Rainbow Smoothie

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 2 servings
  • Total: 5 min
  • Active: 5 min
Feeling like a pink drink? Or is yellow more your style? Make our smoothie base, then choose from the color additions to customize your drink to whatever hue you wish.
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Ingredients

Banana-Avocado Smoothie Base:

2/3 cup unsweetened almond milk

1 tablespoon ground flax seeds

1 tablespoon honey

1 medium ripe banana

1/2 ripe avocado

1 cup ice cubes

Make it Pink:

1 cup frozen strawberries, thawed

1 pre-cooked beet, diced

Make it Yellow:

1 cup diced frozen mango, thawed

1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric

Make it Green:

1 cup frozen green grapes

1/2 cup kale leaves

1/2 cup diced pineapple

Make it Purple:

1 1/2 cups frozen blueberries, thawed

Directions

  1. For the banana-avocado smoothie base: Put the almond milk, flax seeds, honey, banana and avocado in a blender. Blend on high until the mixture is mostly smooth, about 1 minute. Add the ice cubes and blend until completely smooth.
  2. To make it pink, yellow, green or purple: Add the color additions and blend again until completely smooth.

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