Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie
I love breakfast smoothies. I bet everyone has crazy mornings and if you want to prepare a healthy breakfast but within 10 minutes, smoothies are your best bet. Today I am going to share a simple smoothie made with readily available ingredients. All you need is milk, banana, peanut butter, and sugar to prepare this glass of goodness. Most of the time I pack idlis and dosas for lunch and prepare these smoothies for our breakfast. I need to step out of the house by 6:30 AM, so my choices are limited. Luckily we all have early lunch including the kid at 11:30 AM so this setup works for us. This smoothie is perfect for kids too. Vaandu has his breakfast essential drink for the morning. I usually give this smoothie to the kiddo during the evening. Bananas are available throughout the year, and we all know that bananas are a good source of potassium, an essential mineral for maintaining healthy blood pressure and heart function. One medium-sized banana contains 400+ mg of potassium and including banana in your daily meal help to prevent high blood pressure. The unique mix of vitamins, minerals and low glycemic carbohydrates in bananas has made them a favorite fruit among athletes. Source: whfoods.
I have already mentioned about the protein content in peanut butter and needless to say about the vitamin D in milk. So when you mix milk, banana, and peanut butter, you sure get a sufficient amount of the vitamins and minerals.
Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie
Ingredients:
Ripe Banana – 1 Peanut Butter – 2 tsp Sugar – 1 tsp Milk – 1 cup
Steps:
Peel the banana and chop into chunks. (I usually break them with hands) Add the chopped bananas, peanut butter, sugar and milk in a blender or mixer. Blend until smooth.
That’s it. The peanut butter banana smoothie is ready. Serve chilled.
Notes:
Sugar is optional. I used all natural, old fashioned peanut butter which has no sugar. But if used the regular chunky ones with sugar, you can skip the sugar. Along with banana, you can use other fruits too. Instead of peanut butter, you can use protein powder of your choice or flax meal, or you can use it along with peanut butter too.
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