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Sweet and flavorful pumpkin smoothie made with pumpkin puree, Greek yogurt, pumpkin pie spice, and almond milk. Dust the top of this delicious drink with a bit cinnamon.

All-star, easy-to-follow Pumpkin Smoothie recipe - Perfect for a delicious on-the-go breakfast in the fall! JustOneCookbook.com

Maybe because I was born on Halloween, I love everything pumpkin and I especially look forward to pumpkin pies every fall.

Ever since I bought a NutriBullet, I’ve been making smoothies every day and experimenting with different ingredient and flavors.  As pumpkins are now in season, you have to try this delicious Pumpkin Smoothie!

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Sweet and flavorful smoothie made with pumpkin puree, Greek yogurt, pumpkin pie spice, and almond milk. Garnish with cinnamon.

Customize Your Pumpkin Smoothie

The recipe is very simple but it makes it up with plenty of flavors.  In addition to my regular smoothie ingredients, I’ve added pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spices.  To make my smoothies sweeter, I usually add one banana and I’ve included it for this smoothie recipe as well.  Did I ruin the pumpkin pie flavor with a banana?  Absolutely not (thank goodness!), and you won’t even taste the banana because of the flavorful pumpkin puree and spices.

The best way for me to describe this drink is…. it tastes like pumpkin pie that got transformed into a drink.  If you love pumpkin pie then definitely give this easy smoothie a try.

I added whipped cream and ground cinnamon on top for this recipe, but you can be creative and add your own.  I’ve also tried crumbles of graham crackers and it was amazing as the crackers give nice crunch and different flavor.

How do you enjoy your pumpkin smoothie?

All-star, easy-to-follow Pumpkin Smoothie recipe - Perfect for a delicious on-the-go breakfast in the fall! JustOneCookbook.com

Enjoy Pumpkin Smoothie as a Drink or Dessert!

Mr. JOC was very skeptical about this smoothie as he is not a fan of pumpkin pies or pumpkin dishes in general.  However, he was really impressed with this smoothie after the first sip!  It looks like we found another pumpkin dish to enjoy this fall.

All-star, easy-to-follow Pumpkin Smoothie recipe - Perfect for a delicious on-the-go breakfast in the fall! JustOneCookbook.com

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Serves: 2 cups
Ingredients
  • 1 medium banana
  • ½ cup pumpkin puree (canned or homemade)
  • ¼ cup Greek yogurt (I used non-fat)
  • ½ tsp. pumpkin pie spice*
  • 1-2 Tbsp. maple syrup
  • 1 cup ice cubes (if you don’t use frozen banana)
  • ¾ cup vanilla almond milk**
  • Whipped cream (optional)
  • 1 cinnamon stick (optional)
    Pumpkin Smoothie Ingredients
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Instructions
  1. Put banana, pumpkin puree, Greek yogurt, pumpkin pie spice, ice cubes, and vanilla almond milk in an electric blender/mixer or NutriBullet.
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  2. Blend until all the ingredients are combined and smooth.
    Pumpkin Smoothie 2
  3. Pour into a glass (or 2 small glasses). Add whipped cream and grind cinnamon on top, if desired.
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Notes
*If you don’t have pumpkin pie spice, you can add ¼ tsp. ground cinnamon, ⅛ tsp. ground ginger, pinch of allspice, pinch of nutmeg, and pinch of cloves.

**You can use any kind of milk. If you cannot find vanilla almond milk, you can use regular almond milk and add vanilla (or you don't need to add at all).

I use the NutriBullet to make smoothies.

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Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on October 31, 2014.

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  1. First of all, Happy Birthday, Nami! And congratulations on the anniversary of going to the gym! I know it’s changed my life–I lost 50 pounds!–and now exercising and healthy eating is a life choice that I’ve made. Thank you for sharing delicious and nutritious recipes with us. I’m looking forward to trying this Pumpkin Smoothie. I LOVE Silk Vanilla Almond milk, too! Have a wonderful day!

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    • Hi Donna! Thank you so much for the birthday wishes! Your story is very inspiring! I realized that “dieting” alone didn’t really do anything at my age and exercising was the only option. It took me a while to make it into my regular routine but I did it! I never thought I would go to the gym…or lift weights. LOL. Thank you for making my recipes, Donna! Have a wonderful weekend!

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  4. Hi Nami,
    First of all I too like to wish you very Happy Borthday.
    I love anything with pumpkin. Your pumpkin smoothies look great. I bet it taste fabulous!

