A bright and beautiful morning to you all. Welcome to Steve's kitchen, it's a
smoothie Tuesday but it's never a good morning till I've had my coffee so today
we're going to make a java smoothie. This one is so so delicious, let me go through
the ingredients with you. Now you're going to want some frozen coffee, I've
poured really strong coffee into these ice cube trays and they've set. I've
actually used Pikes Place Starbucks, this is not sponsored, I'm just telling you
what I use for this video. We've got some bananas, we're going to flavor it with a
little bit of cardamom, I've got quarter of a cup of flat oats which is just
perfect to thicken and give us some nourishment, nice slow-release
carbohydrates. We're going to be using almond unsweetened almond milk, I'm going
to add some vanilla protein powder and because I like the texture we're going
to be adding some chia seed in there as well. So I'll start by getting the ice
cubes out, we don't want all these ice cubes I want about a cup which is about
half the tray but I'll pop our iced coffee into there. Now though I've got
fresh bananas I'm actually going to use a medium size frozen banana, I cut my
bananas up into threes and pop them into a little ziploc bag then I can just grab
three pieces of banana and add them into the blender. Frozen banana will make a
thicker smoothie, I'm adding in two tablespoons of vanilla protein powder.
Now just a little pinch, about an eighth of a teaspoon of cardamom powder this
gives a lovely flavor with coffee, a quarter of a cup of oatmeal, this is my
breakfast after all. Now this is optional but I really like it a tablespoon of
chia seeds and we're adding in a cup of almond milk in there with my coffee
stained cup, how beautiful does that look. Let's just pour it in, now I don't
actually have sweet coffee if you want a little bit of extra sweetener in here
you'll get it from the bananas but you can also add in a little bit of honey if
you want, maybe just a teaspoon, 1/2 a teaspoon. This makes two cups so you
decide. Now I wasn't going to put a sweetener in but I actually feel like it
now I've been looking at the honey, so maybe just add a teaspoon in there.
Secure the lid on your blender, power on and we're going to blend this on high
for about a minute, I've got a smoothie button so I'm
going to use it. Now that's made a super thick smoothie, if you want it thinner
then add a little more almond milk but I'm going to have it just the way it is, get
the lid off of here and give it a little shake through just to loosen it up a bit.
Now let's get them pour this out, I've got a couple of cups here, one for me and
one for Michele. Let's try and make it fairly even, now it's got a lot of
texture in there because that's the oatmeal you can leave the oatmeal out
but if you want something that's really nourishing leave it in. We've just
snapped some photographs, I've taken some granola and banana and put it on top if
you want to know how to make this delicious granola by the way you'll have
to watch episode 1 of the smoothies the recipes there. I'm ready to tuck in
I'm absolutely dying for this so let's give it a try. Bon Appetit! the bananas in
the way. It's like chocolate, it isn't chocolate obviously there's no chocolate
in it but it's rich it's so, so good, I think the combination of the banana, the
chia seed, coffee and the almond, it's just a lovely rich smoothie, an
absolutely delicious way to start the morning. If you're enjoying these
smoothie Tuesday series don't forget to comment down below and if you're
watching this on any social media share it out and like it so that your friends
can get chance to make this great smoothie. Be good and I'll see you next
Tuesday for another smoothie Tuesday. Check out some of the other recipes by
the way that we put up during the week on Steve's kitchen and I'll see you next
week, take care.
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