Red Berry Smoothie Bowl with Coconut
A speedy nutritious and delicious breakfast red berry smoothie bowl with coconut. It’s a bit thicker than your average smoothie so you can serve it in a bowl for a slower more satisfying start to the day.
As some of you will know, smoothies are a regular breakfast item in the Tin and Thyme household. They are a tasty way of packing in a lot of healthy nutrients and generally keep us going for hours.
It was not until I had a conversation with some fellow food bloggers yesterday, however, that I heard about the smoothie bowl. As soon as the concept was explained, I realised that smoothies in a bowl were quite a different thing to smoothies in a glass.
Red Berry Smoothie Bowl: The Low Down
We tend to drink our smoothies on the go, whilst we are getting ready for the day or, most often for me, when I am on the computer. I reckoned that eating a smoothie with a spoon from a bowl rather than drinking it from a glass would make it seem as though we’d had a proper breakfast and thus we’d feel more satisfied.
This morning, I struck whilst the iron was hot and made these red berry and coconut kefir smoothies. Having a smoothie bowl encouraged us to sit down together and really appreciate what we were eating. And what we were eating was quite delicious.
Frozen antioxidant rich raspberries, tayberries and redcurrants, dried goji berries and dried barberries were blended in kefir with a banana, of course, but also coconut flakes and coconut oil. I always add whatever medicinal tinctures we happen to have on the go; at the moment it’s ginkgo and homemade hawthorn.
The tartness of the berries iss tempered by some honey and the creaminess of the kefir. For a vegan based bowl, the kefir can easily be replaced by coconut milk and the honey by your sweetener of choice. Are there seconds was CT’s enquiry and luckily there were.
Red Berry Smoothie Bowl: Top Tips
- For a vegan version, replace the kefir with coconut milk and the honey with your sweetener of choice.
- Make a large batch for subsequent hassle free breakfasts. It will keep well in the fridge for a couple of days. Just give it a good stir or shake before using.
- Use a power blender if you can. I use my super duper Optimum 9200A power blender* to whizz everything together. It really does make the smoothest of smoothies.
- Swap the berries for your red berries of choice.
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Red Berry Smoothie Bowl. PIN IT.
Red Berry Coconut Smoothie Bowl
Equipment
- power blender
Ingredients
- 750 ml kefir (or coconut milk)
- 1 banana
- large handful of frozen red berries
- 2 tsp dried barberries
- 2 tsp goji berries
- 1 tbsp coconut flakes
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- 1 tbsp honey (or sweetener of choice)
- required drops for any medicinal tinctures you are taking (optional)
Instructions
- Leaving a few berries and flakes back for decoration, place everything in a blender and blitz until smooth.
- Pour into four bowls and decorate with the reserved berries and coconut flakes.
Notes
Nutrition Estimate
Sharing
I’m submitting this red berry smoothie bowl to #CookBlogShare over at SuperGolden Bakes.
Any breakfast that results in requests for seconds is bound to be a winner.
Smoothie bowls are lovely to look at, but we rarely have them as I’m usually in too much of a hurry. We do have lots of smoothies from a glass though 🙂
Choclette, Love the smoothie! I also strive to eat healthy and this kefir smoothie is on that list!
Thanks Sandhya. Kefir is fantastic stuff and smoothies are a great way to use it.
I love Smoothies. This smoothie looks inviting.
Thank you. We have smoothies for breakfast most mornings now.
When I first looked at this, I thought it was a bowl of strawberry milkshake. Hahaha! But, this is even better. I love the combination of berries and coconut. Yum! Just one question… what are barberries?
Well you could set a trend for sipping milkshake from a bowl Byron – if you really want to 😉 Barberries are a Middle Eastern red berry that is quite sharp, but adds a nice tang to a lot of foods.
What a pretty looking bowl that is. A look at it and you are instantly drawn towards it. Nutrient packed and visually appetizing I surely would love to make this super delicious bowl of goodness my breakfast many times a week.
Thank you Piyali, it’s so easy to do and so delicious too.
Such a healthy recipe … Pics look cool..
Thank you Sundari. I do like a good healthy start to the day – it’s all down hill after that.
Looks utterly delicious and healthy too. Not sure about eating out of a bowl though… Have to try it I guess! Thanks for linking with #CookBlogShare
Eating out of a bowl makes for quite a different experience Lucy, but well worth trying – honestly 😉
Beautiful breakfast bowl and you have inspired me to get back to my smoothies ! Never used tayberries and dried barberries and am very intrigued by your tinctures sounds very intriguing!
Thanks Manjiri, bayberries and barberries are both quite sour, but that is tempered by the kefir and banana, so it makes for a lovely fresh flavour.
I love smoothie bowls. It actually make you feel like you’re eating proper breakfast 🙂 Yours look lovely – bright and summery with my favourite fruits!
Thanks Sylvia, the flavours were lovely and it made a real treat eating it from a bowl.
Smoothie bowls seem to be all the rage now – I have just created some recipes for a cookbook! Yours looks FAB Choclette!
Thank you Karen. Can’t wait to see your book.
What a pretty colour! Looks like a perfect bowl to me!
Funny though….. I made a smoothie pud a few weeks back which is still waiting to be posted…. I agree, sometimes they are much better eaten with a spoon!
Ooh a smoothie pud Kate? That sounds interesting. I look forward to seeing it.
definitely need to give these smoothie bowls a try as it definitely seems like it would feel like a proper breakfast … thanks for sharing.
It definitely does feel like a real breakfast and a bit of a treat too Tracy.
That looks like a perfect breakfast!!
Thank you Angie, it was a lovely breakfast and made a very nice change.
This looks delicious! Love the flecks of coconut and raspberry on top
Thanks Kerry, we both managed to admire our bowls for a bit before we dived in 😉
It looks very pretty – I like the idea of some nice toppings on a bowl of smoothie
Thanks Johanna. It makes a nice start to the day to sit down to a pretty bowl in the morning 🙂
What a clever idea! I’ve never heard of this but it makes such obvious sense. I often feel bloated by smoothies but if it’s eaten this way it’s more like soup! Yours sound gorgeous and looks so pretty!
I had the same ‘what a clever idea’ moment as you Dom and it’s much harder to gulp down served like this.
Oh I would love a breakfast like that. I have started using coconut oil only recently. I like it because it is antiseptic too and good for the bowel. I’d like to wake up in the morning and having such a “happy” colourful breakfast. I need to have a go at this x
Thanks Alida, I like your ‘happy’ breakfast – very apt. There are so many purported benefits to coconut oil, it’s hard to remember them all. It also gives an extra smooth quality to smoothies.
What an interesting idea! I do amoothies quite a bit as part of my diet and can definitely see a benefit in eating them this way. Yours looks gorgeous too.
Thank you Laura. They are not for every day, not with us anyway, but I’ll definitely be making them on days I feel we need a ‘proper’ breakfast.
I need to get into the swing of smmothie bowls and get using kefir too. It looks wonderful.
If you start making your own kefir Helen, there is no getting rid of it.
Sounds like a wonderful breakfast…I guess using yogurt instead of Kefir ( which I still haven’t got round to making!) would work…Where can you find reasonably priced coconut oil?
You could use yoghurt for sure Jenny. Coconut oil is not cheap, but I’ve found a large tub of Biona works out cheaper than any other I’ve come across. As it’s become a lot more popular recently, the price has definitely come down.