Sweet Potato Smoothie
This sweet potato smoothie is like sipping on a creamy, cozy slice of pie. Blended with real sweet potato, warm cinnamon, and a hint of vanilla, it's a nutritious way to get a dose of fall any day.
🔍 Recipe At-A-Glance: Sweet Potato Smoothie
- 🕰️ Prep Time: 5 minutes
- 🍁 Flavor Profile: Like homemade sweet potato pie in a glass.
- 💪 What Makes It Healthy: 10g protein, 8g of fiber, plus tons of vitamins and minerals thanks to the sweet potato-especially Vitamins A and C.
- 🥄 Good For: Quick breakfasts, grab-and-go snacks, sneaking sweet potatoes into your kid's diet.
- ↪️ Make Ahead: Save some time in the morning with make ahead smoothies-no need to deal with a dirty blender when you're trying to get out the door!
- 🧡 Difficulty: Easy enough for kids to make!
"I love sweet potato in a smoothie! It's so delicious."
- KELLY -
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🧡 Why You'll Love This Recipe
You know I love easy healthy smoothie recipes, and this sweet potato smoothie is no exception. It tastes straight up like drinkable homemade sweet potato pie.
Here's why you'll love this recipe:
- Nutrition packed: Tons of protein and fiber to keep you going? Check. Tons of vitamins and minerals? Check. Check. Check.
- Leftover friendly: Leftover roasted sweet potato (from, say, sweet potato skins) gets a second life in the morning with this smoothie.
- Simple ingredients: Just straight-up produce, milk, and common pantry ingredients. No weird powders required.
- Your smoothie expert: My smoothies have been getting five star reviews all across the internet for nearly a decade, so you know I won't steer you wrong with how to make smoothies.
🍠 The Ingredients You Need
- Banana: Banana is working overtime, serving to both thicken and sweeten the smoothie.
- Roasted sweet potato: While raw sweet potatoes are edible, cooking them makes their vitamins and nutrients more bioavailable, meaning your body can absorb and process them more easily.
Make sure to check the recipe card below for the full ingredients list, along with quantities and my expert tips and tricks.
🔁 Variations & Substitutions
- Keep it raw: If you have a high-powered blender, you might be tempted to throw in a sweet potato raw into your smoothie and go to town. And while raw sweet potatoes are perfectly edible, to get the most nutrition and flavor out of sweet potatoes, they need to be cooked.
- Go vegan: Use plant-based milk to keep this smoothie vegan.
- No ice: Use frozen bananas, and you can skip the ice! You'll get a stronger flavor to the smoothie
- Skip the banana: Leave out the banana and replace it with canned pears, homemade yogurt (or this coconut milk yogurt recipe if you're vegan or dairy-free), or an avocado half. Take inspiration from my whole collection of smoothies without banana!
- Add ginger: Both dried or fresh ginger will give this smoothie a bit of a bite, and brings a bunch of health benefits. Or try any of our other smoothie booster pack addition ideas!
🥣 How to Make a Sweet Potato Smoothie
Step 1: Throw everything in the blender and blend, blend, blend until smooth.
Step 2: Pour into a glass and serve. Easy as pie (sweet potato pie?)
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🙋🏻♀️ Sweet Potato Smoothie FAQs
You'll need a pretty high-powered blender to process a raw sweet potato. But cooked sweet potato blends super easily!
I think so! Not only do they add a ton of fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, and potassium, but they also add a nice sweetness to the smoothie.
👩🏻🍳 My Expert Tips & Tricks
- Freeze the banana: Frozen bananas give more creaminess to your smoothie and will chill it without needing to add any ice. Who knew banana could be such a star player?
- Roast your sweet potato: Yes, you can blend raw sweet potato, but roasted tastes even better (and also makes the nutrients more available)!
- Give it a boost: If you love adding protein powder, seeds, or other ingredients to your smoothie to boost the nutrition, mix up some smoothie booster packs. Then all you have to do is drop one into the blender each time you make a smoothie!
- Make ahead: Did you know you can make ahead smoothies? Save yourself a dirty blender in the morning and make your smoothie in advance!
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📖 Recipe
Sweet Potato Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 ripe banana
- 1 cup roasted sweet potato either chunks or puree is fine
- 0-1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1 cup unsweetened milk animal, nut, soy, whatever!
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- Dash cinnamon
- Handful of ice cubes
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in the basin of a blender-sweeten to taste depending on the ripeness of your banana. Blend on high until very smooth and creamy. Pour and enjoy!
Notes
- Use plant-based milk to keep this recipe completely vegan.
- If you're not into bananas, replace it with ½ cup yogurt, ½ a ripe avocado, or canned pears. Sweeten to taste with maple syrup.
If you haven't tried roasted sweet potato in a smoothie, you are definitely missing out! I like to make this one with pumpkin pie spice for even more pie flavor!
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That was really perfect. I just enjoy it.I'v used almond milk in my smoothie and it tastes great. Thanks, Cassie, for putting it together.
Do you have the nutritional value?
There are lots of great calorie calculators out there that you can use!
Great idea Cassie using the Sweet Potato in a smoothie. I've never tried that. I'm inspired now to try !
Boiled cold sweet potatoes have a lower glycemic index than roasted sweet potatoes and higher amounts of Resistant Starch as well, which helps keep blood sugar levels stable and is a prebiotic. I boil and chill them in the refrigerator before using them.
if you want to be full try sweet potatoes roasted & peeled with coconut oil, butter & sweetener of your choice, then add kale, plain yogort, lemon juice & what ever else you want, you get a meal that will keep you full for hours. I work different hours so I add matcha to. I take it and water or tea and I am good for the day.
There is a down side-- if you have to intake your usual sugary anything, afterwards it will make it taste like just sugar and keep you full
Looks healthy and good!
Thank you! Been doing a 30 day challenge and had extra sweet potato. Was awesome. I don't have a big sweet tooth so didn't add the syrup and it was still great.
So glad you enjoyed!
This looks great! Sweet potatos in smoothies are my newest discovery! I love them in place of frozen bananas. My version of sweet potato smoothie is here if you are interested:
https://breakfastandsalads.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/grandmas-sweet-potato-smoothie/
One thing I added to this recipe was nutmeg... tastes very good with nutmeg!
I like to take the sweet potatoes that I grow, cook them in a crock pot for about 5 hours, peel them, puree them with a little water, and then freeze them in baggies to use in recipes later.
Such a great idea! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Recipes look great.....but I am very calorie conscious. Can you post the calories per Serving?
Hi Dotti: I don't post calorie counts, but you are welcome to take the recipe and put it into any of the online calorie calculators.
I love sweet potato in a smoothie! It's so delicious.
Yummm! You should be able to eat the sweet potato leaves, too <3
You can eat the sweet potato leaves. They are popular in Asian dishes. I don't know why you couldn't use them as you would use spinach in recipes.
What a great idea....maybe? Sounds interesting. I am in love with sweet potatoes myself lately. I love to bake them and put a little butter and cinnamon on mine. Delicious! And your sweet potatoes look great!
I never would have thought to use a sweet potato in a smoothie, but I love them so I bet it would be delicious!
I would never think to put sweet potatoes in for a smoothie. But, this would be awesome before/after a run! I'm hoping to start a garden next year so I'm sure I'll be looking at all your resources on the topic 🙂