Smoothies - thick cocktails based on fresh fruits, berries and vegetables. Due to their natural composition and soft consistency, they have gained wide popularity throughout the world, including among our compatriots. Such drinks are especially respected by supporters of healthy eating. After all, smoothies help to lose weight, because they do not contain a large number of calories, but at the same time, well satisfy hunger. In addition, they help to saturate the body with vitamins, which is important if you follow a number of diets. Fruit smoothie is the sweetest of this kind of thick cocktails. They are eagerly drunk or eaten even by those who are not accustomed to deny themselves anything, especially when it comes to something tasty.
Cooking Features
Fruit smoothies can be included in the diet as an additional source of vitamins during the period when the body especially needs them. Also, they can replace the snack and “worm the worm”, without risking to spoil the shape. And it can also be served for dessert. However, regardless of the purpose for which you make a fruit smoothie, it will not hurt you to know a few important points. This will allow you to get a delicious and at the same time healthy cocktail.
- Use only high-quality ingredients for fruit smoothies. Prefer fresh or, in extreme cases, frozen berries and fruits. Canned food for this purpose will not work.
- The most pleasant consistency is obtained in a smoothie made from two types of fruit, one of which is juicy and the other has a lot of pulp. The first includes green apples, kiwi, citrus fruits, pineapple, the second - bananas, peaches, apricots, plums, mangoes.
- If you want to make a more liquid smoothie, fruit puree can be diluted with fruit juice or green tea. To increase the density of the cocktail, sour-milk drinks (for example, yogurt), crushed nuts or seeds, oatmeal or buckwheat flakes are added to it.
- A fruit smoothie usually turns out to be sweet on its own, but if it contains mostly sour fruits, then sweets can be sweetened with honey. Sugar, ice cream and even chocolate should not be added, but for one reason only - they will make smoothies more nutritious and less useful.
- One of the characteristics of smoothies is their smooth and delicate texture. For this reason, the fruit for them diligently cleaned. The film is separated from the citrus fruits, the peel is removed from the apples and pears. However, often in the skin contains especially many vitamins and fiber. Therefore, if you are not frightened by pieces of fruit skin in a cocktail, you can leave it.
- Fruit smoothies can also be used as soft drinks. In this case, after mixing all the main ingredients, crushed ice is added to them, and then beaten again with a blender or mixer.
When choosing a fruit smoothie recipe, do not forget that many of the fruits can cause an allergic reaction. Give preference to what is guaranteed to be well tolerated by your body.
Peach and Kiwi Smoothies
Composition:
- peach - 0, 2 kg;
- peach juice - 100 ml;
- watermelon - 150 g;
- Kiwi - 0, 2 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the fruit and pat dry.
- Watermelon pulp, freed from the seeds, cut into small cubes and place in the freezer for half an hour.
- Cut the peach in half, remove the bone.
- Cut the peach into small pieces and place in the blender bowl.
- Peel the kiwi, cut each fruit into several pieces, send them to the peach.
- Pour fruit with peach juice and whisk until smooth.
- Add the frozen watermelon cubes to the fruit sauce and beat again.
A juicy and at the same time thick drink is very refreshing. It is especially pleasant to drink it in the summer during hot weather. However, you can cook it in the winter, replacing the watermelon with frozen raspberries or a similar berry. You can beat the peach, kiwi and watermelon separately, putting them in a glass in layers. Such a serving option will make the cocktail even more attractive.
Citrus Smoothie
Composition:
- orange - 150 g;
- tangerines - 150 g;
- grapefruit - 150 g;
- yogurt or ice cream - 100 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash fruit. Blot them with a kitchen towel.
- Peel tangerines and divide into slices. Peel them off the films and place them in the blender bowl.
- Cut the orange and grapefruit in half. Squeeze the juice out of an orange and half a grapefruit using a special citrus juicer.
- Fill the tangerine slices with juice and blend with a blender.
- Add ice cream or yogurt to the citrus mix. With ice cream smoothies will be tastier, with yogurt - healthier, so choose what you prefer.
- Beat the fruit with yogurt (or ice cream).
Exquisite fruit dessert prepared according to this recipe is unlikely to leave anyone indifferent.
Pineapple Smoothie
Composition:
- pineapple pulp - 0, 2 kg;
- oranges - 0, 35 kg;
- celery (stem) - 100 g;
- water - 100 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Separate the pineapple pulp from the peel. Make sure that her pieces do not fall into a smoothie, as it can cause irritation.
- Cut the pineapple pulp into cubes and place it in the blender bowl.
- Wash celery stalks, remove coarse fibers. Cut the stalks into small pieces and send to the pineapple.
- Wash the oranges, dry them with a napkin and cut them in half. Squeeze the juice out of them using a citrus juicer.
- Fill the contents of the blender bowl with orange juice, pour in some ice water.
- Grind pineapple and celery, turning the contents of the blender bowl into a homogeneous mass.
The recipe for this smoothie will appeal to those who want to lose weight, because it helps to burn excess fat. To enhance the effect of a cocktail, you can add a teaspoon of grated ginger.
Apple-Banana Smoothie
Composition:
- banana - 0, 2 kg;
- green apple - 0, 2 kg;
- celery - 100 g;
- fresh spinach - 50 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the apple, blot it with a napkin and peel it off. Cut the core.
- Apple pulp cut into small cubes.
- Finely chop the spinach with a knife.
- Cut and dry the washed and dried celery.
- Peel a large banana (or two small ones), cut into slices.
- Place all ingredients in a whisking container and blend with a blender until smooth.
Do not be concerned about the inclusion of spinach and celery in the fruit smoothie, they do not introduce an imbalance in its composition. On the contrary, the taste and aroma of the cocktail are very fresh and harmonious. In addition, with them, apple-banana dessert is obtained more useful.
Banana Smoothie
Composition:
- bananas - 0, 3 kg;
- kefir - 0, 2 l;
- honey - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the banana pulp into slices.
- Add a spoonful of honey.
- Pour kefir.
- Beat up to a smooth consistency.
Of all the recipes for smoothies, this one is the most famous and simple. The taste of his love and adults, and children. This option is a thick cocktail is well suited for a snack.
Multifruit Smoothie
Composition:
- grapefruit - 150 g;
- Kiwi - 50 g;
- apple - 0, 2 kg;
- banana - 50 g;
- ginger root - 5 g;
- honey - 10 ml;
- green tea - 0, 2 l.
Method of preparation:
- Brew green tea.
- Add grated ginger and honey to it, stir.
- After half an hour, strain the tea and put it in the fridge to make it as cold as possible.
- Wash and clean the fruit.
- Apple, kiwi and banana cut into large cubes.
- Squeeze the juice out of the grapefruit using a citrus juicer.
- Place the fruit in the blender bowl, pour grapefruit juice and iced tea. Whisk.
The resulting smoothie quenches thirst well, nourishes the body with vitamins and promotes weight loss.
When making a fruit smoothie, each housewife can show her imagination by inventing her own recipes. After all, most fruits and berries go well together.
