Mango Dragon Fruit Smoothie

Your mango dragon fruit smoothie is a tropical drink in a glass.

It's health boosting and absolutely vegan, dairy-free!

This smoothie is for you if you loved our pure fruit smoothies with mangoes such as the tropical smoothie or the mango pineapple banana smoothie.

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• 🥭 Ingredients
• 🔪 How to make it?
• 🍱 Tips + Storing
• 📖 Recipe
• 💬 Comments

🥭 Ingredients

This smoothie requires 2 main ingredients but it can be enhanced further.

Dragon Fruit

Pick fresh bright colored dragon fruits, which are not too hard nor too soft to the touch.

The fruits on the outside are all pink but the flesh on the inside can be pink or white. These are just 2 main groups, there are many dragon fruit varieties.

White dragon fruits taste super neutral, almost boring.

Pink ones are more flavorful and sweeter than white ones. The sweetest ones seem to be from a yellow variety.

So, as you can see there is lot that we have to learn about this fruit.

The fruit is also known as pitaya or cactus fruit (yep it grows on a cactus!).

Mangoes

There are countless mango varieties in this world and everybody has a favorite.

Pick a variety with less fibers. Most commercially available mangoes don't have fibers.

That said I like a variety that isn't too sweet but bright in color.

If you don't want to add sugar, pick a very sweet mango.

Ingredient variations

You can add some other fruits and ingredients to your smoothies to pep up your routine.

Here are some ideas:

• banana
• papaya
• pineapple
• strawberry
• blueberry
• passion fruit - strained without seeds
• star fruit - aka carambola
• sugar - if you need it sweet
• honey - if you want it sweeter but this smoothie won't be vegan anymore
• stevia - a leaf sweetener
• coconut water - thins down your smoothie

You can go through my list of tropical fruits to get some more ideas.

🔪 How to make it?

The recipe with metric and US measurements is further below in the printable recipe card.

Step 1

Cut the mango. The flattened seed core takes the breadth of the mango, so cut around the core.

Cut both sides off, peel the center line, and cut the mango flesh from the seed core. Also, peel the 2 sides from the fruit flesh.

Step 2

Cut off the top of the dragon fruit and then cut it into two halves.

Spoon out the fruit flesh, leaving the skin behind.

Step 3

Collect mango and dragon fruit pulp in a bowl.

Blend mango and dragon fruit pulp together.

You can add sugar, honey or stevia if you want it to be sweeter.

Serve up cold.

🍱 Tips + Storing

For an extra-thick smoothie, freeze your extracted fruit pulp before turning it into a smoothie.

I didn't need to do this in the pictures, it turned out thick nonetheless. But I keep the fruits fridge cold before turning them into this tropical fruit smoothie.

I recommend enjoying this smoothie fresh, right after the blending process.

You can store it in an airtight container in the fridge for up to one day.

📖 Recipe