Healthy Shamrock Shake

By: Krolls Korner

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Updated: 08/20/2019

Healthy Shamrock Shake: A minty start your St. Paddy’s festivities with no food coloring or weird ingredients! This shake puts a healthy and nutritious twist on the traditional Shamrock Shake.

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I wanted to make a more nutrient rich version of McDonald’s Shamrock Shake!

This glorious, minty, green concoction was originally introduced at McDonald’s in 1970 and has been a hit ever since because of its sheer delicious flavor.

You all know I am a smoothie lover, so I wanted to take this traditionally high fat dessert and turn it into something you can enjoy as a nutritious snack or treat.

Ingredients this shake has:

• Milk (can use almond milk, coconut milk, oat milk, etc)
• Avocado
• Baby spinach
• Yogurt (can use a dairy free alternative
• Banana
• Peppermint extract (or can sub fresh mint if you have it!)
• Optional: whip cream and cocoa nibs (can use coconut whip too!)
• Optional: ice (if your bananas aren’t frozen use ice!)

The traditional version of this shake is only available for a limited time at the fast-food chain, but my version is available year-round!

It’s the go to morning shake or a great afternoon pick-me-up.

How to make this shake:

• Grab a blender, and mix all the ingredients together until smooth. Seriously, that’s it.

Is this shake vegan and gluten free?

• You can make it vegan by choosing a dairy free milk, yogurt and whip cream. There are many available in the supermarkets these days!
• Yes, this is gluten free. No wheat, rye or barley involved.
• This smoothie is also Paleo friendly!

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Healthy Shamrock Shake

Prep: 5 minutes mins

Cook: 5 minutes mins

Total: 10 minutes mins

Servings: 2 people

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Start your St. Paddy's festivities the healthful way with this nutrient packed Shamrock Shake!

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Ingredients

• ▢ 1 cup low fat milk or fat-free milk
• ▢ 1/2 avocado
• ▢ 2 large bananas, frozen
• ▢ 2 handfuls fresh baby spinach
• ▢ 1/3 cup yogurt
• ▢ 1/2 tsp. peppermint extract

Optional topping ideas:

• ▢ cocoa nibs, whipped cream

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Instructions 

• Blend all ingredients together and top with whipped cream and cocoa nibs. 

Notes

If you don't have frozen bananas, use regular bananas and add ice. 

Vegan option: dairy free milk (such as oat milk or coconut milk), dairy free yogurt, and coconut whipped cream. 

Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is automatically calculated. It should only be construed as an estimate rather than a guarantee. Ingredients can vary and Kroll's Korner can’t make any guarantees to the accuracy of this information.

© Author: Tawnie Graham of Kroll's Korner

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