This sweet and creamy avocado smoothie is perfect for a quick breakfast or an afternoon snack. It only contains three ingredients and tastes even better than ice cream!
Sometimes a great recipe doesn’t need to be complicated. This avocado banana smoothie is one of the best ideas that I came up so far! Although the recipe does not contain vanilla, it’s so creamy and tastes like vanilla ice cream. No, even better than ice cream!
The Epic Fail
Once again, a good idea came from a failed recipe. Since I made the avocado milkshake, which tastes amazing by the way, I started to ponder ways to make the recipe healthier. I came up with this idea to replace the ice cream with plain yogurt and use honey to add sweetness. I did it all wrong.
First of all, I made a bad call by freezing the yogurt. I wanted to make a cold drink and thought it’d be more convenient to add frozen yogurt instead of ice cubes. Turns out, freezing the yogurt alters the texture of the yogurt significantly, and it just doesn’t feel right. I also realized that I killed all the good bacteria in the yogurt by freezing it! First lesson learned: if nobody has done it before, there is probably a good reason.
The failure didn’t stop there. I picked an avocado that was not fully ripened. Oops! That was the only avocado left at home and I really wanted to try the recipe. So I used it anyway. The result? The avocado was so tough that it could not even be blended with the other ingredients after 5 minutes of mixing. There were small, chewy chunks of avocado in the finished drink. OUCH! Lesson 2: you can’t force something to happen before the time is right.
The failure didn’t end there, either. I used date flower honey in the smoothie. This type of honey has a dark amber color and a very unique date flavor. It works amazingly as a topper for Greek yogurt, but not at all in a smoothie. I could taste a strange flavor coming from the honey after the drink was blended. Lesson 3: not every ingredient needs to be healthy.
Heartbroken was the feeling after the epic failure of creating a healthy avocado smoothie. But luckily, I didn’t stop there.
Just Get Over It and Get Yo’ Feet Back on the Ground!
I remembered my boyfriend used to freeze ripe bananas and use them in smoothies, which tasted great. I tried the same. There were some very ripe bananas at home that I didn’t have time to finish before they became too ripe. I threw them in the freezer and decided to use them in a smoothie later. I think frozen bananas are really handy for smoothies, because they cool down the drink and add sweetness at the same time.
This time I decided to use milk instead of yogurt. The banana and avocado are creamy and thick in texture, so I needed something to dilute it. I didn’t add any sweetener at the beginning. I wanted to see how the smoothie went at first, and add sugar later if needed. Turns out it doesn’t need any! The ripe bananas were sweet enough and the smoothie tasted perfect!
There was one moment when preparing this, I thought, hmmm, this recipe is so simple, maybe I should add something else? But luckily, I couldn’t think of anything that I wanted to add into the smoothie. What a great decision! Lesson 4: sometimes less is more.
Here we are. You only need 3 ingredients and 5 minutes to finish up a quick breakfast, a post run snack, or a simple dinner. Oh wait, there’s an added bonus. You now have another way to get rid of overripe bananas, other than making banana bread! Isn’t it amazing? 😉
The Best Three-Ingredient Avocado Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 Avocado , cubed
- 2 frozen banana , chopped
- 400 milliliters (14 ounces) milk
Instructions
- Combine avocado, banana and milk in a blender. Blend until smooth.
- Serve immediately.
Just found your site when doing a search for avocado smoothies, and I’m so glad I did! Who knew such a simple recipe would yield such great results!? So creamy, so smooth, and other than the slightly greenish color, you’d never know it had avocado in it. Simply lovely! And, it seems like it would be a great base for other flavors, like cocoa, cinnamon, coconut, pineapple, Etc. Thank you for your sticktoitiveness to come up with such a great recipe, and thank you for sharing it. Looking forward perusing the rest of your site!
Hi Maggie, I have two avacado trees at my house (one of them is not as productive)and we usualy end up throwing them away because noone knows what to do with them but Im so glad I came across your recepie! Ive tried it a few times without the milk and it tastes great too.Do you have anyother avacado recepies? I would love to know. Thanks!
Great job on the recipe. It’s perfect
Your way of giving tips abt do’s and don’ts s fabulous. Thank you so much I didn’t end up with a disaster just because of them.
Love this smoothie! I added some dark chocolate cocoa powder (!) chia seeds and sliced almonds and it is just divine.
First of all, I must make it clear how much I love this smoothie. I leave for work M-Sat at 430am and this smoothie is something quick to make in the morn and plenty filling to last me almost til lunchtime. I must ask if there is a way to pre make it and store it just for a couple hours? It would be really helpful
Hi Sean, I think you can store the smoothie in the fridge for a couple of hours without any problems. It might thicken quite a bit so you might want to add more liquid (water or milk) to dilute it.
Surprising delight!!
Do you freeze the bananas peeled and chopped or keep them whole?
Best wishes
I always peel and chop the bananas before freezing.
Hey Maggie, the smoothie looks delicious! I would drink a smoothie everyday.! I’ve done the same thing with freezing yogurt too.. Thanks for sharing the lovable avocado smoothies..
Used almond milk in the recipe and it is vert delicious.
Added my daily dose of collegen powder and an ice cube or two.
Yum.
Thanks for getting me started on this smoothie!
Hi Maggie, his was so easy to make and was excellent! Highly recommend everyone try this recipe!
Thank you for the insight on Avocado smoothies. I’m going to try it. The only problem is I have frozen cubed Avo that I stored because I had so much on my tree and didn’t want it to be waited. So do you think I can use frozen Avocado with frozen banana? Thank uou
Hi Kemi, I think the frozen avocado will work just well!
It is nice to hear about this nice taste
My smoothie has a few more ingredients but it so yummy it’s like having a milk shake for breakfast I use the frozen banana, avocado, frozen strawberries a handful of red seedless grapes, milk and sometimes canalope. Tomorrow I am going to add some benefiberand flax seed. What do you think?
I added a dash of cinnamon to the recipe & hands down :THE best smoothie I’ve ever had in my entire life! Way to go!
I really enjoyed this smoothie. Mine was kind of bland so I added some lemon juice and honey!
Hi MAGGIE, I made this last night and it was amazing.
Thank you!! I halved the recipe and used a frozen banana. So creamy and delicious!
Awesome recipe! Thanks!
Went to the store today and got avocados, bananas, and milk. Going to test this recipe ASAP.
Absolutely delicious…just wish the calorie count was a bit lower, but while it may be a more calories than my normal ice cream indulgent dessert, I love the all natural / no added sugar ingredients!
Goes great with 2% FairLife milk – very creamy (and yes, like a soft ice cream) and the FairLife lowers the sugar and gives a bit of a protein boost