Tropical fruit smoothie
Easy
2 servings
2 serves of fruit
5m preparation
5m cooking
Ingredients
- ½ ripe banana, frozen, roughly chopped
- 1 mango cheek, frozen, roughly chopped
- ½ cup pineapple pieces canned in natural juice (including juice)
- 1 cup low-fat milk
- pulp of 1 passionfruit
Method
- Place frozen fruit, pineapple and milk into a blender jug and blend until smooth.
- Pour into 2 serving glasses.
- Spoon pulp of half a passionfruit on top of each smoothie and serve immediately.
Hint
When plentiful, mango flesh and ripe peeled bananas can be frozen in ziplock bags for use in smoothies and fruit.
Alternatives
- Include fruits such as frozen blueberries or raspberries, strawberries and canned or fresh peeled peaches, apricots or pears.
- Replace ½ cup milk with 200mL tub natural, vanilla, mango or passionfruit flavoured yoghurt.
- Add a few drops of coconut essence for a ‘pina colada’ flavour.
Storage Suggestions
- Serve immediately.
Equipment List
- Blender
- 2 serving glasses
- spoon
Acknowledgements
Recipe from LiveLighter® campaign © State of Western Australia 2012 reproduced with permission.
