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A smoothie is everything with fruits—from tasty to creamy to nutritious to healthy and delicious smoothie recipes. Making a smoothie at home is so simple as long as you have the right fruits and ingredients. Once you know how to, you’re stuck with it!
A smoothie is a thick, smooth blend of fresh fruits with milk and/or yogurt. Smoothies are nutritious and fortified with fiber, nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and flavor.
Now that you know what a smoothie is, let’s tell you how to make and blend up a smoothie.
The basic ingredients for making smoothies are fruits, something creamy, and a liquid. Sometimes, vegetables are incorporated as extras, but they are always optional.
Fruits could be bananas, mangoes, strawberries, or any of your choice, either fresh fruits or frozen fruits. Fresh fruits give a smooth smoothie, while frozen give it a bit rough appearance.
This involves adding yogurt to it to improve the texture of the smoothie. You could use plain yogurt or Greek yoghurt.
This is the incorporation of either water or milk. Milk is my go-to as it has nutrients and richness for this healthy, delicious smoothie recipe.
This could be whole milk or coconut milk, as it gives vitamins, calcium, and protein. Milk also helps to thin out purée and makes it easier to blend to the right consistency.
I hope that with this, you’re beginning to have an idea of what constitutes healthy, delicious smoothie recipes. In making a smoothie, we start by layering our ingredients, from fruits to cream to liquid.
These are what make smoothies healthy, as the vegetables are extremely fortified with nutritional benefits. Vegetables are optional, though. The vegetables may be kale, spinach, cucumbers, ginger, or cinnamon.
Sometimes, seeds are also added to give it a nutty taste while also carrying nutritional value. Such seeds may include chia seeds and hemp seeds.
For extra sweetness, you can add honey or maple syrup. Now, I’ll be sharing with you different kinds of smoothie recipes.
Let’s get blending!
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Cucumber
Mint
Apples
Honey
Avocado
STEP 1: Wash your fruits and vegetables properly in a bowl with running water.
STEP 2: Chop/dice your fruits.
STEP 3: Wash your blender before use.
STEP 4: In your blender, add diced cucumbers apples, and chopped mints.
STEP 5: For coldness, add ice or place it in the refrigerator after blending.
STEP 6: Add honey and avocado to the blender and give this a blend.
STEP 7: You’ll get a green-looking healthy purée.
Your healthy, delicious smoothie recipes of cucumber, apple, and mint are ready.
Iced coffee
Milk
Chocolate chips
Coffee beans
STEP 1: In a blender, add iced coffee cubes.
STEP 2: Add whole milk, chocolate chips, and coffee beans.
STEP 3: Give this a blend.
STEP 4: Serve this in a glass and top this with whipped cream.
Your chocolate smoothie is ready.
Milk
Yoghurt
Strawberries
Banana
STEP 1: Wash your fruits properly in running water.
STEP 3: In the blender, add the fruits and sliced/diced banana.
STEP 4: Pour in the milk.
STEP 5: Pour in plain or Greek yoghurt.
STEP 6: Give this a blend.
Your healthy delicious smoothie recipes are ready.
Oranges
Mangoes
Carrots
Milk
Procedures
STEP 1: Wash all your fruits and dice them.
STEP 2: Add the oranges, mangoes, and carrots to the blender.
STEP 3: Pour in milk and give this a blend.
Your orange carrots smoothie is ready!
Strawberries
Blackberry
Raspberry
Broccoli
Milk
STEP 1: Wash all the berries properly.
STEP 2: In the blender, add in fruits and broccoli.
STEP 3: Pour in milk and give this a blend.
Your berries and broccoli smoothie are ready to be enjoyed.
Smoothies are healthy as they are extremely fortified with vitamins and minerals. Simply blending pineapple, bananas, watermelon, and yoghurt is promised to enrich you with there are nutrients such as calcium, proteins, etc.
Simply store and preserve the blended smoothies in the refrigerator as this is guaranteed to still be of quality for 2-3 days. Store in a container with airtight covers.
Ta-da! I hope you had fun blending up these healthy delicious smoothie recipes just as much as I did writing them. I’m not a fan of vegetables in my smoothie, I like something and anything sweet so I mostly go for fruits, yoghurt, and milk. It still gives the same nutrients but not as much as vegetables do.
Comment below if you tried any of the recipes or if you think I missed any. If you enjoyed this, check out three other different ways of making lemonade I bet you didn’t know about.
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I’m already craving for strawberry banana yogurt smoothie 🤤
Let’s get blending Alex!