Rainbow unicorn smoothies are beneficial nutritionally as well as mentally. So I challenge you to boost your morning with a pretty rainbow parfait or colorful unicorn smoothie bowl - colored with fruits and veggies and superfoods.
Rainbow Unicorn Protein Smoothies.
Rainbow food, using color therapy, is said to actually be beneficial in more ways than nutritionally: it can stave off hunger pains, help you lose weight, boost your mood.
So make your meal pretty, color it with berries, adorn it with flowers and decoratively-arranged fruits, and make your setting eye-pleasing as well. Toward this end, my British mother always says "If you have 5 pence, spend 4 on bread and 1 on a flower."
Influenced by this thinking, we always set our breakfast table colorfully with napkins, and place-mats, and flowers and a water glass for each. It gives us all such a mental boost to the start of our day.
But of course the nutritional benefits of eating the rainbow are obviously so important as well. If you are interested in learning the specific nutritional benefits per color, check out my HOW to eat the Rainbow (Nutrition benefits per color).
So my rainbow unicorn protein smoothie bowls are valuable in multiple ways!
I color these smoothies with fruit, veggies and superfoods. The specific colors come from berries, matcha, spirulina, beets and more.
I have provided both recipes below - one for rainbow unicorn smoothie bowls and one for rainbow unicorn parfaits.
Happy colorful breakfast to you too!
THIS RECIPE is featured on:
-- Well + Good - in a chia seed round up, see article here.
--PureWow - in an article showcasing the new #Unicorn food trend: read article here.
And is also featured here and here. Unicorn food is popular!
Rainbow Unicorn Protein Smoothie Bowls
Ingredients
For Smoothie Bowls : Makes 3 cups
- 2 ½ cups plant yogurt
- 2 tbsp white chia seeds
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- ½ cup blueberries
- ½ cup raspberries
- ½ cup mango
- 1 tsp blue spirulina (I use this brand)
for Superfood Parfaits : Makes 3 cups
- 2 ½ cups plant yogurt
- 2 tbsp white chia seeds
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- ½ cup blueberries
- ½ tsp ceremonial green matcha (I use this brand)
- ½ tsp beet powder (I use this brand)
- 1 tsp blue spirulina (I use this brand)
Instructions
To make both the bowl and parfaits
- Blend up the yogurt with the chia seeds and lemon juice - it freshens the flavor.
- Divide that into four bowls.
To make the bowls
- Stir in the berries, fruit and spirulina into each to create a pink bowl, a purple bowl, a yellow bowl, and a blue/green bowl.
- Distribute in family smoothie bowls for all. I topped mine with coconut dust, pitaya and melon stars, nuts, oats, quinoa pops and fruit for a heavenly unicorn morning.
To make the parfaits
- Stir in the matcha in one bowl to make green, the beet powder in another to make dark pink, the blue spirulina in another to make blue, and blend up the blueberries into the last bowl to make purple.
- Distribute the colors into parfait glasses, and pipe white yogurt with a french star tip!
Nutrition
Dee Dine is founder of Green Smoothie Gourmet, a plant based recipe blog, and author of the recent cookbook, Crazy Healthy with 4 Ingredients and another immunity-boosting smoothie shot book, 4-Ingredient Smoothies + Juices , due out in January 2021. On this blog you'll find incredibly easy recipes with hidden veggies for anyone wanting to eat healthier, regardless of diet. Dee has graduate degrees in sciences and journalism, editor at The Feedfeed and a nutritional expert at WikiHow. More about Dee Dine here.
Kenna
Anyone know the nutritional facts?
Debbie
Hi Kenna, I recommend you plug the ingredients into a nutrition app. I will eventually add nutrition to my recipes, not yet though. Dee
anna
This is too pretty!!! Love the idea of unicorn food, I see it popping everywhere at the moment, and your smoothie bowls definitely do this trend a justice!!! Gorgeous pastel colors looks so inviting!
Love your creativity Dee!
Hug, xx
Debbie
Anna, you are so sweet, might have needed a bit more purple here, but thank you so much! I also love the trend, I have always always loved pastels and fairytales! Take care, and thanks for stopping by! Dee xx.
Izzy
These look amazing - they are so pretty!
Izzy | pinch of delight
Debbie
Hi Izzy, so glad you stopped by! I plan to visit your blog too, thank you so much! Glad you like my bowls! Dee xx.