Yes! Another pumpkin recipe – I still have leftovers JBut I can promise you this one is healthy. It’s another of my dessert related smoothies which I have featured throughout the year. Have you not seen them?
There has been a Black Forest smoothie, a Lemon Meringue Pie Smoothie, Hummingbird Smoothie, Apple Pie and a Carrot Cake one.
Since I started doing them, I knew I wanted to make a Pumpkin Pie flavor. Pumpkin is everywhere at the moment – as it’s nearly Halloween of course. And to kind of tie in with that, I decided to make this smoothie a green one - all witch-skin toned.
Green smoothies are even healthier than normal ones, lots of hidden gems in the ingredients which give them their hue. All sorts of veg can be used – such as kale or bok choy. But my green of choice is spinach. Packed full of iron and other nutrients, it also gives smoothies a deeply vert tinge.
To make this smoothie I used oat milk, which is packed full of fiber and has no dairy. You could use almond, soya, whatever you have. I used the canned pumpkin and the fruit of choice was a banana.
And to give it that authentic pumpkin pie taste – spice. I added cinnamon, nutmeg and ground ginger.The spices too have lots of health benefits which you can read about in the Carrot Cake post.
I popped all of the ingredients in my fantastic Optimum 9400 from Froothie and let it do it’s thing.
The final drink tastes like pie, is refreshing, fills you up and gives you a great green ‘tash after you drink it…enjoy!
Green Pumpkin Pie Smoothieby Stuart Vettese October-16-2014Healthy green smoothie with the flavours of a pumpkin pieIngredients
- 250 ml oat milk (or other non-dairy)
- 100 grams canned pumpkin
- 1 medium banana
- two LARGE handfuls spinach leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- water
Disclosure Statement: I received the Optimum 9400 free to review. Any opinions expressed are my own.
