Simple Green Tasty Smoothie Try it At home
SERVES 2
Best Recipe For Simple Green Smoothie
1½ cups baby kale
1 cup ice
1 ripe banana, peeled and halved crosswise
½ ripe avocado (optional)
¾ cup orange juice
½ cup water, plus extra
as needed
IF YOU DON’T HAVE
baby kale: Use 1½ cups stemmed and chopped mature green kale or baby spinach, or ½ cup frozen kale or frozen spinach.
orange juice: Use unsweetened apple juice.
Why This Combination Work
This is our simplest
vegetable smoothie, and it serves as a clean and green baseline that tastes sweetly vegetal. It’s perfectly balanced, which means it tastes great by itset, but it can also take on other ingredients when you want to shoke things up. For our green base, kale was the obvious choice because it is the king of green smoothies for its nutrient cansty and vegetol toste. When testing juices that we could odd to the tole for some fruitiness, we discovered that both apple and orange juice worked with their mild sweetness and light acid ty but the orange had a more sharp and enticing flavor. Plocing ice neor me bottom of the blender helped add some aeration and coolness to the smoothie, while banana and avocado contributed a beaufully creamy, whipped texture to the drink (as well os coded vitamins. You con omit the avocado; however, the smoothie will be less creamy.
In order listed, add all ingredients to blender and process on low speed until mixture is combined but still coarse in texture, about 10 seconds, scraping down sides of blender jar as needed.
Gradually increase speed to high and process until completely smooth, about 1 minute. Adjust consistency with extra water as needed. Serve.
VARIATIONS
simple mango-pineapple green smoothie
Substitute pineapple juice for orange juice and ½ cup frozen mango chunks for avocado.
simple chocolate-orange green smoothie
Add 2 tablespoons cacao nibs or bittersweet chocolate chips and ¼ teaspoon grated orange zest to blender following avocado.
simple berry green smoothie
Substitute 1 cup frozen strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and/or blueberries for avocado.