This Purple Sweet Potato Smoothie Bowl is so easy to make and requires just 2 ingredients. It's a beautiful lilac colour, a shade very rarely naturally found in the food we eat!
It's perfect for breakfast because the sweet potatoes will charge you with lots of sustainable energy to keep you fuller for longer.
Just cook some sweet potatoes at the weekend, keep them in your freezer in individual portions, then take them out in the morning and you're only one blend away from a delicious and healthy start to the day!
Purple sweet potatoes, or murasaki imo as they're called in Japanese, are often used in Japanese desserts and their taste lends itself to sweet things much better than regular sweet potatoes, as they're much sweeter and their aroma is almost perfume-like.
This Purple Sweet Potato Smoothie Bowl is delicious as it is, but is even better when you scatter delicious toppings over it - think:
- fresh fruit
- desiccated coconut
- coconut flakes
- nuts
- seeds
- dates
- dried fruit
- freeze-dried fruit
- nut butter
Looking for more purple sweet potato recipes? Check out my:
- Purple Sweet Potato Cheesecakes
- Purple Sweet Potato Ice Cream
- Purple Sweet Potato Mochi
- Purple Sweet Potato Milkshake
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Helpful tools to make this Purple Sweet Potato Smoothie Bowl:
food processor
blender
hand-held stick blender
Purple Sweet Potato Smoothie Bowl (Vegan + GF)
Ingredients
- 1 medium-sized purple sweet potato (about 200g/7oz)
- 230 ml (1 cup) unsweetened almond milk (or any other plant-based milk)
- Optional: spoonful of coconut yogurt
To serve (optional):
- Fresh fruit
- Desiccated coconut
- Coconut flakes
- Seeds
- Nuts
Instructions
- Peel the sweet potatoes and cut them into small pieces
- Boil or steam for about 15 minutes, or until soft enough to pierce with a fork
- Drain and mash the sweet potatoes with a fork
- Once cooled, transfer the mash into a freezer-friendly container and place in freezer until completely frozen
- Place the frozen mash into a food processor or blender (or hand-held blender) along with the milk
- Blend until completely smooth, adding more milk if necessary until you achieve your desired consistency
- Serve up and enjoy immediately
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Julie
Made this for breakfast today and it was great - it's really filling and gave me lots of energy!
Rhian Williams
Thank you!
james duncan
I bought a case of purple sweet potatoes last fall. I still have a lot left. Just a plain bake is not cutting it anymore. So glad to find you site with some summer recipes to help use up the rest of them. Very excited to try these.
Rhian Williams
Amazing, thank you so much. Glad you've found the recipes helpful!
Nora Shukovsky
When you use coconut in your recipes, can you offer substitutes so I can use something else. Coconut doesn't agree with my body at all.
Thank you, Nana
Rhian Williams
Yes I do generally offer substitutes in my recipes where I can! For this particular recipe the only coconut required would be the optional coconut yogurt, but you can just leave that out, or swap it with any other type of yogurt that you're okay with. I hope that helps!