Smoothie Basics: Vanilla Smoothie Recipes

Vanilla and Natural flavor protein powders are easy to drink on their own and simple to use as a base to create your own smoothie flavor. But if you’ve just opened a new tub of Vega® protein powder and aren’t sure what to blend it with, or you’re feeling like you’re in a smoothie rut, we’ve got some simple recommendations for you.

Start with the base recipe and blend it with the flavor pairing suggestions below for the best tasting smoothie recipe.

Smoothie Base Recipe

1 ½ cups liquid (water, juice, plant-based beverage)
1 cup ice and/or frozen fruits
1 serving Vanilla Vega® protein powder

Preparation

Blend liquid and protein powder until smooth
Add ice and/or frozen fruit (plus your flavor pairing choice) and continue blending until smooth
Serve cold

Vega® Protein & Greens Vanilla has a creamy vanilla taste.

Pair with: Berries, banana, cardamom, cherries, chocolate, oats

Try This: Frozen Banana Smoothie

Vega One® is more decadent than your average vanilla.

Pair with: Avocado, coffee, ginger, lemon, fruits, nuts, oats

Try this: A French Vanilla Blended Coffee by blending French Vanilla Vega One with coffee, ice and a plant-based beverage of your choice. Don’t have time for a blender? Make a protein shake in a shaker cup with cold-brew, ice, a plant-based beverage and French Vanilla Vega One.

Vega Sport® Protein Vanilla pairs great with the usual suspects for smoothie ingredients like greens, banana and strawberries and it's a great post-workout drink!

Pair with: Apricots, avocado. beets, berries, cardamom, cloves, coffee, ginger, lemon, maple, most fruits, nuts, oats, tea, and non-dairy yogurt alternatives.

Try this: Try an apricot cardamom yogurt smoothie by blending apricot, cardamom and your favorite non-dairy yogurt alternatives with Vanilla Vega Sport Protein.

Love Vanilla and want to expand your horizons to Chocolate and Berry? We’ve got your Chocolate and Berry bases covered too.