Spinach Smoothie

What are your favorite green smoothie ingredients? Make this easy spinach smoothie recipe using spinach, avocado and berries. This smoothie is ready in just 10 minutes.

If you are part of my generation, your love of spinach comes from ONE character!

Yes, that character is Popeye!!

Popeye has left an ineradicable mark on my taste buds!

This spinach smoothie is going to make your taste buds go wild with pleasure. It’s also packed with nutrition!

Originally published on January 9th, 2015 at 4:14pm. Click here to see why this recipe was updated.

Green smoothie ingredients

Here is a quick look at the ingredients. It is to understand why these specific ingredients were chosen. To get the full recipe, go to the bottom of this post.

Spinach – It’s rich in Magnesium and chlorophyll. Magnesium is essential for muscles to function correctly. Chlorophyll helps in the fight against cancer. It’s high in iron but it’s not in a readily bioavailable form. Source: Humana.com and UAMShealth.com.

Berries – Use either raspberries or blackberries. Spinach has oxalates in it and also the Iron in it is hard to absorb. The vitamin C in berries helps fight the oxalates and also help in Iron absorption. Source: American Academy of CPR and First Aid.

Spirulina – Full disclosure, I didn’t have spirulina on hand, so I didn’t add it to this recipe. However, you can add it if you have it in your pantry. (Affiliate Link) This is the one I use. It’s a powerhouse of nutrition because it contains chlorophyll, great for bone density and it’s a complete source of protein. Source: NASA and WellandGood.com.

Avocado – I have been screaming from rooftops that avocado is a super food that we all MUST be eating. It’s packed with good fats that keep us satiated and also help lower blood sugar levels. It has a ton of good fiber and potassium. Source: NutritionalValue.org.

Chia seeds and Hemp seeds – They have a tone of protein and calcium, both of which are absolutely essential to the human body.

🌿 Spinach tip: Use frozen spinach because they are frozen at their peak freshness. Thaw it overnight by placing it in the refrigerator section.

How to make spinach smoothie

1. Place the thawed spinach in a colander and then run it under cold water for about 30 seconds. Squeeze out all the water from the spinach.
2. In a blender, add the chia seeds and blend it until it’s roughly ground.
3. Now, add all the remaining ingredients to the blender.
4. Blend until it has a smoothie texture. It’s now ready to be served.

❄️ Frozen Tip: In this recipe, it’s fine to use frozen bananas, berries and avocado. They will make this a very silky smooth smoothie.

Answering Common Questions

🍵 Protein tip: Spirulina is a huge protein and iron source. This means adding additional protein powders is unnecessary.

Save time and prep in advance

The good news is that it’s easy to freeze the ingredients in a zip lock bag. Then drop them into a blender when you are ready to eat.

Here is a mind-blowing yogurt tip: Freeze Greek yogurt in ice cube trays!! I pour in about 2-3Tbsps of Greek yogurt and 1tsp of spirulina per ice cube hole. When I need it, I just remove a few cubes and dump them in the blender.

I remove the packaging of one 10oz frozen spinach and put it in a ziplock bag. To that bag, I add berries, banana, hemp seeds, chia seeds and flax seeds (ground or regular).

When I am ready to make the smoothie, I will dump the ingredients of the zip lock bag into a smoothie blender. Then, add 3 cubes of frozen yogurt and monk fruit. I blend it up and my smoothie is ready in minutes!

Now, I never say that I don’t have time to make a healthy smoothie. You can’t use that excuse either!

And, if you love this green veggie smoothie, you will fall in love with this easy broccoli smoothie! It’s packed with so much goodness. This green detox juice is also a good way to start the day.

These green smoothie is perfect for breakfast and you can also have a side of this protein banana muffins. Together, they pack quite a good protein punch.

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🧊 Handy Tip: Pour 2-3 Tbsp of Greek yogurt into ice cube trays and freeze them. Drop those ice cube yogurt into smoothies.

Try these spinach recipes

• Spinach is the star in this easy Spinach and bagel chips salad. It’s easy to make in minutes and it tastes so good.
• Want to get kids to eat it? Make this easy spinach artichoke pinwheels and they will devour it.
• Butternut squash risotto will taste that much better because there spinach is in it.
• Spinach is called palak in Hindi which is a common ingredient in Indian foods. Palak makhani is one of my all time favorite recipes to order.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 5 minutes mins

Total Time 10 minutes mins

Course Breakfast, brunch

Cuisine American

Servings 3 people

Calories 250 kcal

Equipment

• 1 Smoothie Blender
• 1 Colander

Ingredients

  

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• 10 oz frozen spinach thawed overnight in the refrigerator section
• 2 Tbsp chia seeds
• 1 cup frozen berries I used blackberries, raspberries and blueberries
• ½ banana freeze a ripe banana overnight
• ½ avocado
• 1 Tbsp spirulina use organic spirulina
• 3 tsp monk fruit See notes for the brand I use
• 2 Tbsp hemp seeds
• 1 cup Greek yogurt
• 1 cup water or use milk of choice.

Instructions

 

• Place the thawed spinach in a colander and then run it under cold water for about 30 seconds.
• Squeeze out all the water from the spinach.
• In a blender, add the chia seeds and blend it until it’s roughly ground.
• Now, add all the remaining ingredients to the blender.
• Blend until it has a smoothie texture. It’s now ready to be served.

Notes

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TIPS

– For this recipe, I use BESTI brand monk fruit allulose sugar.  Use granulated or powdered version.

– Note that the sugar level should be adjusted, if your berries are very ripe and sweet. 

– Use frozen spinach because they are frozen at their peak freshness. Thaw it overnight by placing it in the refrigerator section.

– In this recipe, it’s fine to use frozen bananas, berries and avocado. They will make this a very silky smooth smoothie.

– Spirulina is a huge protein and iron source. This means adding additional protein powders is unnecessary.

– Pour 2-3 Tbsp of Greek yogurt in ice cube trays and freeze them. Drop those frozen ice cube yogurt into smoothies.

Nutrition

Calories: 250kcal

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Version 1

Seriously, how could have EVER taken such horrendous pics! Yes, the photo needed updating which was one of the reasons for re-doing the post.

There is a greater reason for re-doing this post. I wanted to make it more protein focused and I also wanted to remove the bad sugars from it. So, I added Greek yogurt and spirulina to the spinach.

Additionally, to help absorb as much of the iron as possible, I added berries to it. Berries are packed with Vitamin C and they make it easier to absorb the iron from spinach.

Click here if you want to see my original smoothie recipe.

Originally published on January 9th, 2015 at 4:14pm.