Apple Spinach Smoothie
A big boost of nutrition all while enjoying a drink that tastes straight up like apple pie? Sign me up! This apple spinach smoothie is one of my fave Fall breakfasts (tied with pumpkin spice overnight oats). It's got the flavor of apple pie while giving you tons of protein and fiber to fuel your day!
🔍 Recipe At-A-Glance: Apple Spinach Smoothie
- ⏰ Prep Time: 5 minutes
- 🍏 Flavor Profile: It tastes like apple pie in a glass!
- 💪 What Makes It Healthy: 13g protein, 6g of fiber, plus tons of vitamins and minerals thanks to the spinach-like 126% of your recommended daily allowance of vitamin A!
- 🥄 Good For: Quick and easy breakfasts, on-the-go snacks, kids eats
- 🧡 Difficulty: Even kids can make this one!
"APPLICIOUS! This was the first Wholefully smoothie my teens decided to make. They added vanilla protein powder and extra spinach for increased nutritional value. Then they garnished the top with crushed graham crackers (pie crust) and sprinkled cinnamon. It was APPLaudingly delicious!!"
- DEB -
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🧡 Why You'll Love This Recipe
Hi friend: You know I'm your girl when it comes to easy healthy smoothie recipes, and this green apple spinach smoothie is one of my favorite creations for fall! It tastes straight up like an apple pie in a glass, and you can pair it with my apple cinnamon muffin recipe to double the apple flavor.
Here's why you'll love this recipe:
- Dessert for breakfast: This tastes like apple pie! Heck, you could drizzle on some caramel on top to taste like my caramel apple pie recipe.
- Packed with nutrition: Protein ✅ Fiber ✅ Vitamins and Minerals ✅ Healthy Probiotics ✅
- Super simple to make: No added powders or weird ingredients. Just stuff you probably have on hand.
- Your smoothie expert: I have dozens of smoothies with thousands of five star reviews, so you know I won't lead you astray with how to make smoothies.
🍏The Ingredients You Need
- Apple cider: You're looking for apple cider not apple juice. It has more intense apple flavor! Use any leftovers from the jug to make cocktails later like apple cider sangria, spiked apple cider, or an apple cider hot toddy.
- Applesauce: This adds sweetness, a smooth texture, and intense apple flavor to your smoothie. Use store bought applesauce, my applesauce recipe for canning, freezer applesauce, or Instant Pot applesauce-they all work!
- Greek yogurt: Adds creaminess, healthy probiotics, protein, and helps thicken the smoothie. Use storebought or homemade yogurt (it's so easy!).
- Spinach: Baby spinach will give you the best flavor, but bigger spinach can work too as long as you remove the stems.
Make sure to check the recipe card below for the full ingredients list, along with quantities and my expert tips and tricks.
🔁 Variations & Substitutions
- Skip the banana: Leave out the banana and add in canned pears, more applesauce, or an avocado half. I have a whole bunch of smoothies without banana that you can checkout for more tips on how to de-banana any smoothie recipe.
- Make it vegan/dairy-free: Sub in dairy-free yogurt. Try my coconut milk yogurt recipe.
- Boost the nutrition: Add in protein powder, more spinach, collagen, chia seeds, flax meal-go wild!
- Add in whole apples: My recipe leaves out whole apples just because they can be rough on some blenders, but if you have a powerful blender, feel free to toss in some sliced apples (keep on the peels for added fiber).
🥤 How to Make Apple Spinach Smoothie
Step 1: Combine all ingredients in a high powered blender. Blend until smooth.
Step 2: Pour into a glass and garnish with a sprinkle of cinnamon.
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🙋🏻♀️ Apple Spinach Smoothie FAQs
Spinach and apple are packed with fiber, protein, and tons of vitamins and minerals to fuel your day. Spinach has tons of vitamin K, vitamin A, iron, and Vitamin C.
Absolutely! Raw spinach blends almost seamlessly into smoothies and has a mild enough flavor to be covered up in most fruit smoothies. Stick with baby spinach for the best blending.
👩🏻🍳 My Expert Tips & Tricks
- Use apple cider: Cider gives you a huge boost of apple flavor!
- Freeze your bananas: Frozen bananas add a ton of creaminess and coolness to this smoothie. If you don't have frozen bananas, that's okay-room temp will work, too.
- Use a high powered blender: No one wants to chew a green smoothie! Use a powerful blender to get this smoothie, well, smooth! My KitchenAid immersion blender, VitaMix professional blender, and Ninja personal blender all do the trick just fine with this smoothie.
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📖 Recipe
Apple Spinach Smoothie
Ingredients
- ½ cup 100% apple cider
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 cup lightly packed baby spinach
- ½ cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1 medium frozen banana
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon or to taste
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
- A few ice cubes
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in the carafe of a blender and blend on high until smooth. Taste and blend in more cinnamon if desired. Pour into a glass and serve immediately.
Notes
- If you love cinnamon, sprinkle a little more on top of the smoothie to serve.
- To make this dairy-free, use dairy-free yogurt like my instant pot coconut yogurt.
APPLICIOUS!
This was the first "Wholefully" smoothie my teens decided to make. They added vanilla protein powder and extra spinach for increased nutritional value. Then they garnished the top with crushed graham crackers (pie crust) and sprinkled cinnamon. It was APPLaudingly delicious!!
Next time, they are going to try substituting the applesauce with fresh Granny Smith Apples.
Yum! We're so glad you and your teens are enjoying the recipe and having fun making it your own. Thanks for taking the time to tell us about it, Deb!
I love the color of that smoothie, surely tastes as good as it looks!
Just tried this today, it is definitely my NEW favorite green smoothie! Just found your site, and I LOVE it too 🙂
I have a home daycare and the children always ask for a ''green'' smoothie, which is spinach, banana, mango, pineapple and a little water. They love it and I do too.
This was awesome!
Yum, just my kind of winter drink 🙂
Are you using a regular blender? And it's handling the ice ok? I was wondering because I don't have a VitaMix or Blend Tec, just a blender by Cuisnart and a Juicer by the Juiceman.
I am using a regular KitchenAid blender. I can't afford those fancy things! 😛 And yes, it does ice just fine.
I spy a jug of Huber Farm apple cider! Hands down best cider ever made.
So glad I found this! You just combined two of my FAVORITE things. Cassie, you're my new hero. And your hair and glasses are super cute. Just thought I should mention since it's my first time here. x
Hi
I'm allergic to bananas ... any suggestions for what I could put in instead of the banana?
thanks AJ
Hmmm, you could skip the bananas all together and just add a little bit of sweetener (like honey or maple syrup). The banana is really there just to sweeten the smoothie.
Hello. I just did this smoothie and it was great.
From Canada, I am wishing you a good day.
Elise
Aaah, so festive! I thought about doing a pumpkin green smoothie the other day but decided that the color scheme would just be too awful 🙂
I usually think green smoothies look so gross, but yours looks delicious! I think I just associate the green with green apples. Totally a mind game. 🙂
This looks divine! I'm sharing it with my fiance right away 🙂 He's a smooth(ie) operator..
The photos are gorgeous as usual. I do green smoothies pretty much every day, yep yep! My fave is almond milk/spinach/vanilla protein powder/1 T almond butter. I'm crushing on this apple pie idea, tho, yum! Glad you're feeling better, too. 🙂
Amazing!!!! I love the colours in these photos.
Ohhh this looks like a good one to share with the kids! Thanks!
Perfect timing! I'm sitting here feeling miserable and full of cold! I'll have to set myself up with one of these for tomorrow morning! My strategy for colds is lots of Vit C, healthy food, pills when I need them and as much sleep as I can get.