For the past two years, good mornings in the SiS household have hinged on two drinks. One is coffee. The other is Hanne’s genius invention: The Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie. Yeah, you’ve seen it around, but Hanne came up with it first. It might be SiS’s most unoriginal original recipe, but the other PBBS recipes you’ve seen online are all gross.
SiS’s PBBS is more milkshake than globby smoothie. Don’t worry, it’s all illusion. Frozen bananas only seem to turn into ice cream when blended with milk. It’s a healthy drink. Protein from the peanuts and milk. Calcium… Bananas… they’re good, right? One morning I put leftover whipped cream on top, which was awesome. But I digress…
So first, you’ve got your frozen bananas. Buy lots. Peel them, split them in half and freeze. Second, you’d better use real peanut butter. Don’t make this with the sugary pretend stuff. You need to use the creamy, chunky, pain-in-the-ass natural peanut butter that takes some stirring before use. Sucks, but it’s worth it.
TIP: get as big of a jar of real peanut butter as you can so that you don’t have to do this too often. Spatula the PB out into the bowl of a stand mixer. Use the dough mixing attachment (the curly spike). Once the machine’s done the work for you, spatula the PB back into its jug. Refrigerate it or it’ll separate and you’ll have to mix it again.
So how to? Combine two banana halves, a cup or so of milk, a generous spoonful of peanut butter, a dash of vanilla and blend. Don’t overcomplicate your morning by measuring. If you must, the recipe’s below. Experiment with proportions until you get the taste and consistency you like. The only way to mess this up is to use bad milk (guilty) or accidentally blend a loose blender seal into the drink (again, guilty). Otherwise, this drink is idiot proof.
SiS’s Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie
Serves 1.
Ingredients:
1 frozen ripe banana, halved
1 cup milk
3 tablespoons REAL peanut butter
1-2 teaspoons vanilla
Method:
1. Put stuff in blender and blend.
AND, if you have a blender that blends in the same cup you drink out of, then there’s hardly any mess. Unfortunately, the only product I know that does this is the Magic Bullet. It’s cheap and also built cheap. We’re on our second machine in two years. I had to plug my ears while running the last one, which is why it didn’t make the cut when we moved from Montreal. I hope another company that makes good blenders copies Magic Bullet’s single cup style and I hope that happens before the Tasmanian devil busts out of our appliance. Man dies from Magic Bullet shrapnel?
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October 23, 2008 at 7:18 pm
EB
“Put stuff in blender and blend” … best directions ever.
October 24, 2008 at 3:22 pm
hannehanne
EB–Yeah, Carlo’s keeping it real.
October 24, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Taylor
…then you glup…glup…and exclaim “ahhhhh” while wiping your face!!! This is some wicked stuff.
October 24, 2008 at 10:46 pm
clynch
Totally and thank you.
October 24, 2008 at 11:32 pm
megan
now that is a smoothie with a punch! yum, peanut butter and banana are my favorite!
October 25, 2008 at 12:47 am
Katie
Mmm this is my kind of breakfast!
October 25, 2008 at 11:04 am
Mark Shaw
Don’t forget the part about peeling the bananas before freezing. I did.
I’ve got the second one under running water for a few minutes….
October 25, 2008 at 12:27 pm
hannehanne
megan– it is a great smoothie. After eating it for years, I’m still amazed at how ice-creamy it is. Thank you, bananas!
Katie– I’m with you– filling, healthy, tasty… I love it!
Mark– Good point.
I’m going to add that instruction to the recipe.Oh… I see. It’s there.October 25, 2008 at 2:32 pm
clynch
Hey Mark. The first time I made this I did the same thing. If you freeze the bananas unpeeled, chop them in half, stand them on end and use a chef’s knife to cut off the skin.
October 26, 2008 at 8:51 am
happygrub
the loose blender seal in the drink must have added an interesting dimension. How did you figure out what it was?
October 27, 2008 at 2:32 pm
clynch
I found out the hard way, unfortunately. Only after finding the first sip of my drink oddly chewy did I make the connection to the seeping blender. What can I say? It was very early in the morning.
October 27, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Dana
This looks awesome. I have to make this for breakfast this week.
November 10, 2008 at 9:37 am
Tony
I ended up making this this morning for my walk to work. It’s delicious! Great way to start the morning off with a good tasting breakfast smoothie.
November 10, 2008 at 7:31 pm
hannehanne
Dana– I hope you got the chance to try it out!
Tony– Hey, cool. Glad you liked it. I’ve decided that I’m going to cut my bananas into quarters instead of halves, like Carlo said in the recipe, but it’s good, right? And SO EASY in the morning.
April 18, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Stacy Marie
When you say “REAL” peanut butter, what do you mean? It’s not Skippy or Jif? Please enlighten me.
June 8, 2009 at 4:07 pm
hannehanne
Stacy, “real” means not skippy or jif, yeah. We’ve developed a taste for natural peanut butter, the kind that has nothing but ground-up peanuts in it that has to be kept in the fridge because the oil separates and all that. Tastes miles better, in my opinion.
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