When you blend together frozen banana, soymilk, cocoa powder, chia seeds, and peanut butter, what you get is a rich, nutritious, and satisfying smoothie bowl with an impressive 10 grams of protein and 7 grams of fiber.
Try this Peanut Butter and Banana Smoothie Bowl for your family’s next breakfast or snack.
Smoothie bowls come in various colors (purple, green, orange, yellow, chocolate brown) and flavors but their texture is always the same: thicker than a drinkable smoothie but thinner than pudding. They’re meant to be devoured with a spoon, and the topping options are endless — nuts, fruit, seeds, coconut, crushed Graham crackers, whole grain cereal, and more!
I’ve been drooling over smoothie bowls for the past few months—they’re the trendiest eye candy right now on Instagram—and I finally got around to whipping up a few new recipes for the blog … and for my own family. I love this PB smoothie bowl for it’s simplicity, and the topping that makes me smile the most is the O-shaped cereal. Your kids will love the playfulness of this smoothie bowl.
How to Make a Smoothie Bowl:
Equipment – Blender, bowls, spoons
Blender Ingredients – Use less liquid than a traditional smoothie; add thickening ingredients; make sure you have a good protein source and a healthy fat source. (You need fat in your diet to absorb all the great nutrients from fruits and veggies.)
–> Liquid: 100% fruit juice or vegetable juice, milk, soy milk, almond milk, coconut milk.
–> Fruits and/or Vegetables: Frozen banana, strawberries, mango, pineapple, peaches, wild blueberries, raspberries, baby spinach, kale, cucumber, pumpkin puree, roasted beets.
–> Good Fats: Peanut butter, nut butters, avocado, whole milk or 2% fat yogurt, coconut oil.
–> Thickeners: Chia seeds, Greek yogurt, banana
–> Protein: Milk, yogurt, nuts, peanut butter, nut butters, cottage cheese, protein powder.
Topping Ingredients – Whole grain cereal, nuts, chia seeds, hemp seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, shredded coconut, coconut chips, fresh fruit, dried fruit, crumbled graham crackers
Combine blender ingredients until smooth and then decorate with your favorite toppers.
- Serves: 2 to 3
- Serving size: about ¾ cup
- Calories: 270
- Fat: 13g
- Saturated fat: 2.5g
- Carbohydrates: 34g
- Sodium: 130mg
- Fiber: 7g
- Protein: 10g
- 1 cup plain or vanilla soymilk
- 2 frozen bananas
- 3 tablespoons peanut butter
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds
- ¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Optional Toppers: O-shaped whole grain cereal, crushed Graham crackers, chopped peanuts, chia seeds, coconut chips, sliced banana
- Place the soymilk, bananas, peanut butter, cocoa, chia seeds, and vanilla in a blender and blend until smooth.
- Pour into individual bowls and garnish with your choice of optional toppers.
Have you made smoothie bowls yet for your family? What’s your favorite combination of blender ingredients and toppers?
Watch me cook up my chocolate and peanut butter smoothie bowl!
Looks like smoothie bowl perfection! You”re off to a fabulous start in th land of smoothie bowls 🙂 I’m going to have to whip this one up for my kiddos. Oh, and for me too 🙂 Keep ‘me coming!
Thanks EA. Gotta love the peanut butter and all that great protein 🙂
Enjoyed your video. Wants to learn more for healthy living
Been looking for new breakfast or snack recipes using peanut butter for my family and grape juice! Thanks a million!
That’s a superb idea! These look absolutely delicious! Thanks for sharing your recipe.
Hi girls,
Loaded with a variety of delicious toppings, smoothie bowls are smoothies you eat with a spoon!
Best wishes to all.
Masha
You got that right!
THIS IS A GREAT WAY FOR MY GRANDBABY TO GET A NUTRICIOUS DRINK,AND HE LOVES DRINKS LIKE THIS.
This breakfast is very nutritious, and children should like it very much
happy to join your community, there are many useful and interesting information!
Tried this recipe this morning and it was delicious! Even my husband liked it and he normally doesn’t like “healthy food”. For the toppings I cut up half a pear, toasted almond flakes, hemp seeds, and crunchy cereal, and then drizzled it with honey. Really filling but delicious!
I’m so glad you and your husband loved the recipe. And I love your idea to top with pears. That’s the one fruit I love but don’t eat as often as I should. Juicy, high in fiber, versatile! Thanks for stopping by…
I tried this recipe, the outcome was delicious
So glad you loved it!!
Worked perfectly! Smoothie bowls can so easily get too runny but this was the exact right consistency and just sweet enough without dousing it in honey. Also makes enough for 2-I wouldn’t say 3 unless you’re a really light eater which I am not 🙂
Glad you loved it. The “3” is based on having wee ones at home! Thanks for the great feedback.
The summer is approaching, so this is so useful and inspiring! Thanks for another healthy recipe!
This breakfast is exceptionally nutritious, and kids should like it in particular!
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe! It’s seriously delicious!!
So happy to hear you love it!!
Oh, I like how your version looks! These look absolutely delicious! Thanks for sharing your recipe.
This is really delicious recipe, I tried this.
Excellent post, Really helpful!
This is a delicious smoothie bowl and its healthy too.
It looks very-very healthy. I will try to cook it today!
I’d love to know how much sugar and carbs are in this.. as that’s how I am losing all my weight, low sugar and low carb diet
Hi Kirstie: I crunched the numbers, and here you go (the servings can vary from 2 to 3 to 4, so the numbers will differ based on serving size):
I used plain soy milk and unsweetened cocoa powder with no toppings for this analysis.
2 servings: 43 g carbs, 19 g sugar
3 servings: 29 g carbs, 13 g sugar
4 servings: 21 g carbs, 10 g sugar
Really good!
Hi! I am a 20 yeras old girl. I live alone and i always wantet to try make a smoothie bowl whith frozen banana and peanut butter. You always post wonderful recipes. Also you always help me, thanks you. You are kne of a kind. Your recipes always help me.
Happy to hear my recipes are helpful. Enjoy!!
Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe and I will definitely be going to cook it soon
Worked flawlessly! Smoothie bowls can so without problems get too runny however this was the precise right consistency and simply sweet enough with out dousing it in honey. Those look definitely scrumptious! Thank you for sharing your recipe.
Smoothie bowls can so without issues get too runny however this becomes the suitable right consistency and really sweet sufficient without dousing it in honey. I stay by myself and that I always wanted to attempt to make a smoothie bowl with frozen banana and peanut butter.
Glad it worked out for you. I test my recipes a lot and made sure this bowl was thick enough to really call itself a bowl!
This is the most amazing breakfast! My family loves it and it is so easy to make! And what a bonus that it is healthy too! Thank you.
You are most welcome. Happy to hear you love it!
Very Delicious Dishes.. Nice
When making smoothie bowls, you should buy ripe bananas with yellow peels and brown specks. Bananas can be stored in the freezer for at least a month. Adding frozen bananas will not only add flavor, but will also add texture to the smoothie. They can even be frozen up to two months. You can also use any type of nut butter, such as peanut butter, almond butter, or sunflower seed butter.