Avocado and Banana Frosty

August 27, 2014

Now that the kids are back in school, try this healthy, after-school vegan snack made with California Avocados, banana, cocoa powder, coconut oil, and agave.

Avocado and Banana Frosty via LizsHealthyTable.com

My avocado and banana frosty features my favorite super fruit—California avocados—and it’s guaranteed to hit the spot when your kids get off the school bus.

Disclosure: I created this recipe for the California Avocado Commission and was compensated for the recipe and social media outreach. All opinions are solely my own. For more avocado recipes, visit CaliforniaAvocado.com.

 

California Avocado and Banana Frosty
 
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Nutrition Information
  • Serves: 4
  • Serving size: ⅓ cup
  • Calories: 180
  • Fat: 9g
  • Saturated fat: 4g
  • Unsaturated fat: 3.5g
  • Carbohydrates: 28g
  • Sugar: 18g
  • Sodium: 30mg
  • Fiber: 5g
  • Protein: 2g
Recipe type: Snack
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It's hard to believe something as luscious as this frosty is classified as a "snack," instead of a dessert, but given all the great nutrition in every creamy bite, I'm serving it up as an after-school nibble. The avocado in this recipe adds healthy monounsaturated fat as well as vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. To jazz up each bowlful, top with shredded, unsweetened coconut, fresh berries, sliced bananas, or chopped nuts.
Ingredients
  • 1 ripe, fresh California Avocado, peeled, seeded and cut into ¾-in. dice and frozen
  • 1½ ripe bananas, peeled, cut into ½-in. slices and frozen
  • 3 Tbsp. agave nectar
  • 3 Tbsp. cocoa powder
  • 1 Tbsp. virgin coconut oil
  • 2 tsp. lemon juice
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • Pinch salt
Instructions
  1. Remove the avocado and banana from the freezer and thaw slightly, about 20 minutes.
  2. Place the avocado, banana, agave nectar, cocoa powder, coconut oil, lemon juice, vanilla extract and salt in a blender and process for 60 seconds. Stop and scrape down the sides of the bowl. Continue to process until smooth and creamy; the mixture should resemble soft serve ice cream.
  3. Scoop the frosty into bowls and garnish with optional toppings.

 

  12. If we aren’t adding it to our smoothies, I get to make salads that my kiddos actually eat with cashews, dried apricots and of course, avocado!!! Never fails to be a winner.

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  23. Hi Guys. Guacamole is my favorite easiest way to eat avocados. Love it! I t’m going to try your Avocado Banana Frosty. I’m guessing it’s going to become my second favorite way to eat avocados.

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  26. I have had avocado and cocoa pudding before – but had not added a banana to the mix – what a great idea – cannot wait to give this a go!!!

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  31. I love to add avacados to breakfast, lunch and dinner! From toast to eggs to sandwiches and salads. I really love them just sliced with like juice and salt. Heaven!!!

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  32. I love using avocados in guacamole. Then the guacamole can be eaten with chips or as a spread on wraps or sandwiches. Especially with turkey and bacon. 🙂

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  33. I love quickly searing avocado in a pan with sea salt and cinnamon. Nice and crispy on the outside but still creamy and delicious on the inside.

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  50. Love it in a chocolate avocado mousse or in @twopeasandapod’s strawberry kale and avocado salad 🙂

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  54. I love avocados many ways but I especially love chocolate pudding made from avocados. I already follow U on FB!

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  55. I love guacamole with mexican food, chips, crackers, carrot sticks… I add sliced or smashed avocado to sandwiches and wraps. I add chunks of avocado to salads.

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  59. I like to eat them right out of the shell! My mom used to do this and I thought it was so gross! But then I grew up a little . . .

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  60. I add California Avocados to my diet by making avocado/tomato/feta sandwiches. My kids love them, and so does my hubby and I! Thank you for the wonderful giveaway.
    Erin
    fairyfractal at gmail dot com

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  74. When they’re ripe (the waiting is hard!) I serve them with every meal in chunky pieces with sea salt and fresh cracked pepper.

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  79. I use avocados in place of mayonnaise on sandwiches, plus slice them, and mix with red onion and balsamic vinaigrette for a delicious side salad.

