smoothie recipes?

Question

love the taste of smoothies and the added nutritional value but dont like to always have to buy the smoothie packets, could someone provide me with basic smoothie recipes or a site that i can get them at

Answer 1

MELON MAGIC
Fragrant and Fresh

Ingredients:
12 ounces/ 350 gram honeydew melon, peeled, seeded, and cut into chunks
2 kiwifruits, peeled and quartered
4 lychees, peeled and stoned
Extra kiwifruit to garnish

Methods:
Place all the ingredients in the blender and blend until smooth. Pour into a glass and serve chilled, garnished with kiwifruit.


WATERMELON WONDER
Clean and Cooling

Ingredients:
1 pound/450 gram watermelon, peeled, seeded if preferred, and cut into chunks.
1 lime, peeled and halved
1 sprig fresh rosemary, needles only
Ice cubes to serve
1 chunk watermelon and extra rosemary to garnish

Methods:
Place the watermelon, lime, and rosemary in the blender and blend until smooth. Pour into a glass over ice and garnish.


CHERRY DELIGHT
A light and refreshing drink

Ingredients:
1 apple, quartered and cored
1 pear, quartered and cored
1/3 cup cherries, stalks removed and pitted
Ice cubes to serve
Fresh mint sprig to garnish

Methods:
Juice the apple, pear, and cherries together. Pour into a glass over ice. Garnish with a mint sprig.

SUMMER BREEZE
A cooling summer drink

Ingredients:
1 orange, peel removed and quartered
1¼ cups/200 grams black grapes, stalks removed
1 pear, quartered and cored
Ice cubes to serve
Twist of lime to garnish

Methods:
Juice the orange, grapes, and pear together. Pour into a glass over ice. Garnish with a twist of lime.


SUMMER SUNSET
A colorful summer aperitif

Ingredients:
1 pomegranate, cut in half and seeds scooped out
1 orange, peeled and quartered
Crushed ice and serve
2 teaspoons orange flower water

Methods:
Juice the fruits separately. Pour the pomegranate juice into the glass first over crushed ice. Top with the orange juice and stir in the orange flower water.


SUNNY MORNING
Orange-speckled with a creamy flowery taste.

Ingredients:
3 ice cubes
1 pear, peeled, halved, cored, and chopped
3 apricots, halved, pitted, and chopped
1 nectarine, halved, pitted, and chopped
½ cup/100 ml pear juice
Extra apricot and nectarine to garnish

Methods:
Place ice cubes in the blender and whiz, then add the rest of the ingredients and blend until smooth. Pour into a glass and garnish with sliced apricot and nectarine.


PINEAPPLE PLEASURE
Creamy and Fresh

Ingredients:
4 ice cubes
1 pear, peeled, quartered, and cored
¼ medium-size pineapple, peeled, core and eyes removed, and flesh cut into chunks
8 large fresh mint leaves, plus extra to garnish

Methods:
Place the ice cubes in the blender and whizz, then add the rest of the ingredients and blend until smooth. Pour into a glass and garnish with mint.



BREAKFAST BRACER
The perfect morning pick-me-up

Ingredients:
1 pink grapefruit, peeled, seeded, and cut into chunks
1 mango, halved either side of the pit, the flesh scooped out and cut away from the pit
1 banana, peeled and cut into chunks
Ice cubes to serve

Methods:
Place the grapefruit, mango, and banana in the blender and blend until smooth. Pour into a glass over ice.

Answer 2

HERE ARE SOME SMOOTHIE RECIPES:

FRUIT SMOOTHIES

Ingredients
2 8-ounce cartons plain fat-free yogurt
2 ripe small bananas
1 cup sliced fresh strawberries or unsweetened frozen strawberries
1 cup fresh mixed berries, such as raspberries, blueberries, and/or blackberries, or unsweetened frozen mixed berries

Directions
1. In a blender container, combine yogurt, bananas, and berries; cover and puree until nearly smooth. Makes 4 servings.

BANANA-STRAWBERRY SMOOTHIE

Ingredients
2 ripe small bananas
1 cup frozen unsweetened whole strawberries
1 8-ounce carton vanilla low-fat yogurt
3/4 cup milk

Directions
1. Peel bananas. Cut bananas into chunks. Place banana chunks, frozen strawberries, yogurt, and milk into blender a container.

2. Cover blender and blend on high speed about 1 minute or until mixture is smooth. Turn off blender. Pour drink into 2 glasses. If desired, serve with pieces of toast spread with peanut butter. Makes 2 servings.

AND SOME SITES:
http://recipes.bhg.com/recipes/collectionDisplay.jsp?collectionId=/templatedata/bhg/rccollection/data/smoothieRCC.xml

http://recipes.betterrecipes.com/betterrecipes/subcategory.jhtml?catId=200186

http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,how_to_make_smoothie,FF.html

Answer 3

My own smoothie recipe that I developed. It's called "the Spotted Dick Smoothie" because it has bits of blueberry in it (named after the British dessert). If you have a Magic bullet blender, this will work quite nicely. If not, then increase the amount of stuff you put in.

"The Spotted Dick Smoothie"

*A small handful of blueberries
*A small container thingy of applesauce (the stuff in the little plastic cup you put in lunches and stuff)
*A slightly bigger handful of either frozen peaches, frozen mangoes, or a little of both.
*Strawberry lemonade

Put the blueberries at the bottom of the container but not too many because it would darken the color of the smoothie. Add the mango/peach mix, and the applesauce. If you'd like, add a small scoop of whey protein if you are going to work out later. Add the blade thingy and mix...and enjoy :)

SMOOTHIE RECIPE #2

"The Bloody Larry"

*One small handful of blackberries (frozen)
*One small handful of raspberries (also frozen; can substitute for strawberries or blueberries).
*Any kind of juice but cranberry juice or strawberry lemonade works fine.
*A small thingy of applesauce (see other recipe for details).

Combine mixture (add protein or any other vitamin scoops if you'd like) and enjoy! :)

Answer 4

I use frozen fruit, so that I don't have to use ice cubes. Usually a package of mixed berry works great. Orange juice is delicious with berries and sometimes if I have a fresh banana I throw that in. I really like a splash of vanilla soy milk or a small scoop of protein powder.

Answer 5

i love smoothies, and i think they're best without a recipe.

just buy packages of frozen fruit at a regular grocery store. use your favorite fruits, i tend to use strawberries as the main fruit, and add on raspberries, peaches, mangos, and pineapple as i wish. then just use plain orange juice, and blend together.

for a creamier/milkier taste, replace OJ with milk and add bananas as well. you can also use different kinds of fruit juices and Yoplait French Vanilla yogurt is great as well.

experiment with them, and you'll never have the same thing twice! bon appetit!

Answer 6

the basics are fruit, ice, and yougart. and sugar, or whatever else. my fav recipie is involves watermelon, frozen strawberries (no need for ice with this), a touch of lemon juice, and some sugar. branch off of that and experiment with different fruits and such. have fun.

Answer 7

banana smoothie
2-3 bananas
milk
ice
sugar
mix in blender
add sugar to your taste then blend some more and enjoy
you can also add strawberries to it

orange smoothie
oranges
ice
orange juice and blend

Answer 8

2 bananas
lots of strawberries
apple juice


Experiment mixing fruits and vegetables that you like.

Answer 9

some plain yogart
cut up strawberries,
little milk,
ice

Answer 10

Jamba juice?