Beets contain large amounts of vitamins and trace elements. It helps cleanse the body, including the salts of heavy metals. It is proved that this vegetable is effective for the prevention of cancer. It improves the bowels, helps to lose weight. It is difficult to imagine without him the diet of a person who is monitoring his health. Most of the beneficial properties of beets and retains after heat treatment, although in a fresh form all the vegetables still useful. Raw beets are not many people like, it is difficult to find a person who would use it in this form with pleasure. But the way to make it tasty is. Beet smoothies have a harmonious taste, it is pleasant to drink or eat them. Include them in the menu, if you want to clean the blood and lose weight, it would be a good idea.
Cooking Features
Smoothies are a thick cocktail, and if you have a blender, make it easy. However, before you start making beetroot smoothie, it does not hurt to learn about several important points that will facilitate the process and make the result predictable.
- You can prepare a cocktail from boiled or raw beets. The second option is preferable, as a smoothie made from fresh vegetables is more useful. Fresh beets are richer than boiled, a cocktail of it has a more pleasant texture.
- Beetroot is one of the hardest vegetables. So that your blender does not break, and the process of chopping vegetables is not too long, beets must be cut as small as possible and turned into mashed potatoes separately from the other ingredients.
- Sugar and salt are not used for the preparation of dietary smoothies, since they reduce their benefits to nothing: sugar has a high calorific value, salt contributes to fluid retention in the body. If necessary, improve the taste of the drink is better to use spices, herbs, honey.
- If you replace a beetroot smoothie with one of your meals or a snack, it will benefit more from losing weight. To eat a small portion of the cocktail will be easier if you eat it with a small spoon, and not to drink in large sips.
- It is up to you to clean the fruits and vegetables that make up the cocktail. Peeling them, you get a softer texture, but a cocktail of unpeeled fruits will be more efficient to cleanse the body, because there is a lot of fiber in the peel.
The recipes of beet smoothies are so diverse that the technology of their preparation is not always identical. Carefully reading the instructions accompanying the recipe, you get the expected result.
Beet Smoothie with Beet Topper
Composition:
- beets - 0, 3 kg;
- beet tops - 50 g;
- apples - 0, 4 kg;
- water - 0, 25 l;
- honey - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the beets, dry with a towel and peel. Cut into small cubes.
- Place in blender container and grind to puree.
- Peel the apples, cut the seed boxes from them. Cut apple flesh into medium sized pieces and place them to beetroot purée.
- Wash, dry and chop beet tops with a knife. Put it to the rest of the ingredients.
- Turn on the device and chop the apples with beet tops.
- Add honey and water, melted to a liquid state, whisk.
In beet tops, some vitamins are found in greater quantities than in the vegetable itself. Cocktail made according to this recipe is especially useful, but it can be prepared only during the harvest season.
Beet Smoothies with Apples and Carrots
Composition:
- raw beets - 150 g;
- raw carrots - 100 g;
- green apples - 0, 5 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Apples, peeled, cut into slices. Cut off areas of seed.
- Crush apple pulp in a blender and squeeze juice from the resulting mass.
- Wash and peel the vegetables, cut them into small cubes and place them in the blender bowl. Grind to a state of mashed potatoes.
- Fill with apple juice and whisk until a homogeneous composition is obtained.
With this drink you will receive a balanced complex of vitamins and minerals that will save you from vitamin deficiency and anemia.
Beet Smoothie with Pepper and Ginger
Composition:
- Bulgarian pepper - 0, 2 kg;
- raw beets - 150 g;
- spinach - 50 g;
- ginger root - 5 g;
- lemon juice - 2-3 ml;
- red pepper - a pinch;
- ice cubes - to taste;
- cold purified water - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash and peel the beets. Cut into small cubes.
- Wash, shake and chop the spinach with a knife.
- Pepper, rinse, removing the stem and seeds, cut into squares of not too large size.
- Chop ginger.
- Put the beet pieces in the blender bowl, pour them with a small amount of lemon juice and, turning on the unit, grind to puree.
- Add the remaining ingredients and half a glass of water. Beat to get a homogeneous mass.
- If necessary, add more water and whisk again.
- Pour into glasses, on the bottom of which you first need to put a few ice cubes.
Smoothies with pepper and ginger have an unusual taste, it is well invigorating and refreshing, helps to keep the body in good shape.
Beetroot Smoothie with Figs and Asparagus
Composition:
- beets - 0, 5 kg;
- figs - 100 g;
- spinach - 100 g;
- asparagus - 0, 2 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the beets and peel them. Set aside one beet, chop the rest, then turn it into a puree using a blender, squeeze the juice out of the pulp.
- Cut the remaining beets into small cubes and place in a beater.
- Wash the asparagus, blot with a napkin, cut into small pieces.
- Rinse, shake and chop the spinach with a knife.
- Put the spinach to the beets, then send the asparagus to the same place. Crush blender.
- Spoon collect the flesh of ripe figs and place them with the rest of the ingredients.
- Pour the beetroot juice and beat well.
The taste of this cocktail will initially seem unusual to you, but you will quickly get used to it. It is possible that a smoothie made according to this recipe will be one of your favorite desserts. If you want to get a sweeter version, just increase the number of figs.
Beet Smoothie with Celery and Cucumber
Composition:
- beets - 150 g;
- cucumber - 150 g;
- green apples - 0, 5 kg;
- celery stalk - 50 g;
- ginger root - 5 g.
Method of preparation:
- Raw beets, peeled, cut into small cubes, then grind to puree with a blender.
- Wash and dry the cucumber with a napkin. Cutting off his tips and removing the peel with a vegetable peeler, cut the flesh into small pieces of arbitrary shape.
- After washing the celery stalk, dry it and remove the coarse fibers. Cut into small pieces.
- Peel apples, cut seed boxes from them. Cut the flesh into small pieces.
- Add celery, apples and cucumber to ground beets. Turn on the blender and turn the food into a homogeneous mass.
- Scratch and add ginger, whisk with it.
This refreshing cocktail is pleasant to drink in the summer. If you wish, you can add a handful of crushed ice to it and mix it with it to make the cooling effect even more noticeable. This recipe is useful for those who feel the need to restore water-salt balance and the removal of excess fluid from the body.
Beet smoothies are among the most useful products. It has a harmonious taste and helps to use raw beets, which are rarely used in the preparation of any other dishes.
