Chocolate for breakfast? Hard yes. This decadent-tasting almond milk smoothie may seem like straight-up dessert, but with chocolate, cherries and granola, it’s actually an energy-packed way to start your day or end a workout.
Cherry-Almond Granola Smoothies
- Prep Time 10 min
- Total 10 min
- Servings 2
- Ingredients 7
Ingredients
- 1 frozen banana, halved
- 1 cup frozen dark sweet cherries (from 10-oz bag)
- 3/4 cup original unsweetened almond milk
- 2 tablespoons Justin's™ Classic almond butter (from 16-oz jar)
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1/2 cup Cascadian Farm™ organic oats & honey granola (from 16-oz box)
- 2 tablespoons shaved dark chocolate (from 3-oz bar)
Instructions
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Step1In blender, place frozen banana, cherries, almond milk, almond butter and honey. Cover; blend on high speed 1 to 2 minutes, scraping down sides of blender as necessary, until smooth
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Step2Pour into 2 glasses. Top with granola and chocolate. Serve immediately.
Nutrition
400
Calories
16g
Total Fat
7g
Protein
58g
Total Carbohydrate
35g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 400
- Calories from Fat
- 140
- Total Fat
- 16g
- 24%
- Saturated Fat
- 3g
- 15%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 85mg
- 4%
- Potassium
- 610mg
- 17%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 58g
- 19%
- Dietary Fiber
- 6g
- 25%
- Sugars
- 35g
- Protein
- 7g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 6%
- 6%
- Vitamin C
- 15%
- 15%
- Calcium
- 25%
- 25%
- Iron
- 15%
- 15%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 1 Fruit; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 1/2 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 3 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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