Blue Acai Bowl


This gorgeous bright blue acai bowl recipe is thick, creamy, and tastes deliciously sweet. Kick start your breakfast with this healthy super food acai bowl recipe.



Blue Spirulina acai bowl

The color of this blue acai bowl recipe is out of this world. Watching the blue spirulina blend into the thick ice cream like texture is just mesmerizing. This is one great way to add fruit to your daily diet as blue spirulina acai bowls are packed with super healthy fruits. The combination of fruit and coconut yogurt complement each other perfectly, creating a deliciously creamy dessert like meal. I mean, who wouldn’t want dessert for breakfast.

Three blue thick smoothie bowls

What is an acai bowl?

You may be asking yourself what is an acai bowl and how do I make one. As far as acai bowls go, you can add any fruit and veg combinations together. Add in a little liquid, maybe even a little sweetener such as maple syrup or honey, and that’s your basic acai bowl recipe. I always add in a mix of fresh and frozen fruit to my acai bowls as I love mine thick and creamy. Once you have blended all your ingredients together, simply pour the smoothie into a bowl and top it with some of your favorite toppings. I normally add berries, granola, or slices of fruit, but its your breakfast so you can add your favorite fruits.

How to make a Blue Acai Bowl! Thick, Easy, Healthy! | Acai Bowl Recipe with Spirulina

How many calories are in a acai bowl?

Not only is this homemade acai bowl recipe super quick and easy to make, its only 465 calories per bowl and is really filling and tasty. The calories for this recipe may vary a little depending on the toppings you choose to add. If you are making this for an after workout breakfast and need a few more calories, you increase the protein by adding nuts and seeds to the top.

How to make thick acai bowls?

If you were wondering how to take spirulina, there’s no better way than in a thick fruit smoothie. To make thick smoothie bowls, the more frozen fruit you use, the better. As frozen fruit make a thicker acai bowl. Frozen bananas are a great fruit to add in as they produce a lovely creamy thick ice cream like texture.

Chopped smoothie bowl toppings including dragon fruit, grapes, strawberries, kiwis and limes on a chopping board

What is blue spirulina?

Blue spirulina is a type of algae that grows in lakes, alkaline waterways and is even found in large ponds. Spirulina is naturally a good kind of algae to help improve health for both humans and animals. The blue spirulina gets its bright blue pigment from a protein called phycocyanin and is cultivated and harvested and then made into powders and supplements.

What is spirulina good for?

Spirulina can be found in most health food shops, either in a powder form or as a supplement. When it comes to spirulina nutrition, blue spirulina is rich in protein, vitamins, minerals, carotenoids and may even have antioxidant, pain-relief, anti-inflammatory, and brain-protective properties.
Adding blue spirulina powder to your morning breakfast smoothies or acai bowl recipes is a great and delicious way to add spirulina to your diet.

Tropical green smoothie bowl

Where to buy blue spirulina?

You can buy this smurf-colored blue spirulina powder online at Amazon. Its normally priced around £10 to £18 for about 30 grams of spirulina powder. Each teaspoon of spirulina makes one of these blue frozen acai bowl recipes, so you will get quite a few bowls from each pack.

Acai pronunciation

You may have seen the word “acai” popping up all over the place; the tiny acai fruit are famed for being a super food. So much so, manufacturers seem to be adding spirulina into anything and everything from face creams to smoothie recipes. The word acai is pronounced ah-sah-ee. Most acai bowls don’t actually contain the little dark purple acai berries, but are used as more of a descriptive word towards a super thick smoothie bowl.

Blue Spirulina acai bowl

Blue Acai Bowl

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This healthy blue acai bowl recipe not only looks amazing but is refreshingly sweet and tangy. Finish your acai bowl your way by adding your favorite toppings.
4.9 from 31 votes
Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Course Breakfast, Dessert, Vegan
Cuisine American, Brazilian
Servings 1 people
Calories 465 kcal

Ingredients
 
 

For The Acai Bowl

For The Toppings

Instructions
 

  • To make this thick blue smoothie add your bananas, white grapes, coconut yogurt and blue spirulina into a blender.
    2 Large Bananas, 170 Grams White grapes, 60 Milliliters Coconut yogurt, 1 Teaspoon Blue spirulina powder
    Banana's and grapes in a blender from above
  • Blend your fruity ingredients together until thick and smooth; the texture should be just like a whippy ice cream.
    Blue Spirulina smoothie in a blending in a blender
  • Once your smoothie ingredients are blended, slice your dragon fruit and strawberries.
    0.25 Dragon Fruit, 3 Large Strawberries
    Blue Spirulina smoothie in a bamboo acai bowl
  • Add your fruit toppings to your smoothie bowl, serve, and enjoy.
    2 Tablespoons Blueberries
    Blue Spirulina smoothie in a bamboo acai bowl

Video

How to make a Blue Acai Bowl! Thick, Easy, Healthy! | Acai Bowl Recipe with Spirulina

Notes

Tips & Tricks
I find that a blender with a tamper attachment makes light work creating the perfect thick creamy texture needed for cold acai bowls.
For this recipe I topped the acai bowl with dragon fruit, strawberries, and blueberries, but you can top with any toppings you like.

Nutrition

Calories: 465kcalCarbohydrates: 112gProtein: 8gFat: 3gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 61mgPotassium: 1486mgFiber: 12gSugar: 72gVitamin A: 329IUVitamin C: 88mgCalcium: 128mgIron: 3mg
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4 thoughts on “Blue Acai Bowl

    1. Hi Lene, not all acai bowls contain Acai Berries, acai bowls are a popular term for a type of smoothie bowl with a thicker sorbet like consistency. Like all things these days, names can take on different meanings in different parts of the world.

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