“Date with Fate” Tropical Smoothies
These are not your average Tropical Smoothies. Packed with mango, papaya, coconut, banana, dates, and macadamia nuts; this “Date with Fate” Tropical Smoothies recipe was destined to be on your breakfast table.
Do you believe in fate?
I’m not sure I exactly believe in fate, but I do believe these smoothies were meant-to-be.
Last month the hubs and I were very fortunate to spend some time in Hawaii. The island of Kauai is a lush rain forest with rolling green peaks and waterfalls nearly everywhere you look. Two other things you are sure to find, along every meandering country road, are wild chickens (really) and smoothie shacks.
This particular Fruit Stand/Smoothie Shack was our personal favorite, nestled in the brush along the road going up to the North shore. Every time we stopped here we tested a different variety. That is, until we met DATE WITH FATE.
These rightly named tropical smoothies are loaded with fresh fruit, macadamia nuts and DATES. “Date With Fate” is not your standard super-sweet smoothie recipe. These babies are hearty, with a satisfying complexity that will keep you coming back for more. The roasted macadamia nut flavor and touch of salt, combined with the earthy flavor of the dates and bright tropical fruits, creates something magical. Plus, they are naturally gluten free and dairy free, using coconut milk and rice milk as the base.
My copy-cat version of these tropical smoothies has been a life-saver since we’ve returned home to the cold barren mountains. Every sip of these tropical smoothies takes me right back to that picnic table under the palm trees.
The key here is to cut and freeze all the ingredients a day (or at least a few hours) ahead and to prep enough for several tropical smoothies. This recipe makes 10 large or 12 regular smoothies. You WILL want another one, trust me.
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"Date with Fate" Tropical Smoothies
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Ingredients
- 2 cans lite unsweetened coconut milk 14-ounce cans
- 2 ripe mangoes
- 2 ripe papayas
- 3 bananas
- 1 pound roasted macadamia nuts
- 30 dates
- 10 cups rice milk
Instructions
- Shake the cans of coconut milk to mix. Then pour the coconut milk into two ice cube trays (standard ice cube trays with 16 cubes per tray.) Place in the freezer.
- Cut a small slit in each date and remove the pit. Peel and cut the bananas into chunks the same size as the coconut ice cubes.
- Peel, seed, and chop the mangoes and papayas into chunks the size of the coconut ice cubes.
- Place all items, including the macadamia nuts, into zip bags and place in the freezer, until frozen solid. Keep the rice milk in the fridge.
- For EACH smoothie, place in the blender: 3 coconut milk cubes, 2 mango chunks, 2 papaya chunks, 1 banana chunk, 1/4 cup macadamia nuts, 3 dates, 1 cup rice milk. Puree until smooth and thick.
Loved it! Made mine w just a little more Papaya for the Enzymes and it’s just absolutely delicious! I was born and raised in Hawaii, this makes me miss home!
This is crazy!! So I used to live in Kauai and worked on a farm that was RIGHT behind this smoothie stand! I went to go look for this particular smoothie i love when i lived there, and BOOM! Here is the photo of the stand i always went to! ANNNDDDD this is the exact smoothie that i was looking for, the recipe! HOLY CRAP! What are the chances! Thank you so much!
Delicious!!
Sommer I noticed on the picture of the ingredients you are using an unripe papaya. If you used a ripe one they are so much better. In fact if all the fruit you are using are ripe you will be so much happier for it. Papayas get yellow and soft to the touch and spoon the fruit right out to the skin instead of having a hard time and not getting to the skin. But then again green papayas are used in green papaya salads which are good I hear. Personally though I like my fruit ripe, much sweeter, juicer with full flavor. Easier to get the flesh out and get full enriched vitamins within. The fruit stand you are referring to is Moloa’a Sunrise fruit and juice bar in Anahola by Moloa’a Bay.
I just returned from Kauai where I fatefully stopped by this very fruit stand and fell in love with this very smoothie, prompting several return trips. I’m dairy free, so it was quite the find! I googled recipes for a “date with fate” without too much expectation, but am thrilled to find this! Thank you!
I just got back from Kauai and I miss this fruit stand to much! I was farming just down the road from there….ah- sweetness! In my longing I will make the ‘date with fate’. Thank you!
Lovely….My husband has recently complained that I’m not feeding him enough fruit and vegetables….maybe I’ll do this for his breakfasts!