Pineapple-Basil Smoothie
- Total Time
- 2 minutes
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Ingredients
Yield:1 generous serving
- ¼cup, tightly packed, basil leaves
- ¼ripe pineapple, peeled, cored and cut into chunks (about 6 ounces)
- ¾cup plain kefir or yogurt
- 1teaspoon honey
- 1heaped tablespoon pistachios
- ½teaspoon chia seeds
- 2 or 3ice cubes
Preparation
- Step 1
Place all of the ingredients in a blender and blend at high speed for 1 minute, or until smooth. Serve.
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blisssu
Second try: 5 stars instead of 2! This smoothie offers an aromatic blend of pineapple and basil flavors. This time, I used a ripe, fresh pineapple, no banana, and followed instructions except for honey, for which I substituted 3 chopped medjool dates--2 would have sufficed. I used commercial soy yogurt mixed with home-made almond milk to cut the yogurt taste. I don't like the only soy yogurt available here, and my almond milk lessens its impact.
Chloe
Doubled the recipe used frozen pineapple, and coconut kefir and it was delicious. The plant based kefir lent a creaminess without being overpowering.
Stephanie
Followed directions and ratios exactly and it is so awesome. . a new one for the quiver for us!
blisssu
I adapted this recipe to save some strawberry juice from a freezer-door-left-open disaster. The delicious result strays from the original, but basil remains as its distinctive flavor. I combined the strawberry juice half-and-half with almond milk instead of yogurt, then substituted strawberries for pineapple--a nice combo with the basil and pistachios. I liked the sweetness level of 2 medjool dates instead of 1 tsp honey or agave nectar, and I added juice from half a lime.
katethomas56
I love the name- it caught my eye immediately! Simple like the recipe:)
Ellie J
Skipped the added honey. Used raw walnuts and cashews as that was what we had on hand. Subbed vegan yogurt and the basil was from a tube. Still delicious!
Jennifer P.
Used frozen pineapple, plain Greek yogurt and almond milk, keeping all else the same. No need for ice. Delicious!
Happy eater
We paired this with Korean tacos with kimchi and it was perffect.
Babyfork
I made this almost exactly as written with kefir. My only adjustment was to increase the chia to a full teaspoon. I'm not a "smoothie person" but looking for ways to add more healthy foods to my diet. 5 stars for the ingredient list because I hate bananas and they seem to be in almost every smoothie recipe. I like the less typical ingredients in this smoothie. I make basil cocktails, so the basil didn't seem odd to me in a sweet drink. 4 stars for taste because I don't 100% love kefir.
Jasmine
Delicious!!! I used “lettuce leaf basil” from our garden which is a little more mild than Genovese so I used about 1/3 cup packed. I didn’t have pistachios, unfortunately, but I’ll surely get some since I have plenty of the ingredients left for a couple more smoothies. I used plain, full fat yogurt. I’m not really a smoothie person, but I’m trying to eat more nutritiously and I loved this.
Angela
Excellent. I made ours with rice milk instead of yogurt, and it was super delicious! Definitely a nice and healthy switch from our usual healthy banana, berry smoothie with soy milk and matcha, which we love too. Definitely, we will keep this on our smoothie menu!
ouiouicroissant
In case it’s of interest, the total number of calories for this is roughly 230 with whole milk yogurt. I used a 1/2 cup only, and just 4oz pineapple, so 200 calories.
Anthony
Made this as directed too tangy for me the yogurt overpowers everything else
Joe
This was delicious with frozen pineapple (no ice cubes). Might add some lime juice and/or coconut next time. Lovely way to use up some late-season basil.
Wendy
Stunning flavor and a great way to use flourishing basil. I added some coconut milk and juice of half a lime to help thin my batch. I used frozen pineapple and it was super think and so refreshing on a hot summer morning. A keeper!
Mai
Strawberry basil
Kel
This is surprisingly excellent. I’m a picky eater and don’t like most dairy products so the kefir was really throwing me off but I finally got over it and made this smoothie. It is so good. Granted I only used ¼ cup of kefir and subbed plain, unsweetened almond milk for the rest the rad
katethomas56
This is surprising! Great herbal notes cut pineapple sweetness. No pistachios so added a bit more chia seeds. Ready in under a minute and very satisfying.
Diana
In the current heat wave, this smoothie is magic! Made as directed, except for the chia seeds - added extra pistachio -and it was awesome!
Stephanie
Followed directions and ratios exactly and it is so awesome. . a new one for the quiver for us!
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