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Choc Chip Mint Smoothie

Move over mint slice, this smoothie tastes just like mint choc chip ice-cream, only it’s much healthier. In fact, the traditional biscuit-y version has got nothing on this blended variety, which is full of sweet minty creaminess, minus the bloat.

Serves: 2

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Choc Chip Mint Smoothie

By: Lee Holmes

Move over mint slice, this smoothie tastes just like mint choc chip ice-cream, only it’s much healthier!


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Recipe


Ingredients

  • 1 frozen banana, roughly chopped
  • 1 bunch English spinach leaves
  • ¼ cup organic nut butter
  • ½ avocado, peeled & stone removed
  • Handful mint leaves or 0.5mL alcohol-free peppermint extract
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup almond milk
  • ½ cup coconut water
  • Handful ice (optional)
  • 3 tbsp raw cacao nibs

Method


  • Place all the ingredients except the cacao nibs in a powerful blender and blend until smooth. Add the cacao nibs and blend for another 5–10 seconds.
  • Pour into a tall glass and serve.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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