The best Strawberry smoothie recipe

If you are looking for the perfect strawberry smoothie recipe, you are in the right place! Strawberries are by far my favorite fruit, and so obviously my favorite smoothie would be…. a strawberry smoothie! For years, I have been trying different strawberry smoothie recipes always hoping to make each smoothie better than the last. Finally, I think I’ve found the best. I have not been able to make a better strawberry smoothie than the one I’ve described here. So if you have been looking for the best strawberry smoothie recipe like I was, here it is!

Ingredients

8 strawberries, hulled
1/2 cup skim milk
1/2 cup plain yogurt
3 tablespoons white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 tbsp. lemon juice
6 cubes ice, crushed
1/4 cup premium vanilla ice cream

Instructions

In a blender combine, milk, yogurt, sugar, lemon juice, and vanilla. Toss in the ice.  Blend for just as long as it takes to get a good mixture but while there are still small chunks of ice left (you do not want it to be “smothie-like” just yet.  The problem with other strawberry smoothies is that it tends to have the texture of some sort of meal supplement shake.  This is not good!  This is why we mix the other ingredients of the strawberry smoothie first.  Now, drop your fresh strawberries into the blender.  As a side note, it helps if you cut up you strawberries into 4ths to cut down on blending time, but this is not required.  Once again, start the blender and blend until all of the strawberries are mixed in and blended, but stop before it becomes too blended.  Find the texture and consistency that you like best.

If you’ve done everything right, you should have one rather large glass of an amazing strawberry smoothie!

Suggestions for the perfect strawberry smoothie

Obviously, one of the major factors of any great strawberry smoothie is the freshness and taste of the strawberries that you select.  I would definitely NOT recommend buying a frozen back of strawberries at your local grocery store.  If you have to go to the grocery store, buy only the fresh strawberries found in those little green cage like boxes.  Ideally, try to find a road side fruit stand or local farmers market.  If you are lucky enough to have this luxury in your home town, this will be the perfect way to find the best tasting strawberries.  Finding fresh strawberries is the best way to creating the perfect strawberry smoothie!