Beautiful Smoothie Bowls: 80 Delicious and Colorful Superfood Recipes to Nourish and Satisfy
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Carissa Bonham, the writer behind the popular blog, Creative Green Living, pulls together eighty delectable recipes for smoothies so good that your kids, friends, and veggie-hating spouse will be begging for more.
If you can operate a blender, then you can make a smoothie bowl. Carissa walks you through everything you need to know to produce Instagram-worthy creations in your own kitchen. Every recipe tastes as good as it looks and fills you up, making smoothie bowls the perfect choice for any meal or midday snack.
Focusing on a variety of colorful superfoods, Carissa also discusses the nutritional benefits of these beautiful ingredients. Organized using the colors of the rainbow, flipping through these pages will leave you feel inspired and motivated to create these beautiful, healthy bowls.
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Beautiful Smoothie Bowls - Carissa Bonham
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Beautiful Smoothie Bowls
What a refreshing look at smoothies! Healthy smoothies are essentially nutrient-dense foods through a straw, and yet one of the joys of eating is seeing the ingredients of our food and chewing them. Bravo to Carissa Bonham for giving us both in her rainbow-colored goodness-packed recipes. These beautiful bowls are part-smoothie goodness, part sprinkles of fruit, nuts, seeds, and other wholesome delights. You cannot help but fall in love with them. A beautifully done book which leaves you feeling satiated and guilt-free!
—Farnoosh Brock, author of The Healthy Smoothie Bible and The Healthy Juicer’s Bible
Carissa is Queen of Smoothie bowls. I love her recipes and recommend this book for anyone who wants to start or maintain a healthy lifestyle.
—Leah Segedie, founder of Mamavation and ShiftCon
I’ve always been a fan of smoothies, but I have to say that they never really filled me up and left me satisfied. That is, until smoothie bowls came on the scene! Carissa and her team have put together a beautiful book featuring beautiful food. Not only do you have eighty recipes to choose from, but you also get a full education about why smoothie bowls are superior, what ingredients to use, and how to maximize your bowl’s nutrition. Even those on special diets will be able to enjoy the flavorful creations Carissa presents in this stunning book!
—Jessica Espinoza, wellness coach and founder of DeliciousObsessions.com
Title Page of Beautiful Smoothie BowlsCopyright © 2017 by Carissa Bonham
Photographs © 2017 by Carissa Bonham on pages 14, 31, 34, 41, 45, 57, 64, 68, 71, 73, 79, 92, 98, 101, 103, 104, 107, 110, 114, 119, 120, 123, 124, 128, 139, 145, 151, 152, 156, 159, 163, 164, 167, 168, 172, 176, 180, 183, 184, 187, 191, 193, 195, 196, 199, 200, 204, 207, 208
Photographs © 2017 by Karissa Martindale on pages 50, 55, 59, 60, 62, 66, 74, 132, 140, 188
Photograph © 2017 by Niina Downey on page 26
All other photographs by the recipe author, unless otherwise noted.
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Cover design by Jenny Zemanek
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Print ISBN: 978-1-5107-1949-1
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5107-1950-7
Printed in China
For Asher and Kaypha:
May you always know and love what real food tastes like.
Contents
Introduction
How to Use This Book
Smoothie Bowl Magic
Why Smoothie Bowls?
Smoothie Bowl Basics
A Rainbow of Nourishing Superfoods
Blending Our Way Through the Rainbow
Berries and Cream
Piña Colada
Apple Pie
Fruity Colada
Watermelon Dream
Banana Berry
Tropical Dragon Nice Cream
Dragonberry
Teaberry
Something Pink Please
Millions of Peaches
Peachy Pom
Creamy Cherry Berry Booster
Cherry Cobbler
Berry Best
Coconut Raspberry Cooler
Bright Berry Açai
Pretty in Pitaya
Kombucha Cherry Chiller
Pink Kisses
Enchanted Summer Dream
Kind of a Fig Deal
Berry Avocado Bliss
Berry Heart Beets
A Bowl Full of Cherries
Dark Berry
Raspberry Lemonade Nice Cream
Northwest Summer
Razzle Dazzle Nice Cream
Blissful Beet Berry
Peachberry Nice Cream
Berry Party
Island Sunrise
Summer Sunset
Tropical Twist Nice Cream
Peachy Keen
Sunshiney Day
Orange Carrot Love
Sweet Potato Pie
Carrot Cake
Peachy Protein Powerhouse
Pineapple Paradise
Smashing Pumpkin
Feeling Peachy
Peach Perfection
Sunny Days
Everything’s Peachy
Piña Colada Nice Cream
Pineapple Kick
Tangy Tropical Treat
Honeydew Nice Cream
Mermaid Magic Nice Cream
It Hass to be Good
Groovy & Green
Green-ya Colada
Tropical Greens
Pentatonic Kale
Summer Paradise
Green Monster
Green Goodness
Mighty Mint
See You on the Color Side
Ocean Blue
Blueberry Muffin
Exotic Probiotic
Matcha Berry Energy
Morning Matchavation
Tropical Berry Breeze
Sacre-Blue!