    We (Zoe and I and our host for this month Eileen) are running a blog event (Little Thumbs Up) with the theme Pumpkin. I would like to invite you to link your post with us and share your lovely smoothie recipe with us. We have collect more then 500 links . If you are interested to link with us, please link here http://eileenlml.blogspot.com/2014/09/little-thumbs-up-oct-pumpkin.html?
    Thank you and hope you have a enjoyable Birthday 🙂
    mui

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  6. Happy birthday Nami and happy halloween 🙂
    I think this is my first comment haha
    I often visit your web as a silent reader, since some of your cooking may inspired me in preparing my bento
    Thanks a lot!
    Btw, the smoothies look yummy :b

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  7. Happy birthday Nami-san!! And Happy Halloween :)) I really enjoy your blog and look forward to more of your amazing dishes, especially Japanese ones. Thank you and please keep up the good work :))

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  8. This looks amazing, and so perfect for Halloween. I love pumpkin in anything sweet. Thanks for sharing the recipe, and the update on your gym endeavors; both are great inspirations to get fit!

    Also, I hope you have a lovely birthday, and a happy Halloween with your family. Will your kids go trick-or-treating? =)

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    • Thank you for your sweet birthday wishes, Kimmi! Yes, we went to trick or treating and visited classmate’s house for party afterwards. It was a long day! 🙂 Hope you had a nice Halloween too!

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  9. Happy Birthday! And Happy Gym Day. 🙂 Lovely smoothie — I love everything pumpkin. I’m one of the very few that has never tried almond milk — I should, and soon. How can I argue with irresistible taste? 🙂 Good recipe — thanks.

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  11. Happy Birthday Nami and congratulations your wonderful anniversary! I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you for sharing all of the fun and inspiring recipes, information and travel stories on JOC. JOC helped me cook chicken karage for the first time and even now I have some frozen okonomikayis ready to go. Cheers!

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    • Thank you so much for your birthday wishes, and how wonderful to receive a comment from my own dear friend!!! I hope you enjoyed Karaage recipe (if you haven’t tried shio koji karaage, I have to bring you a jar of shio koji… so good!). You’re a wonderful cook already and I feel honored and flattered to hear you read my blog. Thank you Todd! Hope to see you very soon! p.s. I love your Okonomiyaki comment. I remember how much you like it. 🙂 Say hello to your lovely family~~!

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  13. Happy birthday, Nami! Hope you’re spoiled all weekend long and congrats on your anniversary of going to the gym. It’s truly admirable. Thanks for sharing this pumpkin smoothie. I’ve always had pumpkin in the form of pie, cookies or anything baked goodies. This looks amazing and I do love Silk almond milk and nutribullet. Can’t live without them.

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  18. happy birthday!!! and congratulations for such a great lifestyle change. i am little obsessed with pumpkin right now so this is definitely going to happen soon.

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  20. Happy Birthday Nami and congrats on sticking to the gym. I adore this recipe, have some pumpkin puree so trying the smoothie tomorrow for breakfast!

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  23. It’s been a while since I last commented, although I’ve been following the site regularly 😀 I love nut milks in my smoothies, usually I make my own as imported box nut milks are ridiculously expensive. This pumpkin smoothie is indeed interesting, pumpkin puree is not a common ingredient in Malaysia. Pinning this to make some puree and smoothie.

    Nami, have the best birthday ever.

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  26. Happy birthday, Nami! I admire you and salute you for managing to find the time and have the discipline to go to the gym 3 – 5 times per week. That’s a great commitment. I have been thinking of joining a gym for the longest time and finally signed up on your birthday/Halloween! I will be making my debut early next week! xx

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    • Thank you Charlie! And congratulations on signing up the gym membership! I meet my trainer once a week for one hour, and I write down all the exercise routine she teaches me during that one hour and I do the exact same routine for the rest of week. This method has been very helpful. Otherwise I am lost in the gym! I have no idea what to do there without being told. Haha. =P Hope you enjoy your debut this week! Good luck!

