With peanut butter flavors and good-for-you ingredients, this 5-minute Peanut Butter Acai Bowl is a thick, refreshing, and nourishing breakfast. All you need is a blender and your favorite toppings!
Why you’ll love this recipe!
Not your average smoothie bowl – This breakfast bowl is as amazing as my pumpkin smoothie bowl but is extra tasty thanks to a soft-serve-like base made from frozen acai packets.
Packed with nutrients – Acai berries are considered an Amazonian superfood since they’re packed with antioxidants, fiber, and healthy fats.
5-minute breakfast – Just blend, spoon into a bowl, and serve with your favorite toppings. It’s a quick and easy breakfast you can enjoy year-round!
As a proud millennial, there are certain things I will never give up: Friends marathons, making my own cold brew, and making this tasty Peanut Butter Acai Bowl for breakfast year-round. After all, it’s the best smoothie bowl of all time!
If you’ve never had an acai bowl before, now’s the time to become obsessed. Made from a naturally sweetened mix of frozen acai packets, peanut butter, frozen berries, and milk, it’s just as easy to make as a strawberry banana smoothie but comes with the joy of loading the bowl with toppings. Fresh fruit and a drizzle of peanut butter are my two go-tos, but I’ve included lots of ideas below.
Acai Bowl Ingredients
Acai packet – You can buy these fruity packets (made from acai berry puree) in packs of 4 from the frozen section of some well-stocked grocery stores or at health food stores. I usually get mine from Whole Foods.
Peanut butter – Any kind of peanut butter goes, but I like smooth natural peanut butter. Feel free to use almond butter as a substitute, or swap the nut butter with sunflower seed butter for a nut-free variation.
Fruit – I blended a banana and some frozen mixed berries with the acai and peanut butter.
This list is to provide further clarification on a few of the ingredients. See recipe card below for the full ingredient list.
How to Make an Acai Bowl with Peanut Butter
Step 1: Combine. Add all of the ingredients to a high-powered blender.
Step 2: Blend, then serve. Blend until the mixture is thick and smooth. Scoop the acai smoothie into a bowl and serve with your favorite toppings. Enjoy!
Erin’s Tips and Tricks
- A “perfect” acai bowl is super thick and spoonable, and the key to that is not adding too much liquid to the blender. I recommend starting with 1 tablespoon of milk, then adding up to 2 tablespoons if you need to thin it ever so slightly.
- Use a high-speed or high-powered blender to quickly and easily blend up the frozen fruit.
- If the blended mixture isn’t quite thick enough, blend in an extra 1/4 cup of frozen berries.
My Pro Tip
Serve With Toppings!
This is the fun part! That thick, spoonable, fruity bowl is begging for fun toppings, and the options are truly endless. Here’s what I recommend:
Acai Bowl FAQs
An acai bowl is an extra thick smoothie bowl made from a frozen acai packet, frozen fruit, and milk. A lot of people consider acai berries to be a superfood because they are high in antioxidants, fiber, and healthy fats.
You can, but it wouldn’t really be considered an acai bowl without the acai. Still, if acai isn’t available where you live, go ahead and replace the packet with an extra 1/2 cup of frozen berries.
Storage
I recommend eating the acai bowl as soon as it’s blended. It will loosen as it thaws, and you’ll miss out on its satisfying soft-serve consistency.
Freezer: After blending, spoon the mixture into ice cube trays, freeze until they’re solid, and then transfer the cubes to a large freezer bag. The acai cubes will freeze well for up to 3 months, and you can blend as many cubes as you like with 1 tablespoon of milk when it’s time to eat.
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Add all ingredients to a high power blender and blend on high for 1 minute, scraping down the sides as needed.
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Scoop acai into a bowl, then add desired toppings. Enjoy!
*Calories are per serving and are an estimation
Calories: 399kcal | Carbohydrates: 38g | Protein: 12g | Fat: 25g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 12g | Sodium: 227mg | Potassium: 693mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 19g | Vitamin A: 76IU | Vitamin C: 10mg | Calcium: 47mg | Iron: 1mg
