Avocado Date Smoothie 🥑 creamy tahini shake 🇱🇧

Description

Ultra-creamy avocado shake sweetened with soft dates, brightened with lemon, and rounded with tahini—thick, frosty, and spoonable. ❄️

Hook
Soak the dates, chill everything, then blitz until glossy—dessert-level smoothie with zero added sugar. ✨

Ingredients

• 🥑 Ripe avocado: 200 g flesh (1 large / 7 oz)
• 🌰 Pitted Medjool dates (soaked 10 min in hot water, drained): 80–100 g (4–5 pcs / 2.8–3.5 oz)
• 🥛 Cold milk (dairy or almond): 300 ml (1¼ cups / 10 fl oz)
• 🌿 Tahini: 20 g (1 tbsp / 0.7 oz)
• 🍋 Fresh lemon juice: 5–10 ml (1–2 tsp / 0.17–0.34 fl oz)
• 🧂 Pinch of fine salt
• 🧊 Ice cubes: 120 g (1 cup / 4.2 oz)
• ➕ Optional garnish: crushed pistachios & a drizzle of honey or date syrup

Preparation

1. 1️⃣ Prep & chill
2. Soak dates 10 min in hot water; drain well. Keep milk and avocado cold.
3. 2️⃣ Blend
4. Add milk, tahini, lemon juice, salt, soaked dates, and avocado to a blender. Blitz 30–40 sec until smooth. Add ice and blend another 20–30 sec until thick and frosty.
5. 3️⃣ Serve
6. Taste for sweetness/acid. Pour into chilled glasses; finish with crushed pistachios and (optional) a thin drizzle of honey/date syrup.

Total Time

⏱️ Prep: 10 min

🍹 Blending: 1 min

🕒 Total: 11 min

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