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      • That’s a great plan, Nami and I might just copy it! I went to the gym for the first time yesterday and did a pump class. I was so sore in the night I kept waking up. I’m still in bed and I’m fearing that when I do get up, I won’t be able to walk. I can’t believe how sore I am – I do two swim squads a week but it seems swimming only requires a couple of muscles xx

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    • Thank you Hester! I know, I like “walking” in the nature, but I had never been the exercise girl. Going to the gym? It was the last place and thing in my mind. Look how much I have changed in a year! 🙂 Honestly, I prob didn’t make it if I wasn’t meeting my trainer every Mondays. Thank you so much for your kind birthday wishes! xo

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  30. I opened up this post in my reader today and had to make it immediately – or as soon as I’d finished everything else 🙂 I couldn’t get almond milk at my nearest shop so I used coconut milk instead, which was delicious! According to the label this version is lower fat than skim milk, so I am not wasting any time regretting my late-lunch treat!!
    Congratulations on your happy, healthy birthday! And weights are surprisingly fun, aren’t they?

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    • Hi Kate! Thank you for your birthday wishes and wow you already made this! Thanks for trying it out! I use coconut milk sometimes too, but didn’t pay attention which one has lower fat. Thanks for sharing the info with us! And weights… I do it so that I can get skinny (toned) arms! Hee hee!

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  34. Happy belated birthday, Nami! Hope it was a wonderful day. Kudos to you for starting your exercise routine and keeping it up! That is just wonderful!
    I got my husband a pumpkin spice latte and I’m thinking I’d much prefer this smoothie! Great tip on the almond milk. I need to give it more attention.

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    • Thank you for your birthday wishes, Monica! I’m actually surprised that I exercised for a whole year. It didn’t happened in my 36 years of life before the past year. So this was a very interesting lifestyle change. 😀

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  37. Happy Birthday Nami!!! I hope you have a wonderful year ahead. Congrats on making it through one-year at the gym too. That is really very impressive! 🙂 Your smoothie looks like a definite winner. I think I’ll make this over the weekend for all of us. We’re all big fans of pumpkins (and the kids LOVE smoothies!). I hope you had a wonderful Halloween as well and that the kids had a great time. 🙂

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  38. Happy Birthday, Nami! I’m sorry I didn’t see this post on your special, but know that your day was wonderful:) Congratulations on sticking with your commitment to go to the gym on a regular basis! That is an amazing accomplishment and I’m sure you’re feeling healthier this past year because of it. We have recently left cow’s milk behind and replaced it with Almond milk, so I’m really excited about trying your pumpkin smoothies! I have everything needed to make them this afternoon:)

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  41. Congratulations on accomplishing the gym mission! I stopped using gym 2 years ago and got a running machine at home. Really miss the feeling of the gym though. It’s nice to concentrate on the exercise without too much distraction of the TV shows!
    I do like putting soy milk into smoothies and this recipe looks so delicious! Thanks for the tips about making pumpkin spice. I never saw those at local supermarket here.

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  45. ちょとおそいですがお誕生日おめでとうございます。ジムの記念日もおめでとうございます。この美味しいそうパンプキンスムージーは健康的なお祝いですね。Silk Newsletterのご紹介どうもありがとう。登録します。

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  46. Happy Birthday Nami!! Lots of love!!
    I love pumpkin too! I was born in the summer so I need cooling things, fall is my favourite season, not surprisingly there is pumpkin during fall!!
    Did you use canned or home made puree?
    I made this exact smoothie all the time except with vanilla extract and I always home made my almond milk, Sometimes I would blend in vanilla bean and dates. I’ve always used fresh home made pumpkin puree too, and frozen banana. I never made this smoothie just for the sake of it though haha it was always when I had extra puree from making my favourite pumpkin pasta (do you make pumpkin pasta?? I have the best recipe you have to try!!)

    xxx Happy Birthday again! xxx
    Catt xx

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  47. happy birthday Nami, God blessed you all the way through……
    Lovin the pumpkin smoothies all the way!!!

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  50. Hi Nami,

    I haven’t been looking at food blogs for a while and now when I come back, I find you have a book and your own channel! well done to you!

    I am back cooking and writing about food. A corporate job in the world of ecommerce, got in the way – but thankfully, I am back to cooking and writing.

    I thought I will have a quick peep at the blogs I used to follow and I glad I stopped at yours – to find pumpkin smoothie! Had never even heard of it before…may give it a try, though never tried anything like this before.

    Best always,

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  53. Happy Birthday in advance, Nami! 🙂 This is such a wonderful recipe. My hubby doesn’t like anything pumpkin or with pumpkin spices too! But I made a pumpkin roll cake recently and he enjoyed it! I’m going to give this smoothie a try soon. Maybe after all, he doesn’t like pumpkin! 😀 I need a partner (in crime) to enjoy the pumpkin season with me! hehehe…

    Have a great weekend!

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