Green Protein Smoothie
It took me quite a while to finally try adding spinach to one of my morning protein shakes.
I mean, I love spinach and all…but…in my smoothie???
Then, on a wild and crazy whim, I decided to just go for it.
And it was super good!
For this green protein smoothie, I use a frozen banana, peanut butter (because: yum!), coconut milk, and fresh baby spinach along with the vanilla protein powder. The color turns a pretty green so you can start feeling all goddess-like, if you’re into that sort of thing.
If you’d like, you could swap or half-and-half the spinach with fresh, raw kale.
It’s really pretty darn tasty…it will leave you feeling satisfied, refreshed, rejuvenated, and nourished for sure. Which is pretty much anything you can ask for in a protein smoothie.
I’ve yet to jump on the kale in my smoothie bandwagon, but it’s not far off in the distance. I even finally got Dustin to try this spinach green protein smoothie so anything’s possible, if you ask me.
If you’d like more protein shakes and smoothie recipes, check out the following:
- Strawberry Protein Shake
- Almond Butter, Coffee, And Chocolate Shake
- Orange Protein Shake
- Chocolate, Banana & Peanut Butter Shake
- Banana Protein Shake
- Blueberry Shake
- Peach Protein Shake
- 1 cup unsweetened coconut milk
- 1 banana frozen
- 1 tbsp peanut butter
- 1½ cups fresh baby spinach lightly packed
- 1 scoop vanilla protein powder
- Ice as needed
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Starting with the unsweetened coconut milk, place all the ingredients into a blender. You could also use almond or rice milk, if you preferred.
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Blend until fully pureed. This may take a little extra time to get all the spinach leaves fully broken down.
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Add more ice cubes until the desired consistency is met.
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If it happens to get too thick, you can add some more coconut milk, little by little.
Recipe Video
I’m curious how you were able to keep the calories so low… if I do the math a lot of these are pretty high-calorie ingredients (have you found a low-cal coconut milk??)
1 cup coconut milk, Goya = 400 calories
1 banana = 100 calories
1 TBSP peanut butter = 90 calories
Protein powder = 50-200 calories depending on the brand
That would put this smoothie at somewhere between 600-800 calories (tasty, but yikes!). I love love love the flavor of coconut milk, but I feel like I can’t use it in anything when I’m counting my calories 🙁
I use regular refrigerated coconut milk, not canned full fat coconut milk. That’s a big diff in calories 🙂
My kids love to drink different types of smoothie. They don’t like a vegetable, so this is the best way to give them the vegetable. I will prepare it for them.
Instead of spinach can I add kale instead?
Can’t believe that I like green smoothie now. I remember when you first did this one lol.
Can i replace pb with PB2 to help keep calories down?