This thick, creamy peanut butter banana smoothie recipe tastes like drinking a peanut butter milkshake. Yet it’s good for you at the same time!
Table of Contents
- The best peanut butter banana smoothie
- A quick and easy breakfast recipe
- Peanut butter banana smoothie recipe video
- Healthy peanut butter banana smoothie ingredients
- Vegan peanut butter banana smoothie
- How to freeze bananas
- How to make a peanut butter smoothie recipe
- Peanut butter shake health benefits
- Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie Recipe
The best peanut butter banana smoothie
With just three ingredients and endless customization options, this may also be the easiest peanut butter smoothie recipe you ever find.
It’s the perfect choice whenever you need a filling healthy breakfast or snack on the go.
And just one serving packs in more than ten grams of protein, even if you don’t add any protein powder whatsoever!
Also try this Homemade Nutella
A quick and easy breakfast recipe
While many people love the convenience of overnight oatmeal, toast with jam, or a bowl of cold cereal for breakfast, I always seem to be hungry again less than an hour after eating a high carb breakfast without much protein.
Unlike many other quick breakfast options, this easy peanut butter banana smoothie recipe includes a balance of protein, carbs, and healthy fats to help with fullness.
Especially on rushed Monday mornings, it can be incredibly helpful to have the high protein breakfast shake in your time saving recipe repertoire.
Serve it with a slice of Healthy Banana Bread
Peanut butter banana smoothie recipe video
Healthy peanut butter banana smoothie ingredients
To make the three ingredient smoothie, you will need crunchy or creamy peanut butter, two ripe bananas, milk of choice, an optional pinch of salt and sweetener, and optional flavored or unflavored protein powder.
Or turn it into a peanut butter banana smoothie with oats by including the third cup of quick or rolled oats. This gives you an even thicker texture, almost like a peanut butter banana milkshake instead of a smoothie. It also increases the fiber and protein, helping to fuel you through breakfast and keep you full until lunch time.
Feel free to substitute almond butter, cashew butter, pecan butter, even or sunflower butter if you have allergies or simply want to switch up the flavor.
You can use whatever sweetened or unsweetened milk you have on hand. Plant based milks work too.
And of course you absolutely can add a tablespoon or two of cocoa powder if you want a chocolate peanut butter banana smoothie.
Use leftover bananas to make homemade Banana Muffins or Banana Ice Cream.
Prefer a peanut butter smoothie without banana? Frozen mango or frozen coconut meat both work well as substitutions here.
This has been my breakfast every day this week! I am obsessed with this smoothie!
-FLOWER
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Vegan peanut butter banana smoothie
To make a dairy free and plant based shake, simply use your favorite type of nondairy milk and optional plant based protein powder in the recipe.
Almond milk, soy milk, oat milk, rice milk, and cashew milk are all good options.
Or for an incredibly thick and creamy smoothie that tastes like a milkshake, try coconut milk. You can use the remaining coconut milk to make Vegan Chocolate Mousse.
How to freeze bananas
Make sure that your bananas are overripe before peeling them. Ripe banana peels will appear at least partially spotted brown.
Fully brown bananas work even better for smoothies, because they are much sweeter than yellow unripe bananas.
Peel the ripened bananas, and break them in half or chop into pieces. Place the banana chunks in a large Ziploc bag or a freezer safe container, and freeze until ready to use.
This step can be done weeks or even a few months ahead of time, so you can always have frozen bananas on hand to use immediately whenever a smoothie craving hits.
How to make a peanut butter smoothie recipe
Step one: If using oatmeal, blend the oats until they turn into a fine powder.
Step two: Add the frozen banana, peanut butter, milk, salt, sweetener, and optional cocoa powder and protein powder. Blend until thick and smooth.
Step three: Pour into tall drinking glasses, or make it a peanut butter banana smoothie in a bowl.
Drink your peanut butter banana shake right away, perhaps topped with chocolate syrup, chopped peanuts or strawberries, and Coconut Whipped Cream.
Or store leftovers in a covered container in the refrigerator if you want to make the smoothie the night before and have it as an instant breakfast the next morning.
