Antioxidant Packed Blueberry Matcha Smoothie
This blueberry matcha smoothie is full of antioxidants and a perfect energy boost for the morning. It’s a delicious healthy vegan, dairy free and gluten free green smoothie with blueberry mash. So good!
I’m getting so excited about spring and can’t wait for everything to go green. We’re already able to waste our time outside in nothing else but a sweater. Remember my love of balcony life. Well, here it is! I can almost smell spring 😀 Winter this year sucked, almost no snow… I mean it was cold, which is okay by me, but no snow. Come on, that’s just unfair!
Yeah, yeah, I’ll stop complaining 😉
This spring will bring a new little cuddling creature to our life, so there’s really nothing to complain about. Only one more month to go, but I’m hoping sooner 🙂 Can’t wait to meet you little baby! These past 8 months went by really fast, I got very attached to my big belly and the very intesnse baby kicks. I’m begining to think this baby will be a kickboxer or something. I remember reading about having to count kicks if the baby is not moving enough and then I think is there also something like kicking too much?! Probably not 🙂
Back to the recipe!
With the spring knocking on the door, the season of some new green leaf veggies is starting and I’m able to add them to my green smoothies. I got hold of some really nice fresh spinach last week and I couldn’t resist to make a delicious smoothie for breakfast. There are still some frozen wild blueberries in the freezer, which I love for breakfast. In the winter I heat them up and pour over the pancakes with some yogurt. Yum!
Ok, ok, back to the smoothie. So I named this drink matcha smoothie, because I added a little for some nice morning tea feeling. Mmm, cozy 🙂 I don’t know why exactly, but for me drinking matcha – in any form – is like a warm hug. Even if I drink it cold.
I couldn’t resist but adding some lime juice to this almost-spring-celebrating smoothie. Delicious! 🙂 It’s sweetened with honey, which you probably already know is my favorite sweetener 🙂
Now I’m anxiously waiting for strawberries, especially wild strawberries to make strawberry layer cakes and elderflower to make some cookies. With a little bit of luck, the baby and I will be well enough by the time those two are in season and we’ll be strolling through forests searching for these beauties 🙂
And now here’s the recipe, finally. This matcha smoothie is packed with antioxidants and contains a bunch of cashews and an avocado so it will leave you fed for a while. Cheers!
Antioxidant Packed Blueberry Matcha Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 cup cashews soaked overnight
- 2 cups water
- 1/2 avocado
- 50 g spinach (or a big handful)
- 4 tsp matcha powder
- juice of 1 1/2 limes
- 2 TBSP sunflower seeds
- 3 TBSP honey (or other sweetener for vegan version)
- 1 cup blueberries
Instructions
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Mix everything except blueberries in a blender until smooth. If the smoothie is to thick add more water.
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Place blueberries in two glasses and mash them gently with a spoon or a mortar.
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Pour the green smoothie over mashed blueberries and enjoy!
This recipe sounds delicious and your photos are absolutely splendid!!
Oh, Nita, thank you so much! 😀
This looks really tasty! Are there any substitute nuts to use in place of the cashews that you could recommend? We are not partial to cashews in this household Perhaps almonds?
Thank you so much! Sure, almonds would work perfectly or brazil nuts. Any sweet nuts for that matter 🙂
All these pictures came out absolutely gorgeous! I love putting avocado in smoothies. They make them super velvety and smooth. But the first time I tried it I didn’t think I was going to like it. Muddling the blueberries is such a good idea and makes this drink even prettier!
Thank you! 😀 Yes, avocado does make smoothie smooth without actually adding too much flavor, so you build flavors with other yummy stuff.
Hi Anja, I love your blog. I can’t wait to make this. My father is from Ljubljana Slovenia. I love Slovenia such a beautiful country.i still have family there. Sending hello from the US.
Margy
Thank you dear, it means a lot 🙂 It’s always exciting to hear from people who have roots in Slovenia 😀
These look absolutely gorgeous and delicious! Think we could add vodka to them? LOL
Thank you!! 😀 I think it should taste delicious with a little ice and a splash of vodka 😀
Oh it’s so pretty! I need to make this 🙂
Thank you so much Emily!! 😀
Love all the flavors…GREEN GOODNESS!!!
Oh, thank you!!! 😀