Healthy Shamrock Shake Recipe
Ingredients
- 2-3 frozen bananas
- 1 big handful of washed baby spinach
- 1 cup regular coconut milk
- 3-4 tablespoons honey
- A big handful fresh mint
- Additional toppings: more mint, whipped cream, chocolate chips
Instructions
- In your blender add the coconut milk, bananas, spinach, mint, and honey. Blend everything together until it's the Shake consistency you enjoy most. Taste and add additional coconut milk, honey, or mint until you reach the flavor you like most.
- Drink as is, or top with whipped cream or any toppings you prefer!
Notes
Very ripe bananas tastes the best (in my opinion) for this recipe. You can use normal bananas, but the beverage won't be so naturally sweet.
To freeze bananas, take them out of their peel, cut them into chunks, and store in freezer bags. When completely frozen, take them out of the freezer and pop into your blender when needed.
This recipe is so adaptable you can make it with regular milk, coconut milk, soy milk, almond milk, honey, agave nectar, sugar, fresh mint, mint extract, the list goes on and on. Frozen bananas are the base, you add a handful of spinach for the green coloring (you can't taste the spinach, so don't be grossed out), approx 1 cup of your favorite liquid, your favorite sweetener, and lastly either fresh mint or mint extract, and you have yourself a homemade, healthier version of the Shamrock Shake. Dude, additionally you could use green food coloring if you loath spinach and want to skip it.
Use my recipe as a guideline but adjust for your own tastes. Depending on your flavor preference, you may want the Shamrock Shake sweeter, thinner or thicker, or have a stronger mint flavor. Keep adding ingredients until you find the perfect balance for you. If you Shamrock Shake is too thin, add ice cubes to thicken it. If your Shamrock Shake is too thick, thin it out with additional coconut milk or your favorite liquid. Note, the riper the banana the better for this recipe. Non-rip bananas can be used, but they don't lend the natural sweetness I prefer in this recipe.
I tried this recipe with both regular and lite coconut milk. Even though regular has more fat and calories, I preferred the taste to lite coconut milk tremendously. Use lite coconut milk if you prefer it, but I thought it had a funky aftertaste.