This easy recipe works in regular blenders or a high speed blender like a Vitamix, Ninja, or NutriBullet. If you want a single serving smoothie, simply halve all ingredients and whip everything up in a portable personal blender.
While the blender is out, make a Strawberry Smoothie or Avocado Smoothie.
Peanut butter shake health benefits
Keeps you full. In just five minutes or less, you get a balanced and filling healthy breakfast, with two servings of fruit, fiber, potassium, and calcium.
High protein. The healthy smoothie also packs in over ten grams of protein, even without yogurt or protein powder.
If you wish to increase the protein even more, add a scoop of your favorite flavor protein powder, or replace half a cup of the milk with plain or Greek yogurt.
Extra sleep. This healthy snack peanut butter banana shake is also easy to take on the go, which means you get to set your alarm clock that much later in the morning.
Dairy free and vegan. The recipe can be suitable for numerous special diets, including vegan, gluten free, soy free, refined sugar free, paleo, high fiber, low cholesterol, high protein, and low calorie.
Weight loss smoothie. To lower the calories, use your favorite sugar free sweetener and unsweetened almond milk or cashew milk. These milks usually have just twenty five to thirty calories per cup. You can also replace the peanut butter with powdered peanut butter, such as PB2.
Weight gain smoothie. If you are eating a high calorie diet in order to gain muscle or bulk up in general, use full fat canned coconut milk and six tablespoons of peanut butter for a healthy weight gain snack with more calories.
Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie
Ingredients
- 2 frozen bananas
- 6 tbsp peanut butter or powdered peanut butter
- 2 cups milk of choice
- 1/3 cup quick oats (optional)
- 1 tbsp sweetener of choice, if needed
- 1 scoop protein powder (optional)
- I also like to add a scant 1/8 tsp salt
Instructions
- *If you want an even thicker shake, feel free to add an extra banana. The bananas should be at least partially brown before peeling and freezing.To make the peanut butter banana smoothie recipe, blend the oats until a fine powder forms, then add all remaining ingredients and blend until smooth. Drink immediately, or store in a covered container in the refrigerator if you’d prefer to make the smoothie the night before.View Nutrition Facts
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More Peanut Butter Recipes
3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls
Or These Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies
Hey Katie!
This is kinda random but I just wanted to say that I really love your blog. You’re such a positive influence and your personality really shines through. You’ve helped me when I wasn’t sure what it meant to be healthy. Also, you can take some of the simplest ingredients and turn them into something healthy and (more importantly) delicious! I eagerly check your blog everyday in hopes there will be a new recipe, and when there is I am always SOOO excited to try it out!
All that randomness aside… I used to eat cereal sometimes but I don’t anymore cause I realized that most commercial brands are pretty processed. I totally agree with you about the convenience part though. It would be pretty awesome if someone could make a cereal that turned into pancakes the second it touched milk, but for now I will just have to either take an extra 15 minutes to cook OR just make something super-simple-yet-delicious like this smoothie!
-Emily
Agreed!
I’m the complete opposite! Cereal is usually okay for me, but I’m so hungry after smoothies
me too! I think for me it has to do with chewing food – I need to chew to feel like I ate something…
I love cold cereal for breakfast. I keep boxes above my desk at work and have it as I read my morning emails. One of my favourite parts of the day. I don’t think I could ever give it up!
Same here! I have to make a double serving of smoothie (at least) in order to feel satisfied, and then I usually end up needing a second breakfast, hobbit-style. They’re more of an after-work snack for me.
I love the PB2 you added to this smoothie. Thank you for the post. I need other alternatives for breakfast because unfortunately I am allergic to eggs. This will be great.
Love your blog! This looks like a good alternative to cereal, I can’t wait to try it. Lately I’ve found a good alternative to cold cereal that’s fast and easy. I cook up a large batch of quinoa and refrigerate what I don’t use immediately. Then in the morning I’ll scoop some out in a bowl, cover with unsweetened soymilk, add a few drops of stevia and vanilla extract. It tastes good, is fast, filling and nutritious.
