A fresh dragonfruit smoothie that boosts immunity, controls moods and hunger, is full of fiber, magnesium, vitamin Bs and is also kid-friendly! Bonus homemade quicky yogurt recipe, or use your own!
Dragonfruit Citrus Yogurt Smoothie
This fresh fruity smoothie is great at boosting immunity, controlling moods and hunger, and is also kid-friendly given that color!
Dragonfruit, or Pitaya, is a gloriously colored Asian melon-like fruit that comes in both white and dark pink meat. This smoothie was made with the latter, and it is full of fiber, magnesium, vitamin Bs and more!
Mild flavor, a bit like kiwi. And the color alone will brighten your day immeasurably!
This recipe also includes a fast easy way to make faux homemade yogurt. I used coconut meat here – I found it in the freezer section of Wholefoods – but you can also use soaked cashews to make yogurt – I have a recipe for that here.
It’s not traditional yogurt in that it technically hasn’t fermented for days, but it is still as healthy with the addition of quality probiotic powder.
Just snap open a capsule or two of your favorite, and pour it in.
If you are into yogurt and want to experiment with plant-based yogurts without paying top dollar (they are so expensive – especially the cashew yogurts! – then this recipe might be the answer for you!
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Dragonfruit Citrus Yogurt Smoothie
A fresh dragonfruit smoothie that boosts immunity, controls moods and hunger, is full of fiber, magnesium, vitamin Bs and is also kid-friendly! Bonus homemade quicky yogurt recipe, or use your own!
Ingredients
Dragonfruit Smoothie
- 2 cups dark pink dragonfruit (either frozen or mix 3 tbsp pitaya powder into 2 cups of yogurt)
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbs baobab powder
- 1/2 cup water or ice
Coconut Faux Yogurt
- 1 can coconut milk (full fat, organic, bpa-free - I use Whole Foods 365 brand)
- 1 tsp probiotic powder (30-50 billion active cultures)
- 1 tsp maple syrup
- 2 tsp lemon juice
Instructions
To Make Coconut "Faux" Yogurt
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The coconut milk cans should not be chilled overnight as is the case with some recipes. THat is because if you chill them, the solid fat will seperate from the liquid and in this recipe, you want them blended.
Shake up the room-temperature can, pour into a blender, along with other yogurt ingredients. To add the probiotic, break open the capsule and add it. Do not just throw the capsule in your blender.
Blend until smooth, and store yogurt up to two days in refrigerator. I make it well before I make parfaits so the yogurt I serve is cold.
NOTE: If you want to allow this yogurt to become real and not faux - meaning you would allow it to ferment and let the cultures expand giving the yogurt more gut-support-power - then make these changes to the process:
1. Mix the yogurt in a sterilized bowl - not a blender. The bowl can be straight from a dishwasher, or washed with very hot water and soap.
2. Hand mix the yogurt in that bowl, and cover bowl with a clean dish cloth. Put covered bowl in a warm-ish, dark corner in your kitchen - in a corner of the counter maybe? It is really fermented in 24 hours and at that point you can stir it some more and then store it in the refrigerator for use. You could wait 48 hours and the yogurt will be tangier and nearly effervescent, however, you run the risk of mold growing on the surface, so check for that if you go this route.
To Build Parfait
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Prepare the yogurt first. Layer it on the bottom of a jar.
Blend up the pink smoothie ingredients, and pour the smoothie on top of the yogurt. Serve very chilled and with a glass straw (to reduce plastic and avoid hormone-disruptors found in plastic straws).
Dee Dine is the recipe developer and writer behind Green Smoothie Gourmet. She shares her super healthy wholesome recipes on her blog and her Instagram that she feeds her family and friends. She gravitates toward recipes that are fast to create, plant-based, nutritious, easy, and use familiar ingredients. And chocolate is always a good idea! More about Dee.
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