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Creamy and delicious Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie is made with 4 simple ingredients for a cold, refreshing, filling breakfast or snack! It has the perfect amount of natural sweetness from the banana and tastes just like ice cream. Enjoy as is or add your fav mix-ins!
I love this Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie! It combines two of the best flavors ever into a delicious treat! Peanut butter and bananas were made to go together. The creamy sweetness of the frozen banana pairs so well with the rich, salty peanut butter. It’s just what you need to jump-start your day!
Considering I have a ridiculous amount of smoothie recipes on my blog at this point, it’s a little crazy that I don’t already have a peanut butter banana smoothie recipe. I make a version of this smoothie ALL of the time, so I figured that I would document my go-to recipe for you.
Why you’ll love this recipe
- Quick and easy to make: You’ll be sipping on this in minutes! Simply blend the 4 ingredients (bananas, milk, yogurt and peanut butter). Great for crazy mornings when you are running out the door or for a quick snack!
- Nutrient-rich: This recipe is made with simple ingredients that provide you with a variety of nutrients. Each serving offers almost 10 grams of protein and healthy fats to keep you full for hours.
- Tastes like dessert for breakfast: Even though this is good-for-you recipe, it tastes just like creamy ice cream. Ice cream for breakfast on the reg is the kind of life that I want to live!
Ingredients needed
The ingredients needed for this peanut butter banana smoothie are super simple! Keep frozen bananas on hand, so you can mix this up super quick before heading out the door.
- Banana: I always keep frozen bananas in my freezer for just this occasion. AND frozen is definitely best in this recipe, as it results in a much creamier smoothie!
- Milk: I’ve been on a big oat milk kick lately but really any kind works here. Although, it won’t be quite as rich, you could also swap the milk for water, if desired.
- Yogurt: I like to use a plain, unflavored and unsweetened dairy-free yogurt (Forager Project is my favorite for smoothies) but again, really anything works well here.
- Peanut butter: MOST often, I use a simple runny peanut butter when making this banana smoothie. However, you could also leave out the natural peanut butter and instead use peanut butter powder. It’ll still have the delicious peanut butter taste but with less fat and calories, if that’s something you’re worried about).
You could also sub the peanut butter for almond butter or another seed, cashew butter, or nut butter that you like!
Variations and substitutions
As with most of my smoothies, I tried to make this one flexible. This recipe is very easy to customize – the kinds of yogurt and the milk that you use are completely up to you. Whatever works best for your diet.
Here are some good ideas for substitutions and add-ins:
- Yogurt options: To give this smoothie extra protein, mix in plain Greek yogurt. You can also use flavored yogurts, if you’d like. Vanilla or a banana flavored yogurt would be delicious!
- Milk options: For extra protein, use cow’s milk. To keep this smoothie dairy free, use almond milk, oat milk or cashew milk.
- Make it sweeter: Add a small amount of honey, maple syrup, stevia or agave if you’d like this smoothie to taste sweeter. Another option is to blend in a pitted date.
- For more nutrients: Feel free to blend in some chia seeds, hemp seeds or ground flax seeds for extra nutrients and fiber. Spinach or kale are also GREAT options for adding greens- I usually put in a large handful of raw spinach to mine.
- For more protein: You can also add in protein powder for more protein. Silken tofu is also a GREAT way to get extra protein in your smoothies!
- Add frozen cauliflower: If you’ve never tried adding frozen cauliflower to your smoothie, it’s a fabulous way to squeeze in some extra nutrients without even knowing it’s there. It works particularly great when making this smoothie for small children (who will TOTALLY know if you try and put kale in there….don’t even try that, mmkay!).
- Make it chocolatey: you could add in a couple teaspoons of cocoa powder to give it a chocolate flavor!
How to make this smoothie
As far as smoothie making goes, this peanut butter banana smoothie is pretty par for the course. Add all of the ingredients into a blender and blend until creamy and smooth! Sometimes I need to add a little extra milk or water to get the blender going and make the smoothie a bit thinner.
