For this last week of Smoothie-June I am trying to use up some of the ingredients I bought but would not normally have in the house otherwise. Top of the list was the frozen mango chunks; mango is not my favourite fruit.
I found inspiration at Simply Scratch with a pineapple-mango smoothie recipe. At this point though, I’m mostly using recipes for the general idea rather than following them to the letter which means that my variation changed things up. I skipped the vanilla and the honey (I knew this fruit combo would be plenty sweet) and used a whole banana (I hate having half a banana kicking around). Also, since the pineapple I had around was still in the juice from the can, it went in too.
My Pinapple-Mango Smoothie:
1 cup pineapple chunks (canned)
1/2 cup pineapple juice
1 cup mango chunks (frozen)
1 banana
1/4 cup vanilla yogurt
1 Tbsp ground flax seed.
The finished smoothie is a nice bright yellow with little brown flecks of flax and it tastes wonderfully sweet. Tasty enough to convince me to keep mango chunks around!