This looks delicious, and so filling, I bet it went down a treat 🙂
Sometimes I eat cold cereal yeh, but I tend to just opt for oat porridge. Saying that, this morning I had a cold-served overnight banana oat jar topped with some granola, and it was great!
I hope you’ve had a great start to your week Katie, thanks for this recipe 😀 x
I can never usually get on with smoothies – I think that it is the thick texture I am not keen on, but I think that I will give this one a try as I love peanut butter and bananas – could a fresh banana be used?
I think that if you use a fresh banana the smoothie won’t be as thick, but since you said you don’t like the thick texture, maybe that would be a good thing.
Hi, I made it with fresh aka non frozen bananas and it worked. One will have to add ice to it because the bananas are at room temperature. I like my smoothies thick.
All around freaking delicious.
Thank you.
You can use a fresh banana, but the smoothie won’t be cold. I I just made this smoothie this morning and it came out pretty thin, just use a smaller banana or more milk to thin it out! 🙂
It have smoothies be cold add ice cubes.
Katie, ever since seeing your creations, I have always been making breakfast the night before. I’ve done blended cereal, oatmeal (porridge or baked), oat bran (porridge or baked), interestingly, I don’t seem to find any recipes with baking oat bran. Also, I’ve gotten into bulgur. I never care to have cold cereal anymore.
I cannot wait for your book to come out in the fall!
I’m not a big fan of cold cereal for breakfast. It’s just not satisfying to me!
Yes! One of my favorite PB2 recipes! You can also add 1-2 Tbsp of Silk Road cocoa powder and 1/2 cup frozen peas (you can’t taste the peas). Yum! I love your ideas.
Thank you for the peas suggestion, I’m going to give it a try!
Just seen your post about peas, what a brilliant idea, I normally add spinach but hey new combo, thank you
Just SAW is correct!
I did 1tablespoon cocoa powder, coffee for the liquid and okra not peas okra is great in smoothies just over blend. The coffee is great as I was looking for a peanut butter mocha 😁
That sounds so good!
I make this in the afternoon when my the munchies hit. I haven’t added oats, but I do throw in a couple of handfuls of spinach. the PB and banana cover up the flavor and my kids love the green. I will try adding oats today.
Like Allison, I’m fine with either cold or hot cereal, but smoothies only hold for about one hour or so. I love banana milk with pb, will give the addition of oats a try. Maybe it will fill me up for more than one hour!
I agree 100% on cold cereal–I feel like I could eat 5 bowls and still feel hungry an hour afterwards! I love banana and PB for breakfast, though–usually as part of a yogurt bowl or on an English muffin, but this smoothie sounds like a great idea too!
I think it depends on the cereal. I usually have a bowl of bran flakes with a banana, and it keeps me full until lunch! Grape-Nuts are also a good choice to last me until lunch. But I would only eat Cheerios for breakfast as a last resort because when I eat Cheerios, I get hungry again much sooner than that.
Yes, I eat cereal for breakfast, usually about 1-2x per week. My solution to the problem of getting hungry is to add a scoop of protein powder (and a tablespoon of flaxseed), plus have a stick of string cheese – unless I use non-fat milk, in which case the calories prohibit cheese. We also are in the habit of having a morning snack, because of the eating plan we are on, which specifies that to keep our metabolism up, we should eat every 2-3 hours. I know we were probably all raised to believe that one should just eat 3 meals a day, with maybe an afternoon snack, but current nutritional wisdom says that is no longer the best way to go. I’m looking forward to trying this smoothie recipe – smoothies are always a good breakfast.
I make something similar to this for the boyfriend – he is wary of the green “healthy” smoothies, so if it’s loaded with PB and banana … he’ll eat it! I like to throw frozen strawberries into mine just to add a bit more sweetness.
Hi Katie,
I’m writing a book and will be referencing your website in the resources section. I would like to print at least one and possibly more of your recipes in the text of the book. The recipe would of course be accompanied by a notation saying that it is your recipe and repeating your URL. Is this alright with you? Could I say “reprinted with permission?”
Please let me know.
Thanks kindly,
Marci
I made with unsweetened vanilla almond milk, frozen banana, PB2, And just a touch of honey… is was absolutely delicious! So simple, so satisfying!