Simple. Delicious!
I could have this for breakfast every single day.
Helpful tips
Super creamy and tastes just like a milkshake, this is sure to become a staple in your breakfast rotation, or snack rotation! Here are some tips, so it’s perfect every time you make it!
- Best way to prep bananas: Overripe bananas will be best because they’re sweeter! Peel the bananas and cut them in half or several chunks, and place them in a freezer bag. Release as much air as possible out of the bag. They will keep for at least 3 months, probably a bit longer. Then just use the frozen sliced banana straight from the freezer as needed!
- Using an unfrozen banana: Even though a frozen banana is best, if you don’t have one, just throw a few ice cubes in to give it a cold and creamy texture.
- Use a high-powered blender: You can really use any blender that you have, but to blend the frozen banana, so it’s super creamy and smooth, it’s best to use a high-powered blender like a Blendtec, Vitamix, or Ninja to fully break down all of the ingredients.
- Adjust the consistency: Use more or less milk to make this thinner or thicker.
Frequently asked questions
Whether or not something is healthy is subjective, but the banana adds complex carbohydrates to give you energy, there’s added protein from greek yogurt and the healthy fats in the peanut butter will keep you full. Adding peanut butter to your banana smoothie is a great way to quickly make a satisfying and delicious shake.
Using frozen fruit in your smoothies is not completely necessary but it is recommend for the best cold, creamy, thick texture. If you’re in a pinch and you must use a fresh banana, you might want to add a handful of ice to make the smoothie colder.
You can add both milk and yogurt to your smoothies, like in this recipe! Adding milk and yogurt to your smoothie will add more protein and creaminess to your drink. However, if you don’t want to add yogurt, it can be omitted in this recipe.
More smoothie recipes you might like:
Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 frozen banana*
- ½ cup of milk, any kind you desire
- ½ cup of yogurt, you could leave this out if desired or swap it for an equal amount of frozen cauliflower
- 3 tablespoons of peanut butter, can also swap out for 2 tablespoons of peanut butter powder
Instructions
- Combine all of the ingredients in a blender and blend until smoothie. If needed, add a little more liquid (even just water works okay) to get the blender going a bit more.1 frozen banana*, ½ cup of milk, ½ cup of yogurt, 3 tablespoons of peanut butter
- ENJOY!
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
So easy and delicious!! Love it with a dash of cinnamon as well!
WOW! just made this recipe and asked hubby if he wanted dessert before dinner tonight – of course there was NO delay in answering. This p’nut butter banana smoothie was fantastic! I am imagining other things to add some day – like blueberries, strawberries – or maybe a little coconut and I will totally try the cauliflower. Tonight I didn’t have the Greek yogurt (vanilla) so I used an Activia strawberry yogurt. Very good. THANKS!
I love banana and peanut butter together. I have a lot of digestive issues, and I heard about green banana flour that I’m going to try. I can’t have dairy, so I’m going to use avocado instead of yogurt, which will give me the creaminess. Thank you for this great recipe. Toodles.
So good and so easy! I made mine with Oatmilk and it really hit the spot. Also super easy to add in other things if you want. I had some frozen blueberries I threw in with mine.
aww yay! SO glad that you liked it and thanks for coming back to let me know, Bailey :D
New to making smoothies; can you tell us if you used riced, mashed or regular frozen cauliflower? I don’t want my son complaining if he tastes it or is put off by the texture. Thanks for posting this!
I almost always use a bag of frozen spinach florets and they blend up so that you would never know they were in there!
OOPS- meant to say CAULIFLOWER florets :D
How many calories?
I updated the recipe card to include that information!
I used frozen banana and Greek plain yogurt…yummy!
This was an amazing tasty smoothie! Wow I seriously couldn’t stop drinking it. I used the yogurt and it gave it that tang and took it over the top. Thank you for sharing!
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Quick, easy, and yummy; thanks for the recipe!