That feeling when you can barely walk straight, your body is shaking and the stomach has cramps- does this feeling sound familiar? It's the feeling after an hour of intense strength training work-out and the hunger pangs that ensue after! It's easy to give in to that most natural instinct to dig into something from the pantry. But if you can curb it for an extra 5 minutes, you are sure to be rewarded with this bowl of intense pleasure and health! This sums up the birth of my parfait bowl this morning!
The base is inspired by "Deliciously Ella's" protein shake recipe. Freezing ripe bananas is a fairly recent but consistent habit in my kitchen ever since I discovered how it lends the creaminess to shakes/smoothies sans the richness of some of the dairy products.
Ingredients
Smoothie/shake
1 frozen banana chopped
1 ripe mango
Handful of spinach leaves
3/4 cup unsweetened cold Almond milk
1 tbsp Almond butter
1 tbsp vanilla flavored whey protein powder
2-3 ice cubes
Mix-ins
4 large strawberries
1 tbsp sunflower seeds
1/2 cup good quality muesli or granola
Serves-2
Method
Put all the shake ingredients in a high power blender (I use Breville Boss, my most used kitchen appliance after the stove/microwave!). Pour it into individual bowls and top with the "mix-ins". Enjoy the parfait smoothie/shake bowl right away and feel even better about that work-out you just did!
No comments:
Post a Comment