Try this thick and creamy avocado smoothie recipe for breakfast or a healthy snack!
5 ingredient avocado smoothie
Adding avocado to a smoothie might sound unusual, but the results are surprisingly delicious.
This secretly healthy avocado shake is so unbelievably smooth, it honestly tastes like drinking an actual vanilla milkshake.
I do not know how that is even possible, but it really does remind me of a classic vanilla shake, both in taste and texture.
Make one for yourself, and see if you agree!
With only five ingredients and less than a minute of prep time, the recipe is absolutely worth a try at least once, because it might just become your new go to smoothie recipe.
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Ingredients to make the avocado drink
You will need a ripe avocado, milk of choice, pure vanilla extract, a pinch of salt, and sugar or your favorite granular or liquid sweetener.
Avocado – You can tell if the fruit is ripe by squeezing it very gently at the grocery store. It is ripe if it yields slightly to the pressure and feels just a little bit soft but not mushy.
If you buy an avocado that is still hard as a rock, just wait a few days for it to soften. Or place it unpeeled in a brown paper bag for a day or two with another fruit (such as apple, banana, or kiwi) to speed up the ripening process.
Milk – Use any milk in your refrigerator, including oat milk, soy milk, or skim milk.
For a plant based and vegan avocado smoothie, go with your favorite dairy free milk. I like canned coconut milk, almond milk, pistachio milk, or cashew milk.
Sweetener of choice – This can be classic white sugar, brown sugar, unrefined sugar (like coconut or date sugar), honey or pure maple syrup.
Avocados are naturally low in carbs. If you are looking for an added sugar free and keto avocado smoothie, simply use stevia or your favorite sugar alternative to taste. Be sure to choose a keto friendly milk without sugar as well.
Optional add ins – Turn it into a chocolate avocado smoothie by adding a spoonful of cocoa powder. I recommend Dutch cocoa for a rich brownie flavor. Increase the sugar to taste, to counter the bitterness of the cocoa powder.
Or if you want a healthy avocado protein shake, blend in a scoop of your favorite flavored or unsweetened protein powder. Try vanilla, chai, cookies and cream, or pumpkin pie spice protein powder.
Looking for a caffeine boost or love the coffee vanilla flavor profile? Blend in a fourth teaspoon of instant coffee powder for a refreshing post workout pick-me-up.
Feeling adventurous? Make Chickpea Cookie Dough Dip
Healthy avocado smoothie recipe video
Above, watch the step by step recipe video
Frequently asked questions
Avocado adds unbelievable thickness and creaminess, without any noticeable flavor whatsoever for most people.
If you have super tastebuds, you might be able to tell it is in there. But even then, the flavor is only slight and will not detract from the overall tastiness of the shake.
Frozen or fresh avocado will both work here.
Just be sure to peel the avocados first. If you have a high speed blender like a Vitamix, try freezing your milk of choice in an ice cube tray and using that for the avocado drink instead of refrigerated milk.
This is especially good with canned coconut milk or whole milk, because it tastes like an actual avocado milkshake.
You may add fresh or frozen blueberries, cherries, strawberries, apple, cucumber, banana, or pineapple. Play around with different foods that pair well with avocado.
I love adding a ripe frozen banana, which gives even more thickness to the recipe.
I do not recommend adding ice, because this will dilute the flavor at the ice melts into water.
However, you can blend in a few tablespoons of Greek yogurt or a handful of homemade coconut milk ice cubes for a super thick and ice-cream-like shake if desired.
To make your own coconut ice cubes, just freeze canned coconut milk in an ice cube tray. It is that simple.
Avocado smoothie health benefits
Besides the delicious creamy texture, you can also get so many added health benefits from avocados.
Packed with vitamins. The superfood fruit is cholesterol free and contains nearly 20 vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients, including potassium, folate, and B vitamins.
High fiber, low sugar. Just one serving of avocado provides eight percent of the daily value for fiber, and they have the least amount of sugar of any fruit.
Healthy fat. Over 75% of the fat in avocados is the unsaturated heart-healthy kind (good fats). For the general population, replacing some of the saturated fat in one’s diet with avocado can possibly help to reduce cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure, and inflammation.
Of course if you are on a doctor ordered nutrition or weight loss plan, it is always recommended to consult your doctor.
