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Healthy Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie with Cacao Nibs

This peanut butter banana smoothie is great for breakfast or as a healthy dairy-free milkshake. Kefir adds probiotics. Cacao, coconut oil and raw honey are powerful anti-oxidants and full of health benefits.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Banana and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 308 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, peanut, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Add the peeled banana, peanut butter, raw honey, vanilla, and coarse sea salt to a blender.

  2. Pour in the almond milk and lactose-free kefir.

  3. Add the extra virgin coconut oil. If it is solid, let it sit at room temperature for a few minutes first so it blends smoothly.

  4. Blend on high for 45 to 60 seconds until completely smooth and creamy.

  5. Reserve a pinch of the cacao nibs for garnish and add the rest to the blender.

  6. Blend for 10 more seconds to break up the nibs slightly.

  7. Pour the smoothie into a glass, sprinkle the reserved cacao nibs on top, and serve right away.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Banana + peanuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together308 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Banana + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Vanilla + milktop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Banana + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs