Do you know dragon fruit? We don’t use it much here, but its bright pink color works wonders in a smoothie. Katrine Paradis, from the K pour Katrine blog, understood it: she created with her daughter Margaux a recipe for a pitaya smoothie bowl (another name for this exotic fruit). She made one with us.
Posted at 11:00 a.m.
Dragon fruit smoothie bowl
For 2 servings
Ingredients
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Dragon Fruit Smoothie Bowl Ingredients
For the smoothie
- 3 cups (750 mL) tropical dragon fruit frozen smoothie mix*
- 1 cup (250 ml) non-dairy milk of your choice
- 1 C. (15 ml) lime juice
For garnish
- 1/2 cup (125 mL) vanilla coconut yogurt
- 1/2 cup (125 mL) sliced strawberries
- 1/3 cup (80 mL) salted almonds, toasted, coarsely chopped
- 2 tbsp. (30 ml) hemp seeds
- 1 C. tablespoons raw cacao nibs (optional)
- 1 C. tablespoons freeze-dried raspberries (optional)
Preparation
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1. Place frozen fruit, almond milk and lime juice in blender. Blend until smooth. You can add vegetable milk if necessary, but the texture must remain quite thick.
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2. Pour the mixture into two bowls and add the coconut yogurt.
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3. Add remaining toppings. Here, we opted for strawberries and blueberries, before dusting everything with toasted almonds, hemp seeds, raw cacao nibs and freeze-dried raspberries.
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*You can find this mix in the frozen fruit section at Metro. It is made with dragon fruit, mango, pineapple and coconut. Alternatively, some health food stores sell frozen dragon fruit sticks.