Nobody could accuse me of disliking yoghurt. There were
times in my not too distant past where I (and my accommodating flatmate) would
buy three different types of yoghurt for me to eat. One for breakfast (plain,
large container), one for work (plain, small containers) and for desert after
dinner (flavoured, large container).The same goes for chocolate (although I have never
purposefully bought 3 types of chocolate for 3 different meals I cannot
guarantee I haven’t had it with all those meals).
However, I think chocolate and yoghurt should (for the most
part) stay far away from each other. Especially in smoothies.I have never
quite understood the urge to mix them together and then add a whole heap of
sugar to make up for it.
This divinely chocolatey smoothie (or should it be a frappe,
or milkshake?) satisfies my chocolate
craving and contains no added sugar. I like to add whey protein as I have this
early in the morning when I wake up and it keeps me fuller for longer. The
protein also thickens the milkshake and it ends up nice and creamy as well.
I’ve played around with this over the years and have two
versions: 5.23 am and Top Deck.
Version One (5.23 am)
Serves One
Ingredients
1 ripe banana (this is
important – bananas that are still green will not puree smoothly so you’ll have a weird texture and an
unsweet smoothie)
125mL low fat milk
2 tablespoons Whey
Protein (check that the protein content is >80%), (optional)
1 tablespoons good
quality cocoa (I use Nomu)
1/tsp vanilla extract
Add all the ingredients into a blender.
Blend.
Drink.
(Try not to be late for work)
Version Two (Top Deck)
Serves 2
Ingredients
As above but use 250ml
milk
8 ice cubes, crushed
Add the banana, half the milk, whey powder, cocoa and
vanilla into your blender. Blend as above and pour into two glasses.
Rinse the blender and blend the remaining milk with the ice
cubes.
Pour this carefully into the glasses on top of the chocolate mixture.
Serve with a long spoon for stirring.
