Chocolate Smoothie Bowl
A great alternative to a smoothie drink, this chocolate smoothie bowl is made with yoghurt, banana, tahini, cocoa, chia seeds, oats and topped up with cocoa nibs, bananas and other toppings of your choice. Perfect as a breakfast or a healthy snack.
Equipment
- Blender or food processor
Ingredients
Chocolate Smoothie Base
- 1 cup white yoghurt Greek yoghurt, dairy free, plant based yoghurt
- 1 banana
- 1 tablespoon tahini light paste
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds
- 1 tablespoon flaxmeal seeds ground
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon oats
- tiny pinch of fine salt
Toppings - choose 2-3
- few slices of bananas
- 1 tablespoon cocoa nibs
- 1 tablespoon walnuts ground or roughtly chooped
- 1 tablespoon coconut flakes or sheded coconut
- 1 teaspoon honey agave syrup or date surup to drizzle over the toppings
Instructions
- Add the yoghurt, cocoa powder, tahini, banana, oats, flaxseeds, chia seeds and a few grains of salt into a food processor or a blender. Blend everything until it's thick and smooth.
- Taste the chocolate smoothie and adjust the taste by adding any sweetener (e.g. honey) or more cocoa powder.
- Pour or spoon the chocolate smoothie into breakfast bowl.
- Top the smoothie with bananas, cocoa nibs, coconut flakes, walnuts or any other toppings of your choice.
- The chocolate smoothie bowl is ready to be eaten straightaway, but you can leave it for 10-20 minutes to allow for the dry ingredients to absorbe more water and make the smoothie even more digestible.
Notes
This recipe is for 1 large serving of breakfast smoothie bowl, which replaces a breakfast. Alternatively, you can make it into 2 smaller portions for smaller appetites or use it as a pudding or an afternoon healthy snack.