5 ingredients avocado smoothie recipe

This avocado smoothie recipe can be perfect for a complete breakfast or a snack, it’s thick, creamy and very healthy. We know that adding avocado to smoothies sound strange and maybe you haven’t thought about this combination before, but believe us, you’ll be surprised when you taste it.

This avocado shake is really healthy and unbelievable creamy, they even taste like a vanilla milkshake, don’t know how this happen but it’s true, if you follow the steps and try it you’ll see that it’s true.

You just need 5 ingredients and one minute or less of preparation, this healthy avocado smoothie recipe worth to be try at least once, but maybe after you try it you will continue preparing it for you, your family and friends, you can surprise them a lot giving them this smoothie.

Can you add other fruits to the avocado shake?

Of course you can, this will add other exotic and tropical flavors, fruits like cherries, strawberries, cucumber, apple, blueberries or banana, preferably banana.

You can even turn it to a smoothie with avocado and chocolate, we know this combination sounds weird, but taste good, you can do it adding a spoonful of cocoa powder and a little extra sugar or stevia to counter the bitterness of the cocoa. You can make and avocado protein shake adding your protein powder if you go to gym.

Can you feel the flavor of avocado?

The avocado add a lot of thickness and creaminess, but you actually don’t notice the flavor a lot, most people don’t notice it, but there are different types of palates, some more sensitive and others not so much, but even then the flavor is only slight.

Vegan smoothie

If you don’t drink milk, you can replace it with coconut milk, soy milk, almond cashew milk or oat milk.

Avocado drink low in carbs

Naturally, avocados are low in carbs, but you can use stevia instead regular sugar, but there are different types of sugar, add the one you use usually.

The correct way to make an avocado smoothie

The first thing you have to do is be sure that the avocado is ripe, you can know if it’s ripe squeezing it gently, It’s ripe if it yields slightly to the pressure and feels just a little bit soft but not mushy.

If the avocado you bought is too hard, wait some days until it get ripe, if you want to accelerate the process, you can place the avocado inside a brown paper bag or wrap the avocado in a piece of newspaper and wait for one or two days, you can put another fruit inside, such as an apple or banana.

To prepare the avocado in smoothie, peel it very well, don’t waste the pulp leaving pieces in the skin, discard the pit and blend the rest.

Ingedients

• 1/2 of a large avocado or preferably 2 or 3 avocado hass, they are little but more delicious.
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract.
• 1 1/2 cups of milk, the one you consume.
• Sweetener of choice, such as 2 tsp pure maple syrup, stevia or regular sugar.
• 1/8 tsp salt
• scoop of protein powder or chocolate powder, optional.

Preparation

Peel the avocado and discard the pit or seed, put all the ingredients in a blender and mix until you get a smooth texture, you can add some ice cubes, or or coconut milk ice cubes to get a thick and ice cream texture smooth.

You can easily make coconut milk ice cubes by adding the milk in a ice cube tray, it can be canned coconut milk or directly from the coconut.

This avocado smoothie recipe is for two glasses but you can double the ingredients.