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  84. My favorite way to add California Avocados to my diet is by adding them to my sammies…oh and guacamole and adding them to smoothies with a serrano is awesome too! I like to dice them on a salad as well. I just love creamy, rich California Avocados on just about everything! I follow you on pinterest and facebook and totally shared so all my friends can enter too and enjoy all your fun useful information as well! Thank you!

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  85. I always add avocados to my sandwiches and make guacamole for a spread on sandwiches instead of mayo. I have backyard chickens and add avocados to my AM eggs! So good!!! So glad I follow you on facebook! Great recipes!

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  87. My favourite way to use avacados is as a topping to my recipes when I serve the dish. For example on top of chilli, black bean soup or any soup, on top of toast, etc. I also just serve avacado mashed with a squeeze of lime and salt for a quick guacamole 🙂 I already follow MMM on Facebook, Twitter, and faithfully listen to your podcasts 🙂

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  88. As a child I can remember eating avocados sliced in half (with the pit removed of course) with a bit of apple cider vinegar poured in the hole the pit left. Just scoop and eat. I still eat them that way to this day. Love it. I also eat them on sandwiches and in salads. Yummy!!!

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  91. I made your Avacado Orzo Salad yesterday and took it for lunch today! I added a little leftover chicken, as you suggested!

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  96. There are days where I eat avocado with every meal! My favorite way to enjoy California avocados is with breakfast – a few slices with my fried eggs adds healthy fat and sets me up for an energized morning! Great giveaway!

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  118. I just recently discovered that we love avocados. I have been missing out for years! We love them in guacamole, sliced in sandwiches and salads and I even have recently breaded and deep fried them which I know isnt the healthiest but it was good!

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  119. I mash half an avocado with a can of tuna and add diced red onion and black pepper and put this on top of a bed of greens with freshly squeezed lime juice. yum!

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  126. I love baking them in chocolate cakes! They make the cakes wonderfully moist and you would never know they were there. 🙂

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  129. We eat avocados with everything. We put chop them and put them in salsa, on top of eggs, mashed on any sandwich, and sliced on any salad.
    They are so versatile and healthy. I put half an avocado in my smoothies for added creaminess and flavor. I chop avocados to put in my corn, black bean, salsa dip with cilantro and lime juice. I pack guacamole in my kids lunch boxes with baby carrots and sliced cucumbers. Delicious!

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  140. I like them on salads, sandwiches, as filling for deviled eggs, in dips/guac… Really, there is no where avocados don’t work! 🙂

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  151. A breakfast sandwich of a toasted english muffin with an egg fried in a little bit of canola oil, low fat cheese and a delicious avocado. I’m so hungry reading about yummy avocados! 🙂

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  152. My favorite way of adding avocados to my diet is to slice three large avocados, sprinkle them with salt and some smoked paprika, and serve them on a toasted piece of rye bread with smoked salmon. It’s my favorite snack!

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  156. I love avocados in salads – field greens tossed with avocado chunks, cherry tomatoes, and shredded carrots in either an olive oil and lime juice dressing or a little ranch dressing.

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  157. I love to spread avocado on an English muffin for breakfast. Also, chopped up and added to salas! I follow on Pinterest and listen to your podcast, which I love. Thanks for all you do.

    P.s. The app is wonderful!!

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  171. Homemade guacamole. And I’m always proud when we have guacamole somewhere else and my kids whisper to me – yours is better.

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  179. I eat avocado’s any way I can get them. Guac., out of the peel, on turkey sandwich,in lieu of mayo, garnish on just about anything and the list goes on!
    I follow on F.B. & Pinterest too!

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  188. I follow you on Facebook, twitter and Instagram and shared about this on Twitter.

    My favorite way to eat an avocado is with a little salt and pepper sprinkled on it and then using a spoon! Yum!! 🙂

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  192. Instead of salad dressing, I add avocado to my salads. Also love it on my turkey burgers, and in my black bean salad (black beans, corn, cilantro, lime juice, grape tomatoes a bit of cumin – and avocado, of course!).

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  193. smashed on buttered toast with a sprinkle of salt and pepper – and love them on just about ANYTHING else!

