Peanut butter lovers, I've got the smoothie for you: a protein-packed Peanut Butter Smoothie without banana that's creamy and simple!
Using a handful ingredients like peanut butter, protein powder, oats, and cottage cheese, this smoothie boasts big protein numbers in just one serving - over 30g protein!
Best things about this smoothie
EASY: Blend and go! Smoothies make a perfect snack or easy meal.
HIGH PROTEIN: With the help of protein powder and cottage cheese, this recipe has over 30g protein per serving!
PERFECT FOR PB LOVERS: With both peanut butter AND peanut butter protein powder, this smoothie has lots of flavor. Too much PB? No such thing.
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Ingredients for this smoothie
As usual for my high protein smoothie recipes, I've kept the ingredients list as pared down as possible.
Smoothies are pretty flexible, so I like keeping things open to variation if you want to change it up a little. Keep scrolling for ideas on variations and ways to make this smoothie fit you!
- PEANUT BUTTER: You need a little peanut butter for a peanut butter smoothie! Doesn't matter if you use smooth or crunchy, as you'll be blending everything anyway.
- PROTEIN POWDER: I use a peanut butter protein powder for this recipe, but if your favorite protein doesn't come in that flavor, grab vanilla!
- COTTAGE CHEESE: When using cottage cheese as a protein source (like in this recipe, where it provides a 10g+ protein boost), I opt for low fat cottage cheese.
Cottage cheese is one of my favorite internet trends; it's so easy to incorporate high protein cottage cheese when it's blended smooth - see Blended Cottage Cheese for ideas beyond this smoothie!
- OATS: Oats provide a bit of bulk here, so don't skip it! If you are looking for a substitute, you can swap it out for a neutral veggie like zucchini or frozen cauliflower.
- MAPLE SYRUP: Just add a lil' bit of sweetness to this peanut butter protein smoothie. I love how maple syrup tastes with peanut butter, but you could substitute honey or your preferred sweetener instead.
My go-to Peanut Butter Protein Powder
As you'll note in the recipe, I use a peanut butter flavored protein powder to get MAX peanut butter flavor in this smoothie.
My go-to: Peanut Butter Equip Prime Protein
It's legit one of my top two flavors of their protein - I love them ALL, but Peanut Butter and Strawberry (currently) have my heart!
If you want to give Equip Prime Protein a try, you can use my affiliate code CHELSEAJOYEATS for 15% off your first order. Quite the deal! I'd recommend grabbing a few flavors to try right away!
That said, you can use whatever protein powder you like for this recipe - if you can't find a Peanut Butter flavor, use vanilla!
Variations for High Protein PB Smoothie
- Add veggies: My favorite way to add a little bulk and a veggie BOOST to smoothies is with a relatively neutral veggie like zucchini or cauliflower. You can use ½ cup of either, fresh or frozen!
- ½ banana: For a "chunky monkey" twist, add ½ a banana to the blender.
- Use a different flavor protein powder: I reached for my favorite Peanut Butter Equip Prime Protein for max peanut butter flavor, but you can always opt for vanilla or sub a different flavor, like chocolate or strawberry.
- Swap out the cottage cheese: Use Greek yogurt. If you've never tried cottage cheese in a smoothie before, though, I highly recommend it! Best dairy source of protein you can get.
- PB&J smoothie: Add a couple tablespoons of your favorite jam (strawberry or blueberry would be my go-tos) to make a peanut butter and jelly variation.
FAQs
Yes! The oats are meant to provide a little substance, but you can swap them out for ½ a banana, ½ cup of zucchini, or ½ cup of frozen cauliflower.
Sure! Swap the maple syrup with honey or your preferred sweetener.
Just note that if you're using something like monk fruit powder, it won't necessarily be a 1:1 substitute.
Swap the cottage cheese for lactose-free cottage cheese or non-dairy yogurt. Otherwise, like suggested above for an oats substitute, use ½ a banana, ½ cup zucchini, or ½ cup cauliflower.
One easy way to bulk up this smoothie: add ice! ½ to 1 cup of ice will help keep the smoothie thick.
You can also use full-fat cottage cheese, which is usually a little less watery so it should provide more bulk.
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Peanut Butter Protein Smoothie without Banana
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 1 serving 1x
- Category: Smoothie
- Method: blended
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Gluten Free
Description
Using a handful ingredients like peanut butter, protein powder, oats, and cottage cheese, this smoothie boasts big protein numbers in just one serving - over 30g protein!
Ingredients
- ¼ cup oats, rolled or steel cut
- 1 ½ tablespoons peanut butter, creamy or crunchy
- ½ scoop peanut butter protein powder (or vanilla, if you don't have PB)
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- ⅓ cup milk (or non-dairy milk of choice)
- ½ cup low fat cottage cheese or Greek yogurt
- ½ cup ice (optional)
Instructions
- Add the oats, peanut butter, peanut butter protein powder, maple syrup, milk, cottage cheese, and (optionally) ice to a high-powered blender. Blend, starting on low and increasing to medium-high, until smooth.
- Pour into a large glass and enjoy immediately!
Notes
Have powdered peanut butter on hand? Swap out the peanut butter with 1 tablespoon powdered peanut butter.
Suzanne says
Very yummy - especially when a very picky 11 yr old could not detect the oats and/or Greek yogurt….yay for this recipe!
Chelsea Joy says
Happy to hear that, Suzanne! Thank you!
Gi says
I love this recipe, it is a great meal.replacement for me at the very least a snack 😃. Can you tell me how many ounces one serving should be to get the accurate nutritional value? Unless I made it incorrectly I am a serving is appropriately 16oz.
Chelsea Joy says
Hi Gi! There should be nutrition information at the bottom of the recipe card. The recipe makes 1 serving as written (although of course you could separate into multiple servings). I currently don't weigh ingredients or measure beverages in fluid ounces; instead I'm basing nutrition info off of each ingredient and adding it up - in this case, since certain ingredients like ice are optional, it would be tough to definitively state what 1 serving is. I hope that's at least somewhat helpful, and I'm sorry I can't be more specific!
Angela Lozito says
Pretty good, but I think too much PB! Ha! Not sure what I expected! I mean it is a peanut butter smoothie lol maybe I put too much PB. 😀
Chelsea Joy says
Hey Angela! Just curious - did you use a peanut butter-flavored protein powder or just the 1 1/2 tablespoons of PB? Which brand of protein powder did you use? Just trying to determine where the overload of PB flavor came from for you!