So here's what I did
STEP ONE - Get all you ingredients. You can use any dark green ( collard greens, kale, spinach, bok choy to name a few). I've used all of these successfully in the past. If you are new to the green smoothie world I suggest you start with baby spinach.
STEP TWO - put 1 cup of water, 1 cup of milk (regular or almond) into a blender with 2-3 cups of greens of your choice.I blended these 2 ingredients in my magic bullet for a good 2 minutes to ensure all the small green bits were chopped up. If you have a higher end blender or a "Vitamix" you obviously won't need to blend as long. At this point you could also add chia or flax seeds for extra healthy fats but I get that in my morning smoothie and these were meant for a snack.
STEP THREE - add 2 servings of fruits of your choice into the blender with the greens. I find bananas best because of their delicious flavor but any fruit works. Typically I put 1.5 banana and 1 orange in each smoothie. The picture below of the redish brown smoothie was 1 cup of berries and 1 banana. I also did some that only had banana. Whatever fruit you have around the house and Fortinoes has bananas on for 39 cents a pound right now ;)
STEP FOUR - great suggestion on a blog I found is shown below. Put a zipbloc bag in a glass measuring cup to make servings - I did 1.5 cup servings so I know that I got almost a full cup of greens in every smoothie.
STEP FIVE - End result - success. They say they freeze well - we will see. Take out the night from tbefore so it is able to
Generally I found you could get 3 servings out of each blender.
hey Em...know these are supposed to be great but I just can't seem to get past the green colour to drink...they look yucky but good for you!
ReplyDeleteYou aren't alone there Aunt Jill. Lots of people can't do the green colour. But when you realize how tasty they are and how you can't really taste the greens you may be surprised.:)
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