My disclaimer: I am not an expert on smoothies. I experimented and made this one up to be palatable for me. The first ones I tried from the internet were pretty bad. They were too watery for me and tasted just WAY too green. You'll know what I mean when you taste mine. It's green as all heck but it contains lots of ungreen flavoring. I don't like the brown color that beet greens bring to it (red & green = brown) so I tend to ignore those.
Let's go! Into the blender I pour 2 - 3 cups of spring water, add a small clove of garlic (don't overdo it!), and a teaspoon of bee pollen. When I know I am going to use collards, in particular, I also add about 1/2 cup of grapefruit juice or two hefty starfruit that will counteract any bitterness from the collards. I blend that up on medium speed and then start adding my greens on high speed (whatever you use to crush ice - LOL). I literally keep stuffing my greens in through the whole in the blender cover. In they go, (approximate portions) two large collards leaves with stems removed, a bunch of kale with stems removed, and maybe a small bunch of swiss chard. Other times, I use a whole head of bok choy (like I would add celery if we grew it) and then a little swiss chard. Once the greens are well blended, I like to throw in just a bit of cilantro. I add a few tablespoons of organic peanut butter and a few small frozen bananas and blend until the machine goes back to purring. It's important not to over blend the last two ingredients because you don't want the bananas to warm up from all that mixing. This chilly smoothie fills my blender and I drink the entire thing--straight from the blender--which takes at least half my morning.
So what are your smoothie recommendations?
I put 1.5 cup vanilla soy or almond milk, two handfuls greens ( kale, collard, or turnip, etc.) one organic apple, 2 celery stalks, one organic carrot with top, one frozen banana, handful of frozen peaches or mango, tablespoon of ground flax seeds. Holds me for 4 hours :)
ReplyDeleteThis is one that I want to try because the ingredients seem very well balanced. Thanks JonJInx!
ReplyDeleteWow, they can be so diverse, the beauty of a green smoothy! We like ours to be milk shakey and with lot's of protein so I always add coconut milk and/or raw goat's milk, raw egg yolks only, frozen blueberries and banana, and whatever greens we want to use like mixed salad greens, spinach, Nate's sweet potato greens, Mike Urban's sprouts are all delicious and blend well. When I have star fruit we throw that in too. Sometimes we add almond butter but not often(high in omega 6) and always add a pinch of sea salt no matter what.
ReplyDeleteEm... I'll be trying your version very soon. Found out mine was not high enough in protein which my energy level reflected!
DeleteEm... I'll be trying your version very soon. Found out mine was not high enough in protein which my energy level reflected!
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