Açai Supercharge
Fig Love
Dark Forest
Blackberry Delight
Black and Blue Nice Cream
Surf Rider
Purple Cow Nice Cream
Açai Bliss
Berries ‘n Booch
Purple Dragon Nice Cream
Greenberry
Join Me on a Smoothie Bowl Journey
Recipe Contributor Credits
Resources
Acknowledgments
Index
Conversion Charts
Introduction
This book has been a true labor of love. For more than four years now, I’ve dedicated my website, Creative Green Living, to helping moms and dads make healthier lifestyle choices that are both beautiful and delicious. British food icon Jamie Oliver once called the idea that healthy food is boring or tasteless rubbish,
and I couldn’t agree more. After looking through and sampling some the recipes in this book, I hope you’ll agree. Each of these recipes is designed to be both nourishing and delicious—and nice to look at, too!
Although healthy food that tastes delicious has been a personal passion of mine for years, I wanted to make sure this book would bring you more perspectives and taste palates than my own. As such, I partnered with some of the best healthy food bloggers and Instagrammers worldwide when assembling this book. Photos and recipes for their beautiful smoothie bowls appear throughout these pages. If a recipe is not my own, it’s clearly marked with the name of its creator at the top of the page with more information about her below the recipe itself. I don’t claim to have a monopoly on beautiful, healthy food, and I encourage you to follow these women on their sites and Instagrams so that you can be inspired by healthy food daily. And while you’re at it, be sure to follow me on Instagram as both @CreativeGreenLiving and @CreativeGreenKitchen.
I want to personally thank each of these amazing women for contributing to this project. Instead of listing them here, I encourage you to flip to page 211 to check out the recipe contributor credits and see the full list of contributors and read more about them!
May your bellies be full and your bodies be nourished by these recipes. If you have a favorite, let me know on social media (@CreativeCarissa on Twitter, @CreativeGreenLiving or @CreativeGreenKitchen on Instagram). Even better, snap a photo and post it to Instagram with #BeautifulSmoothieBowls and be sure to tag @CreativeGreenKitchen.
How to Use This Book
I’m a firm believer that anyone who can both safely use a knife and operate a blender can make a beautiful smoothie bowl. If you’re a beginner, be sure to read the chapters before the actual recipes for your crash course in Smoothie Bowls 101—you’ll be a smoothie bowl pro in no time!
Every recipe in this book is gluten friendly so if you have celiac or a gluten sensitivity, you’re in luck! Now, the gluten friendliness
of the recipes only goes as far as the ingredients you choose. This means that for recipes that include oats, granola, cereal, or any other prepackaged item, you will want to be sure to read the labels and choose gluten-free options and foods that were not processed in facilities that also process wheat if you have a true gluten allergy or intolerance. If you aren’t sensitive to gluten, of course, you can choose any variety of these products that you wish—although I recommend choosing organic whenever possible. This is in large part because some nonorganic farmers use glyphosate (a.k.a. Round Up), an herbicide, in the preparation of their oats and other grains for harvest. Side of Round Up with your smoothie? No thanks! Glyphosate is not permitted in organic agriculture, so that’s just one more reason I choose organic as much as possible.
To help you easily find recipes that match your personal dietary preferences, I have labeled each recipe with the applicable labels here:
• Vegan: Recipe contains no animal-derived ingredients. You will find fifty recipes with this label, although the remaining thirty are easily adapted to a vegan lifestyle by substituting coconut yogurt for dairy yogurt, plant milk for dairy milk, and agave syrup for honey. One recipe contains gelatin, but it’s just as delicious when you leave that ingredient out (or try it with ground chia or flaxseed instead!). All the recipes except the one containing gelatin are vegetarian.
• Paleo: Recipe that meets the requirements for most people living a paleo lifestyle. These recipes will not contain any grains, dairy, or highly processed foods, but may contain maple syrup or honey. Recipes containing agave are not labeled as paleo, but in most instances, honey or maple syrup make an excellent paleo substitute. Of the forty-one recipes labeled as paleo, thirty-seven also meet the requirements for Whole 30—what many people would describe as an extreme version of paleo.
For more information on Whole 30, see www.whole30.com.
• Gluten Free: Recipe as-written does not use gluten-containing ingredients. If you are gluten sensitive, you are still responsible for selecting appropriate gluten-free ingredients for prepackaged goods like granola, oats, and cereals that may contain gluten or have been cross-contaminated during the packaging process.
• Dairy Free: While the vegan recipes also happen to be dairy free, I wanted to label the sixty-two dairy-free recipes separately because not everyone avoiding dairy due to a milk allergy or lactose intolerance are vegans and also avoiding other animal-derived ingredients like honey. The dairy-containing smoothies usually contain yogurt or dairy milk. In these instances, coconut yogurt or a plant-based milk would be an easy swap to make a smoothie fit a dairy-free lifestyle.
Smoothie Bowl Magic
Taking a pile of fruits and veggies