Often times I find that we are complicating smoothies. Have you ever looked at a smoothie recipe before and wonder why there are so many ingredients in a small drink? Sure, they can be filled with superfoods, but I think simple smoothies are the way to go. This is especially true when it’s a tea infused smoothie because too many ingredients can mask the tea’s flavour. My go-to lately has been this simple matcha smoothie. Matcha can have a strong taste in smoothies but the taste could hide depending on what you combine it with. I like to be able to taste my tea. I mean, that’s why I’m adding it in the first place.
I had the flu last week and all I really wanted were smoothies and my homemade cold relief tea.
This Simple Matcha Smoothie was a regular because it was quick to make and so rewarding. All it takes is 5 ingredients (6 if you’re counting the optional one) and 5 minutes.
If you have never used frozen bananas in a smoothie before, you’re missing out! Seriously. Frozen bananas are a staple for my smoothies because they make them nice and cold (who wants a warm smoothie?!) and they make them sooooooo creamy!
The spinach adds more vitamins and a vibrant green colour with the matcha green tea, too. I also added in fresh ginger because that’s another staple for me when I’m sick.
The optional ingredient is protein powder. Sometimes I make it without, but when I do add it in my favourite brand is Vega. In this particular smoothie, I used their French Vanilla Vega One Nutritional Shake.
With these few ingredients, this green smoothie really just tastes like a creamy ginger matcha shake. Every time I sip it I wonder if I forgot to add spinach because I can never taste it (sidenote: the spinach is never forgotten).
So, get ready for the prettiest, simplest, and tastiest green smoothie yet…
*Note: Don’t use your ceremonial grade matcha for this. If you have a culinary grade, be sure to use that instead for the smoothie (here’s the one I used). Save the ceremonial stuff for hot tea.
Simple Matcha Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1-2 handfuls spinach
- 2 frozen bananas
- 1 tablespoon matcha green tea
- 1 tablespoon matcha green tea
- 1 tablespoon fresh ginger peeled and minced
- 1 tablespoon fresh ginger peeled and minced
- 1 scoop protein powder optional
- 1 scoop protein powder optional
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup water
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until well combined. You’ll know it is complete when you see the beautiful green colour! You can add more water if your blender needs help, or if you prefer your smoothies thinner.
- Pour in a glass and enjoy.
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I haven’t tried green tea in my smoothies yet, but I LOVE green tea and I LOVE smoothies, so why the heck not? This sounds delicious, trying for breakfast tomorrow!!
I love matcha so much…probably because it’s so versatile and doesn’t make me jittery like coffee!
Those are good reasons! I also love how versatile it is.
This looks super yummy and healthy. I can’t wait to try it out for myself!
I hope you love it, Sophie!
I have not yet mixed veggies and fruits in my smoothie. But this doesn’t sound too bad
Love matcha! My family stayed away from smoothies until I snuck in some spinach and kale into one…then realized you really couldn’t taste any of it.
Oh snap, this looks amazing! I have all the ingredients and am SO making this tomorrow morning! Pinning now. Thanks so much for sharing 🙂
Awesome! You’ll have to let me know what you think of it. Enjoy Mary!!
I never heard of matcha before, so this was very interesting. Anyhoo, I’m definitely going to try this in my green smoothies. Thanks for the recipe.
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Delicious and nutritious!
I agree – simpler is better when it comes to smoothies! Yours turned out to be such a pretty green color!
I haven’t tried matcha, but it seems to be in so many recipes. Guess I need to try it, huh? This smoothie looks really tasty. Wish I had one right now.
Love Matcha smoothies!
Okay, I don’t understand this thing with matcha. People seem to be obsessed with it! I was so excited to finally try a matcha latte this summer, and was so sad to discover it tasted like eating grass! Maybe I just got a bad one??
It’s definitely possible to have tried a bad matcha. There are many different qualities out there. The best quality matcha should be vibrant green (sometimes you’ll find brownish coloured ones..), from Japan and not bitter at all. I hope you’ll get a chance to try it again and love it ☺
This looks rather simple to prepare and actually quite delicious! I have been wanting to get into the smoothie thing for some time…this recipe may be easy enough for me to get the ball rolling.
I hope you’ll love it! Simple and delicious are the best kinds of smoothies to start with.
This looks great! Saved this to follow when I make my next smoothie. Thanks.
Enjoy Rebecca!
I’ve been trying to find matcha everyone. Looks like I’ll go through your site and pick me up some. I’m so excited to try.
Oh perfect! I have a post on here with my top 5 matcha brands to recommend. That would be a great place to start. Let me know if you have any questions while matcha shopping!
This smoothie looks delicious. I try to drink a smoothie every day for a light, healthy lunch, so I’m always interested in adding new recipes to the line up. Thanks for sharing.
This smoothie looks and sounds so amazing! LOVE matcha so I definitely can’t wait to try this out! 🙂
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Good idea to put in green tea and protein powder, never thought of that!
This looks so healthy! We got a Magic Bullet for Christmas and I really want to smoothie it up in 2017! Thanks for the recipe.
We got a new blender for Christmas too so it has been inspiring a lot of smoothies lately! Enjoy Andrea ☺