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Coconut Matcha Smoothie

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A healthy matcha smoothie chock full of bananas, coconut, and all kinds of goodness! Perfect for breakfast or a quick power snack.

Coconut Matcha Smoothie

Looking for a great post-workout smoothie or afternoon boost? A matcha coconut smoothie is the perfect combo of pep in your step and coconut banana goodness.

How to make a matcha smoothie

Making a matcha smoothie is so easy! Put your matcha, coconut, almond milk, banana, and ground flaxseed into a blender. Blend on high until smooth and creamy.

Your banana can be frozen or fresh, just depends on what you have on hand. The coconut can either be flaked or shredded, both work just fine. Also, you can use any non-dairy milk you have on hand!

Coconut Matcha Smoothie

What is matcha?

Matcha is a powder made of ground green tea leaves customarily made into a hot or iced drink. Most of the time, it’s blended with milk, sweetener, and vanilla extract.

The caffeine in matcha smoothie is more of a slow burn than coffee. It’s not quick a jolt like coffee, more of a smooth kick of energy.

If you want a great guide on how to make matcha for a drink, Love and Lemons has a great guide to making matcha.

Coconut Matcha Smoothie

How to make the best smoothie

In order to make the best matcha smoothie, it’s all about the order of ingredients!

It might seem like the order of ingredients in a smoothie doesn’t matter, but it really does! If you’re frustrated with getting chunky smoothies or ones that don’t quite blend up, I’ll tell you the order of ingredients is key.

You should order smoothie ingredients in the following way:

  • Liquid (almond milk)
  • Softer ingredients (like the banana)
  • Frozen ingredients
  • Other (coconut, matcha powder, vanilla)

This order when making a smoothie allows the blender to pull down the softer ingredients, blending them up first and then blending in the frozen ingredients.

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Coconut Matcha Smoothie

Coconut Matcha Smoothie

  • Author: Abby Thompson
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Total Time: 5 minutes
  • Yield: 1 1x
  • Category: Breakfast
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Description

A healthy matcha smoothie chock full of bananas, coconut and all kinds of goodness! Perfect for breakfast or a quick power snack.

Ingredients

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  • 1 cup almond milk
  • 1 teaspoon matcha green tea powder
  • 1 frozen banana
  • 1 tablespoon flaked or shredded coconut
  • 1 tablespoon ground flax seed
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Serve immediately.

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  4. I try to keep it seasonal but the winter months are more challenging. I go for berry & mango combinations, sometimes with ginger 🙂

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  5. I literally just dreamed about and made and chugged this smoothie down yesterday evening after my workout! I added some plant protein powder, and it was a great post-workout boost!! And, I also heart my Vitamix!!

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  7. I use a little bit of fresh tumeric root in most of my smoothies. Would you be willing to share your recipe for your c/b/s/t/h smoothie?

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  10. My go to Smoothie is not as interesting as other people’s. I like a frozen banana, and frozen fruit, a favorite is strawberry or raspberry, some real vanilla extract, stevia and a splash of vegan milk.

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  11. My morning smoothie is banana, mango, spinach, vanilla protein powder, cinnamon, fresh ginger, and spirulina. Thanks!

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  20. My favorite smoothie is pretty simple–pomegranate juice and frozen mixed berries with some vegan vanilla protein powder. So good!

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  23. Yum, my favorite smoothie combination is almond milk, strawberry pea protein powder, kale, ice, pineapple and ground flax

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  25. I am loving adding Trader Joes’ Power of Seven organic juice blend to all my smoothies! It’s soo yummy. I usually use a banana, spinach, frozen broccoli, almond milk, and a few frozen berries.

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  26. I love a chocolate smoothie from the book Everyday Detox! It has bananas, dates, chia seeds, milk and cocoa. Yummy!

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  28. I love matcha in a smoothie!! We’ve been on a major smoothie kick, and our Cuisinart Blender is kind of annoying me lately. A Vitamix would be soooooo lovely!!!! Happy New Year, friend – excited to see what you have in store for the blog this year. 🙂 xoxo

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  32. Looks delicious! I’m glad this was in my inbox because I actually got some matcha powder yesterday and I was trying to think of how I could use it for my breakfast today. Perfect timing!
    My favorite smoothie combo is blueberries and banana if a want a classic, or if I’m feeling crazy, I do frozen berries and cherries with fresh apple juice; tastes like nerds candy, no joke. You have to try it!

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  33. I’m totally failing on creating a green smoothie I love. Need some help with that!
    I love mixed berries and frozen banana, with coconut or almond milk.

