Breakfast smoothies
NB: once made, the fruit puree (without the liquid added) can be kept for 48 hours in the fridge or up to 3 months in the freezer.
Ingredients
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Green smoothie
3 kiwi fruit, peeled and roughly chopped
½ green melon, seeds removed, peeled and roughly chopped
150ml/5½fl oz still or sparkling water
Pink smoothie
100g/3½oz strawberries, hulled (or 100g/3½oz raspberries roughly chopped)
1 banana, peeled and roughly chopped
150ml/5½fl oz milk or soya milk
Yellow smoothie
½ mango, stone removed, peeled and roughly chopped
1 papaya, seeds removed, peeled and roughly chopped
Method
1. Place the fruit appropriate to your chosen smoothie into a food processor, and blend to a purée.
2. Add the appropriate liquid ingredient (e.g. the milk or sparkling water) and pour into tall glasses to serve.
3. For an extra treat, add a little low fat yoghurt and garnish with a sprig of mint
Red rooster smoothie
Ingredients
2×125ml fruit-flavoured yoghurt, ideally strawberry, raspberry or cherry
400g/14oz fresh or frozen summer berries
290ml/½ pint cranberry juice
2 bananas, peeled and roughly chopped
Method
1. Place all of the ingredients in a liquidizer and blitz until smooth. Pour into tall glasses and enjoy straight away. If you want your smoothie on the move, pour it into a clean ‘take-away’ coffee cup with a lid and drink it through a straw. If you’re fussy about pips or seeds or you’re worried they’ll get stuck in your teeth, strain the
smoothie through a sieve before pouring into glasses.
Mango, strawberry and banana fruit smoothie
Ingredients
3 strawberries
100g/4oz peeled and chopped mango flesh
1 small or ½ medium banana
1 orange, squeezed
1 passion fruit (optional)
Method
Wash and hull the strawberries and then simply blend all the fruit together
Soup smoothie
Ingredients
1 ripe banana, peeled and roughly chopped
1 large ripe medium mango, peeled and flesh sliced away from stone
½ lime, grated zest and juice only
55ml/2floz orange juice
Method
1. In a blender or liquidiser place the banana, mango, lime juice, zest and orange juice. Blitz until smooth.
2. Serve the banana and mango smoothie in soup style bowls, topped with yoghurt, flapjacks, strawberries, diced mango and flaked almonds
Cranberry goodness smoothie
Ingredients
225g/8oz cranberry juice, chilled
6 medium strawberries, hulls removed and cut into halves
½ banana, cut into quarters
½ cup crushed ice
Method
1. Put all ingredients in a Blender. Blend for a few seconds on high speed or until
ingredients are thoroughly combined.
2. Pour into a large glass.Share and Enjoy, beaides healthy can also
reduce weight.
