This is a great green smoothie for beginners as the 'green' cholophyll taste isn't quite so obvious. As you start to get used to them you can mix it up a lot and become very experimental and creative with flavours, using different greens and fruit combinations. Try and keep in simple only using fruit, greens and water and for optimal digestion save your smoothie supplements like nuts and superfood additions for other smoothies :)
It is very important to mix up your greens and be sure not to have the same greens everyday - as always variety is best. To begin I suggest trying silverbeet and spinach as these greens don't have an intensely strong flavour.
Always try and use organic greens in these smoothies, and if you are buying organic produce it is best not to wash the greens under chlorinated water as this will kill a lot of the nutrients. Just brush off the dirt with a cloth :)
For more info on green smoothies check out the green smoothie pioneer and her family. They have lots of recipes and I love their 15 green smoothies in 3 minutes clip - Great for some ideas :)
Ingredients
2 cups of firmly packed greens (silverbeet, english spinach, kale, purple kale, curly kale, Asian greens)
1 banana peeled
1 cups of frozen berries of choice
1 orange peeled
approx. 1 cup of chopped watermelon
2 cups of water
Method
Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Makes approx. 4 cups of smoothie.
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This one in the picture doesn't look very 'green' as I used purple curly kale. Was delicious though! :) |
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