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Acai Bowl

I first had an Acai Bowl when I was with my family in Hawaii last year.  I had heard about them, saw people raving about them, and I knew I just had to try one.  The verdict? It was amazing. I was never too keen on smoothies for breakfast because I like to feel like I'm eating something and smoothies just didn't quite fill me up.  But THIS.  This was delicious.  It's healthy, filling, and leaves me with energy when I go about my morning.  So when I came here to Japan and saw that some of the restaurants had them, I was pretty excited.  I've had two here and to my disappointment, they were no where near what I had in Hawaii.  They were pretty sweet, almost like an ice-cream.  

That's when I found some little individual drinks in one of the grocery stores.  YES.  I can make my own. So I grabbed a few acai drinks and started experimenting.  First, Arthur and I just poured the drink into the blender with some other ingredients but it wasn't very thick.  Then I decided to pour the drink into an ice cube tray and try to freeze them to give my smoothie bowl more thickness, and IT WORKED.  I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.  If you have any suggestions to make it even better- please comment below and let me know!  

Enjoy!

Ingredients: 
1 Amazoo Acai Smoothie
1 frozen banana
1 cup coconut water (you could use Almond milk as well)
1/2 cup frozen blueberries
1 cup spinach 
1 tbsp chia seeds
1 tbsp honey for topping
1/4 cup granola for topping
1/2 banana for topping

Makes 2 servings. 
1 serving comes out to be about 339 calories. 

Directions: 
Blend together Acai smoothie ice-cubes, 1 banana, 1 cup coconut water, 1/2 cup blueberries and 1 cup spinach.  
Blend until smooth.
Top with 1/2 banana, chia seeds, granola and honey
Enjoy!!


This is what I froze in the ice-cube tray. 




YUM.

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