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  205. I love it pure style with a soon and a sprinkle of salt, but a great recipe is a few cans of beans, vinegarette, and avacado. Yum!

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  209. Following on Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter. Reposted giveaway on Facebook.

    My favorite way to add avocado is to use it to replace cheese in quesadillas, or the dairy in alfredo sauce!

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  212. I keep trying new avo recipes since my hb and son aren’t big avocado fans. This week I’m trying a pesto w/ avocado on pasta w/ grilled chicken and fresh tomatoes. my personal favorite is a sweet guac w/ cranberries though!

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  213. I love doing a vegan version of Alfredo with my Avocado! you blend up the Avocado with lemon juice/zest, olive oil, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper and put it on your pasta!! SOOOOO creamy! for sure the best Vegan avocado dish out there!

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  237. I agree with Manette above. I love avocado chocolate pudding! I just read also that someone eats them with mashed with jam on toast. Ill have to try it.

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  249. mix a chicken salad with avocado instead of mayo. guacamole on a chrispy corn tortilla topped with shredded chicken with a dollop of sour cream. guacamole with sour cream and a serraño chile sause makes a.great dip.
    why just slice avocados when there’s more to it by mixing it.

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  250. Grilled Chicken pesto Lasagna with Avacado and pico de gailo!
    Roasted pablano peppers & avacado pizza
    Tatziki & avacado hummus
    Tabouleh salad with avacado,cilantro and pignolia nuts!
    My favorite
    Curried rissoto with lump crabmeat and avacado

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  256. My favorite way to add avocado is in it’s simplest, freshest form: cubed and added to salads, couscous, or risotto. But there are many wonderful ways to transform it: mash with goat cheese and herbs for a dip or pasta sauce, grilled, mashed and spread on toast, avocado ice cream, avocado chocolate mousse, and more! Avocado belongs in every meal! 🙂

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  258. For hors d’oeuvres I like to layer a piece of avocado, grape tomato, black olive, cooked bacon and Jack or mozzarella cheese on toothpicks.

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  271. Avocado and banana chocolate pie! Or just smashed on toast with a little salt and pepper, or guacamole or…. Too many ways!

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  274. All time favorite way to eat them is straight out of the rind with salt. I also like my take on a Puerto Rican dish, diced avacado, tomato, and onion with a red wine vinegarette.

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  283. I just started adding avocados to my diet. I slice them on top of salads, I mix them with salsa, I put them on sandwiches instead of mayo, plus I really just love to eat them. Period!

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  285. One is enjoyed twice a day: For breakfast, smashed slightly with a little olive oil and salt spread on a slice of Ezekiel bread. For lunch, eat in chucks with the protein of the day.

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  286. I LOVE avocados!!! I use them to make homemade guacamole, cut in slices and added to my sandwich, chopped up and added to my tossed salad and sometimes just as a snack will a tomato sliced up w/ a dash of salt and pepper.

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  287. Use avocado instead of mayo. Also make a sandwich on. pita bread of hummus, thin sliced red onion and slices of avocado with a. drizzle of balsamic vinegar. It is delicious.

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  290. I’m a vegetarian, so the avocado is a staple “meat” in my diet. Originally from California, and having lived all across the country with a variety of other production locations, I honestly can say that nothing beats a California avocado!

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  294. My true favorite way to eat avocados is freshly cut up w/o any seasoning. I’ll eat the whole avocado–and sometimes two. 🙂

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  297. Simply on toast,
    In a salad of tomatoes, onion and cucumbers and a bit of mayo,
    Guacamole of course,
    right out of the skin…

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  305. I love them in sandwiches or just plain with some pita chips. I have also made your brownie recipe with avocados & it is delicious!

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  306. I make a California Caprese Salad, just by adding sliced avocado to the tomato, mozzarella, basil and olive oil.then a light sprinkling of salt and pepper. (Sometimes I’ll add fresh cooked bacon bits…)

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  307. As Peruvian, one of our favorite sandwiches is the “triple”, sliced avocado, sliced tomato and sliced boil egg on white bread (without the crust), seasoned with salt, pepper and little mayo to secure ingredients to bread slices. Yummy!

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