This strawberry banana smoothie bowl is a creamy, thick vegan smoothie bowl to start the day with vitamins and nutrients. Bonus, you can turn this into a high-protein vegan smoothie bowl by adding your favorite plant-based protein powder into it.

I love making simple and healthy plant-based breakfasts and when I’m not making my vegan crepes or vegan pancakes, I make a smoothie bowl, like Vegan Açaí Bowl or Pitaya Bowl. If I want something even more summery, I make one with strawberries and bananas.

A Banana Smoothie Bowl is a thicker smoothie served, in a bowl with pieces of fresh fruit for a delicious nutrient-loaded breakfast.

Who doesn’t love a smoothie bowl for breakfast? It’s like serving ice cream for breakfast with all the benefits of adding healthy breakfast toppings you have in the pantry. So let’s see how you can make this banana strawberry smoothie bowl at home.

How To Make Strawberry Banana Smoothie Bowl

This paragraph gives you all my tips about picking the right ingredients. For the full recipe with measurements, scroll to the recipe card at the bottom of the post!Go to Full Recipe

This is the easiest recipe ever to start the day with a healthy breakfast. All you need to make a thick, creamy smoothie bowl are 3-ingredients:

Frozen Ripe Bananas – peel, cut them in chunks, and place them in an airtight container in the freezer the day before.
Frozen Strawberries – you can freeze freshly picked strawberries or buy ready frozen strawberries.
Unsweetened Almond Milk – or any non-dairy milk you love like oat milk, coconut milk, or soy milk for a protein boost.

You can make a smoothie bowl in a food processor or a high-speed blender. Both options work, but I tend to prefer my food processor as the large blade makes it easier to blend the frozen fruits.

First, place the frozen fruits and half milk in the blender. Start blending at low speed to form a sort of fruit crumble.
Add the remaining milk and blend until smooth using the blender tamper tool to push down the fruits into the jug’s center. It takes a few minutes for the smoothie to come together. You can add more almond milk if the blade has difficulties bringing the ingredients together. However, never add more than 1 tablespoon of extra milk at a time, or you can turn the texture into a thin smoothie.

Smoothie bowl ingredients in the jug of a blender.

Food Processor Option

You can also add all the ingredients directly into a food processor.

Process all the ingredients on low speed at first.
When the ingredients start to come together into thick ice cream, stop the food processor, remove the lid, and scrape down the sides of the bowl.
Next, repeat the blending scraping process a few times until no more fruit bites show.

Smoothie bowl ingredients in a food processor.

Expert Tips for Texture

The key is to make a smoothie bowl thick and not runny, is a perfect ratio of frozen fruits to liquid. You must weigh the frozen fruits in grams or ounces and don’t use measuring cups for frozen fruits.

It won’t be accurate, and then you will struggle to adjust the amount of non-dairy milk, adding too much, and turning the bowl into a runny smoothie.

So to make a thick smoothie bowl like nice cream, always aim for this exact combo of ingredients:

6 oz of frozen fruits – any frozen fruits strawberry, banana, pineapple, mango. Don’t use fresh fruit for smoothie bowls!
1/2 cup non-dairy milk of choice.

The best fruits to increase the thickness of smoothie bowls are:

Ripe banana
Mango
Dried dates

Making High-Protein Smoothie Bowl

If you want to make the smoothie bowl a bit thicker, add high protein or high fiber ingredients like:

plant-based protein powder
cashews
chia seeds
flaxseed meal
nut butter like almond butter or peanut butter.
Homemade granola such as my Chocolate Granola or my Peanut Butter Granola Recipe.

However, note that adding any of these ingredients will make the smoothie difficult to blend. It means you will have to add more non-dairy milk, 1 tablespoon at a time. If your smoothie bowl is difficult to blend, add more non-dairy milk 1 tablespoon at a time, not more!

Blend between each addition, scraping down the jug’s sides with the blender tamper or spatula for the food processor. Patience and slow addition of liquid are the magic ingredients to keep the smoothie bowl thick.

Best Toppings

Smoothie bowls are healthy breakfasts as long as you add the right smoothie bowl toppings to them. A smoothie bowl itself is basically fruits and milk of choice. It means it brings you vitamins, fiber, and carbs from fruits and protein from milk.

The best toppings for smoothie bowls are the ones that add complementary nutrition like:

Seeds – most seeds are great sources of plant-based proteins, vitamins, and fiber. They are also gut-friendly and fulfilling. Great seeds to add on top of your smoothie bowl are pumpkin seeds, hemp seeds, sunflower seeds, chia seeds, or golden flaxseeds.
Grains – oats, buckwheat cereals, puffed quinoa all these grains are great sources of plant-based protein and fiber as well to keep you full.
Nut butter
Coconut flakes
Fresh fruits – a smoothie bowl is often topped with fresh fruits like blueberries, raspberries, sliced bananas, and fresh strawberries.

More Vegan Smoothie Bowls

If you love this strawberry banana smoothie bowl recipe, you may also want to try one of my plant-based smoothie bowl below.

Acai Bowl Recipe

Pitaya Bowl

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