Customizable to fit different lifestyles. Depending on the specific ingredients you use, this smoothie can be low calorie, low in saturated fat, high protein, nondairy, high in calcium, vegan, and gluten free, with no sugar required.
How to make an avocado shake
- Be sure to start with a ripe avocado.
- Peel the fruit, and discard both the pit and peel. Slice the avocado into large pieces.
- Add the sliced avocado, milk of choice, pure vanilla extract, salt, sweetener, and any optional ingredients to a small blender.
- Blend on high until thick and completely smooth, then serve cold.
This healthy blender drink yields a large, single serving shake or two small servings. Feel free to double the recipe!
More healthy avocado recipes
Avocado Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 small avocado (100g flesh)
- 1 1/2 cups milk of choice (360g)
- 3/4 tsp pure vanilla extract (4g)
- 2 tbsp pure maple syrup or sweetener of choice to taste (30g)
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 scoop protein powder (optional)
Instructions
- 1. Begin with a ripe avocado. Discard the pit and peel, and chop into large pieces.
- 2. Add all ingredients to a small blender, and process until thick and creamy.
- 3. Pour into a tall glass or two smaller glasses, and serve cold.
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What an incredibly peculiar selling point – this avocado shake doesn’t taste like avocado! And if you like this, I also have a pumpkin pie that doesn’t taste like pumpkin, and a banana bread that doesn’t taste like banana! The recipe did look somewhat similar to what I remembered from my hippie chick avocado-shake early 20s, and duly warned that it didn’t have much avocado flavor, I cut the milk to 1 cup, upped the avocado to ~3/4 and, because 2 tbs sugar sounded super sweet, gave it just a quick squirt of honey. Blended with milk powder and ice (cannot find regular milk anywhere these days 🙁 ), I got a creamy treat much like what I remember so fondly. Thanks, Katie, for the apt description and good jumping-off point recipe 🙂
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An awesome recipe that will definitely leave your skin shinning!
Thank you so much for making it 🙂
Thank yoi Katie, I made the brownies and avacado smoothie. They are fabulous. I am on keto and have been looking for new things to try and satisfy my cravings. These two recipes are Great, thanks Velma
The recipe was really good, I absolutely loved the finished product, it was tasting like a vanilla ice cream. I probably can have it everyday. Healthy too. Thank you
good boy likes bananas
Another gem from Katie. I made an avocado, (canned) coconut milk, mango, pineapple, peach smoothie with a touch of pure Monk fruit for sweetener. Smooth, creamy, tropical, delicious! And so easy on the GI tract! What’s not to love?!
Yummy! Try it with 1 c frozen blueberries, 2 T raw cacao, 1 small frozen banana. I don’t mind avocado, but you can’t taste it at all – this is so chocolatey! The banana is all the sweetness I needed – no added sweetener required for me. 🙂
Your version sounds amazing!
5 stars! Doubled the recipe and the other half is in a stainless steel glass for tomorrow. It’s filling.
I added:
1: 1 scoop Sun Warrior & 1 scoop collagen protein powder, both unflavored
2: a lot of small frozen banana chunks, probably about one banana
3: about 2T chopped dates
4: a few T coconut cream
Good way to use those powders and hopefully keep the few pounds I’ve recently been on a mission to gain.
Your version sounds delicious!
Can you add spinach or kale to the Avocado Smoothie?
Love it!
I love an avo smoothie and I stack it with a lot of goodies.
I use protein fortified soy milk and add a tablespoon or two of nutritional yeast and a whole egg. Also a good handful of crunchy kale.
It makes an amazing lunch and I don’t need anything else till dinner.
Highly recommended!!
I make mine with ice cubes condensed milk and avocado of course and some milk. Then blend it up. I add sweet chocolate syrup and I drizzle that all around the sides of the cup and then I poor my avocado shake in put the lid on and add a shake straw and sip away and enjoy! 😉
Would give 10 stars if could. Absolutely delicious and super creamy. Are used agave syrup instead of maple syrup and wow.
This made us so happy 🙂
This was so delicious I never would have believed there was avocado in the smoothie if I hadn’t been the one to make it!
This avocado smoothie was surprising! I could swear there is no avocado except the color gives it away. Great recipe!