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  34. I just made a smoothie with chopped frozen pears, 2% milk, a spoon of almond butter, cinnamon and honey – it was soo good!

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  38. This smoothie is so elegant! My favorite smoothie flavors are either peanut butter and jelly or peanut butter, banana, and chocolate! 🙂

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  39. My favorite smoothie is the “green monster” with spinach, banana, peanut butter and Greek yogurt! P.s. Abby you are amazing!

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  42. My all-time favorite smoothie combo is very simple- coconut water, spinach, frozen mango, and frozen pineapple. It’s bright neon green, and I love it, especially when I’m too tired to find spices and powders in my kitchen.

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  49. I had forgotten you won that basket of teas!!I can’t believe it but I still have yet to purchase my own matcha. Must do and make this smoothie! Can’t wait to see what’s to come for your blog this year! xo.

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  53. A routine smoothie is strawberry banana spinach w/nut butter and splash of almond/cashew milk. But for a treat I love banana date tahini…

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  54. My usual smoothie contains hemp or coconut milk, (frozen) banana, peanut or cashew butter (cashew butter’s the best!) and a couple of dates. Your recipe is obviously very different, and I’m really looking forward to getting up tomorrow morning and trying it! Thanks so much, and I wish you all the best in the new year!!

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  55. My usual smoothie contains hemp or coconut milk, (frozen) banana, peanut or cashew butter (cashew butter’s the best!) and a couple of dates. Your recipe is obviously very different, and I’m really looking forward to getting up tomorrow morning and trying it! Thanks so much, and I wish you all the best in the new year!!

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  58. My current favorite is frozen bananas with spinach, pineapple, mango, and cashew milk. Sometimes I’ll add chia or hemp seeds. Tasty!

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  60. My favorite smoothie combo, which I always have post workout: apple, celery, cucumber, beets, ginger, lemon, banana, hemp protein powder and chia. I can never get enough of the goodness!

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  73. I made the matcha tea smoothie this morning and it is very refreshing. When getting my frozen banana out of the frig, I spied some dark chocolate-dipped bananas in the back. Might try one of them for a special treat!

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  85. This coconut matcha smoothie looks AMAZING!! My fav at the moment is green apple, spinach and coconut oil with plain greek yogurt:)

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  86. My favorite smoothie combo is to make a heathy cookies and cream mix by using almond milk, hemp protein, dates, Brazil nuts, raw cocoa, frozen banana, cinnamon and a little honey!!

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  88. The combination of smoothie that I love is 2 cups pf frozen mango, 1ape cored and chopoed 2 cups spinach, 1 1/2 cups nut milk coconut milk or coconut water, juice of 1 lime, 1/2 thau green chili , seeds removed, 1 teaspoon spirulina, 1 tablespoon ofcoconut butter and pinch of salt. I love this combination since is a demonstration of how dinamic could be a smoothie , and still full of nutrients

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  89. Looks and sounds sooo good! I think I may need to buy matcha powder now. My fav smoothie currently is frozen mango, vanilla protein powder, almond milk, and tamarindo… sometimes I add berries and I’ve added greens powder too 🙂

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  92. I make smoothies regularly. My favorite is homemade pumpkin seed milk, cacao, Himalayan salt, a pinch of cayenne, 1 tsp maca, banana and hazelnut butter.

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  94. I can guarantee pretty much any smoothie with mango and pineapple in it will be gulped down immediately! Still need to try macha in smoothie form 🙂

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  95. Our blender is terrible, so I don’t make them that often. Ha! But when I do get a Vitamix, I am going to come back her and try all these recipes.

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  96. I love banana, almond butter, vanilla or chocolate plant based protein powder, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and almond milk!

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  98. This looks great! My favorite smoothie combination lately has been soy milk, frozen strawberries, banana, and almond butter. It’s even better as a smoothie bowl, and with pretzels crumbled on top!

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  114. Kudos to you for taking a much-needed break. It can be difficult to balance work, holidays, and life with blogging…a couple weeks on the couch sounds divine! Keep up the great work, m’dear! I love everything you do here, and you’re so talented. I’m happy to hear you’re planning on keeping the ball rolling through the new year. And dis smoovie….amazeballs! I love matcha and will have to try out your recipe!

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  120. My favorite smoothie is almond milk, spinach, blueberries, avocado, banana and chia seeds. Thanks for the chance!

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  125. My favourite from London is Turmeric, Red Apple, Banana, Coconut oil and Bee Pollen (instead of Honey☺😉). It’s like a velvet 👋

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  126. Yummy smoothie! I love matcha and it worked really well with the coconut in this recipe. Defintely use frozen bananas. I also like it with dairy milk because it gets nice and thick.

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