Pear Avocado Ginger Kale Smoothie is packed with nutrients for an anti-inflammatory breakfast or snack. Put this healthy green smoothie recipe on repeat!
Chances are, if you’ve been detoxing since Jan 1, you’re either feeling pretty zenful yourself, or you’re crabby patty McGee, tempted to throw elbows at innocent passers by as your body comes down off its holiday sugar high.
Keep at it, my dear. Your place will be a place of zen once it finds balance without carbs. Replace brownies with bananas, alcohol with kombucha, and bread with sweet potatoes <- recipe for success.
We’re on Day 4 of detox drinks on The Roasted Root, and this Pear Avocado Ginger Kale Smoothie is cuh-reamy!
This smoothie came straight from my cookbook, Let Them Eat Kale!. I tweaked the recipe just a tad to make it even more New Years Resolution-friendly. It’s thick and sweet, with a nice little ginger kicker in the back end.
The kale + avocado+ ginger combination gives you a vitamin and antioxidant infusion. Plus, pears?! I always thought pears were best wrapped in bacon, but it turns out, they’re awesome in smoothies, too. If you’re being conscious of calories, do note that this is a high-calorie smoothie, so you can use it as a meal-replacer.
More Healthy Smoothie Recipes:
- Liver Detox Smoothie
- Good Digestion Smoothie
- Tropical Immunity Boosting Smoothie
- Banana Bread Oat Protein Smoothie
- Beet Berry Apple Chia Smoothie
Drink thy green!
Pear Avocado Ginger Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 large ripe pear cored and chopped, Bartlett or Bosc
- 1 ripe banana peeled and frozen
- 1 cup tightly packed kale leaves
- 1/2 ripe avocado peeled
- 1 teaspoons to 2 fresh ginger peeled and grated
- 3 ice cubes
- 3/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
- 1/2 cup plain yogurt*
Instructions
- Add all of the ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth.
Notes
Nutrition
I knew you had to have some fabulous kind of kale smoothie waiting for us…and I was right! Love that the pear adds all sorts of natural sweetness.
You are going to be all smoothed up for the wedding, and I’m going to be over here still munching on my sweet rolls. I need to change this pronto tonto. I’ll start today. Smoothies all the way.
This looks so good!! I seriously want to make a kale smoothie sometime soon!
My husband makes us a kale smoothie every morning and this one’s got all of his favorite flavors. Pinning this for him to make this week!
This sounds wonderful, and it might even enable me to sneak avocado by my husband… 🙂 (I love avocado and he does not.)
Tried this for breakfast this morning, with some added plain protein powder, and it was great – the best-tasting green smoothie I’ve had, and my husband liked it, too. Thanks for a great recipe.
Wahoo!!! So happy to hear you and your hubs enjoyed it! Protein powder is a brilliant addition – I’ll have to do that on my next go-round 😀
I am listening to Mr. Probz Pandora station per suggestion and loving it! Thanks for the tip 🙂 I like your smoothie kick! I might have to do that too…
Yeeeeeeeah! Mr. Probz for.tha.win.!!! Kick ‘er up, sista!
My camera really needs a good cleaning but they told me I had to be without it for two weeks and I had a panic attack. Forget that!
At least it’s forcing you to take a little break and enjoy some good music. I’m going to check out that station! I’ve been listening to the Vance Joy station on Pandora for a while and I love it but it’s about time to try sumpin’ new.
And it’s also about time to try a little pear in my smoothie because this sounds un-freakin’-believable! Ginger and pear are a match made in heaven and imagining that in a creamy smoothie is blowing my mind!
I actually had never tried avocado in a smoothie before this week. Can’t wait to try this version!
Yeeeeah, so happy to hear you’re up for trying an avo smoothie. I’m telling you, this SOB is CREAM-y!
Once you try avocado in a smoothie, you will never go back! It makes it so creamy and provides an excellent source of healthy fats!
Heck yeah! So glad you’re on board with the avo smoothie, Catherine!
Omg. I want to live in a zen place and eat exclusively pear avocado ginger kale smoothie. I’ve been trying to incorporate ginger into err’thang to combat this inflammation, so perfect timing! SLURP.
Take a hike, inflammation! Yup, you’ll love this thingety thang 😉