Chocolate Avocado Smoothie: Raw and Dairy Free
A vegan friendly breakfast smoothie which is not only deliciously thick and chocolatey, but is packed full of nutrients. This raw chocolate avocado smoothie is both nourishing for the body and for the soul too.
Avocados
I have to come clean here: making avocados into a smoothie seems a bit of a waste of a good avocado to me. I love the texture and flavour of this princely fruit but actually like them best just as they are, on toast or with slices tossed into a salad or mashed up in guacamole or this avocado and egg dip.
But when an octet of Peruvian avocados winged their way to me it seemed like an ideal time to experiment.
Chocolate Avocado Smoothie
Intuitively a dairy-free option seemed like the way to go. Ideally I would have used coconut water as the liquid, but I didn’t have any to hand. I had a look at coconut and almond milk options in the shops, but they were all full of sugar, vegetable fats and other additives.
If only I’d read Janie’s post on making your own almond milk before going ahead, but I didn’t. In the end I resorted to a tin of coconut milk. To keep things as Peruvian as possible I used maca and raw cacao powder both grown in Peru. The maple syrup, oats and banana may have come from a different continent, but honour, I felt, had been served.
Talking of serving, how did the smoothies turn out? Really rather well. Thick and creamy, rich and chocolatey, healthy too. We had them for breakfast and they kept us going for several hours. Result.
Plant Milk Update 2020
Thankfully it’s so much easier to buy good quality plant milks these days. So I no longer resort to tins of coconut milk to make this chocolate avocado smoothie. The result isn’t quite as rich and creamy, but it’s not quite as calorific either. And if you want to make your own plant milk, here’s my recipe for hemp milk.
The recipe below calls for plant milk rather than a tin of coconut milk.
Chocolate Avocado Smoothie Top Tips
- Make sure your avocado is soft and ripe. Although you could use an unripe avocado it won’t have quite the same creamy texture nor will it be as flavoursome.
- Smoothies are a good way to use up over ripe bananas. But do make sure you have a nice ripe banana as this is where the main sweetness comes from. If you don’t have a large banana, use two small ones instead.
- Maca powder is not only a superfood, but it gives delicious caramel notes to the finished smoothie. But don’t worry if you can’t get hold of any. You can just leave it out, or substitute with another superfood such as baobab. Then again, a little cinnamon is good too.
- I don’t like my smoothies to be particularly sweet, so you may want to add more maple syrup to the recipe than the amount stated. If you’re not vegan, honey is a good substitute.
- See my plant milk update above.
- For the best results, use a power blender. I use a Froothie Evovle. It locks in the nutrients and makes for the smoothest smoothie you ever did have. See my Froothie Evolve review for more information.
Other Dairy-Free Smoothies You Might Like
- Double pear smoothie bowl
- Ginger green goddess smoothie
- Raspberry cashew smoothie
- Raw chocolate smoothie
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Raw Chocolate Avocado Smoothie – The Recipe
Raw Chocolate Avocado Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 large ripe avocado (I used a Peruvian Hass)
- 1 large banana peeled
- 2 tbsp rolled oats (porridge oats)
- 1 tsp maca powder (optional)
- 1 tbsp raw cacao powder (I used Peruvian)
- 200 ml tinned coconut milk or 500ml coconut water or 250ml plant-based milk of your choice
- 2 tsp maple syrup (or to taste)
- water
Instructions
- Cut the avocado in half, remove the stone and scoop out the flesh with a spoon. Place in a blender together with the banana.1 large ripe avocado, 1 large banana
- Add the oats, maca, cacao, maple syrup and coconut milk.2 tbsp rolled oats (porridge oats), 1 tsp maca powder, 1 tbsp raw cacao powder, 200 ml tinned coconut milk, 2 tsp maple syrup
- Add enough water to make the volume up to 1 litre and whizz for a minute or two until smooth.water
- Pour into glasses and drink with gusto.
Notes
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Sharing
I’m sharing this recipe for raw chocolate avocado smoothie with The Peachicks Bakery for #CookBlogShare.
Looks amazing! I love it when a recipe is delicious AND healthy 😀 Eb x
Hahaha, yes me too. It’s certainly my aim with the recipes here on Tin and Thyme.
OMG this sounds amazing! But yes possibly a slight waste of an expensive ingredient – although you can buy them frozen just for smoothies now i’ve seen in a few places! Thanks for sharing #CookBlogShare
Oh really? That’s interesting. Would have thought they’d go all black if frozen. Will keep an eye out.
An absolutely delightful combination of ingredients, I can imagine how good it tastes.
Thanks Janice. We’ve been making it quite a lot recently. It feels like lots of healthy food is needed at the moment.
This sounds fantastic with fresh coconut milk.
Fresh coconut milk would have been wonderful YC.
I would never have thought of putting an avocado into my smoothie – not until now that is!
Haha, I like to be a little ahead of the game Heidi! Let me know if you try it and what you think of it.
I have heard of this so many times but have never tried it yet, but as yours looks so fab, I must try it soon! Karen
Karen, I’d eat avocados every day if I could – love them.
Looks delicious and very healthy. I still need to try the avocado chocolate combo
Katie, it’s a fun combination to play around with. If I had a ready supply of avocados, I reckon I’d have them in all of my smoothies.
This sounds delicious, love that you added oats too.
I generally add oats to smoothies Cheri, for a bit of added fibre and to thicken.
Oh my this sounds delicious – I can never say no to anything chocolate so I must give it a try. x
Oh you must, Sarah-Louise BECAUSE this is positively good for you as well as tasty 🙂
This sounds good! A wonderful combination of flavours and I bet the avocado makes it really creamy. GG
It does indeed GG – a most delicious and healthful smoothie.
I love smoothies and this looks really scrumptious, thank you I really must try x
Thanks Cathy – it’s a good one.
I don’t think I have stumbled across maca before, you do learn something new every day!
I never really got into the whole smoothie thing but seeing lots of non dairy options is inspiring and I think I could manage it. I love avocado’s anyway and my Filipino neighbour has them as a sweet too, might have to dust off the blender and try your smoothie out!
Smoothies are a great way of packing in lots of nutrients in a really delicious way Anne. There are plenty of dairy alternatives around now – my preferred one is coconut water, but it’s hard to get hold of.
I had an avocado smoothie yesterday. It was lime and coconut and avocado and it was stunning. So creamy. Your chocolate one looks amazing. I want.
That sounds like a wonderful combination Dom – I used coconut, but really wanted coconut water.