I had been a crazy maniac of green smoothies when I first discovered them some 5 years ago. For about 2 years I had them for breakfast everyday, rotating my greens and all that. I drunk them though my pregnancy which probably helped as I did not feel noutious even once.
Many people say that green smoothies do not taste good and they tried various mixes without success; hopefully some of my hints will be useful.
There are some key rules that will help you create better tasting smoothies:
- Bananas, prunes, dates, figs, raisins - add as sweeteners. Sometimes one extra date changes everything.
- If you need your smoothie to have less intensive taste add some lemon, cucumber, orange, or ginger
- Typically I don't use milk just water or coconut water but had used homemade nut/seed milk in the past. Various fruit and veggie juices could work very well too. Cows milk?... well it is up to you but I wouldn't.
- Creamy fruits such as avocados, bananas create great green puddings. If you want them in you smoothie use less or compensate with other more watery ingredients.
- You can add oats to your smoothies. Typically I like to soack them in water for at least few hours before adding them to smoothies to ease digestion.
- don't overdo it, the simpler the recipe the better. Keep it down to 3-6 ingredients.
Serves: 2 cups of smoothie
Ingredients:
3 large kale leaves, take stems out
1 whole celery stick
1 Granny Smith apple, take core out
1 banana
1/3 lemon, peel it
1.5 c water
Put all ingredients in the blender. The rule is to put ingredients that are toughest to blend at the bottom. In this case order is: greens, celery, apple, lemon, banana, water. Order is especially important if you do not have a very powerful blenders such as blentec or vitamix.
Enjoy!
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