It makes just the right frothy texture. (If you love yogurt you could add a touch more.) It also makes for a perfect creamy texture. Greek yogurt: Greek yogurt gives this recipe a protein boost and helpful probiotics. So we customized this one to use a fresh banana. Fresh banana: Our pet peeve is smoothie recipes that call for frozen bananas, because we never keep them on hand! Usually we want a smoothie recipe now. 
If you want to use fresh berries, use a frozen banana.
Frozen strawberries: It’s easy to find and store frozen berries, and they add a great icy texture to this smoothie. Here’s what you’ll need to make this strawberry smoothie! Alex and I were careful to choose healthy ingredients for this smoothie: no overly sugary juices or syrups. This strawberry smoothie is lightly sweet, with just the right berry essence. It’s also easy to cover up the “signature” flavor. Flavor is the variable: often smoothies are too bitter or overly sweet. This one is light and creamy, with just the right icy and airy texture. It’s easy for smoothies to turn out too icy or thick. 
So we decided: why not master smoothies? We started with this strawberry smoothie recipe. Make it, memorize it, and make a perfect healthy smoothie on repeat! What makes it a perfect strawberry smoothie?Īlex and I have been cooking for years and have a vegetarian cookbook under our belt, have mastered techniques like sourdough bread and pizza and lots of cocktails. Alex and I have finally found our perfect strawberry smoothie recipe, which is below. But for the perfect creamy texture and the perfect just sweet enough fruit flavor? You’ve got to know something about smoothies. Sure, you can throw random fruit and yogurt in the blender and whiz it up. Have you met a perfect strawberry smoothie? Smoothies aren’t as easy to throw together it seems. Here’s the most perfect strawberry smoothie you’ll find! It’s easy to blend up and has the best creamy texture and fruity flavor.
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