Classic Winter Smoothie - Oatmeal, Coconut and Cocoa Smoothie

Winter calls for different types of smoothies. Although many fruits are available during the whole year, there there is certain something about having a winter type smoothie and spring/summer type smoothie. In the winter something more on the chocolate side and in the spring something more on the fresh homegrown fruit side. There is just something about chocolate in the winter time. It just goes with a lot of recipes like hot chocolate, chocolate cakes, hot cocoa drinks and whatnot.

Ingredients:

½ cup old-fashioned rolled oats
3 tbsp grated coconut
2 tsp cocoa powder
1 banana
1 ¼ cup water

Yield: 2 smoothies

Preparation:

Peel the banana, tear it into chunks and place them in the blender.

Add rolled oats, cocoa powder, grated coconut and water.

Blend for 1 – 2 minutes.

Serve into two larger glasses.

Preparation time: 5 minutes

The image and the recipe are my creation. The image was taken with my Nikon D-7000.

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