Have you tried green smoothies? They are healthy and refreshing. I love making them for breakfast. The great thing about green smoothies is that you can add a lot of green to your diet without eating salad. I love salads, but sometimes variety is good! I’ve also known a lot of people who don’t like salad who love green smoothies! They’re a treat!
1 lime
coconut milk
1 granny smith apple
baby spinach
yogurt
ice cubes
optional: mint leaves.
Directions: For the green layer, mix 2 cups spinach (2 giant handfuls works), 1/2 cup coconut milk, 4 ice cubes, 1/2 a granny smith apple (chopped) and the juice of 1 lime. Blend together and add to cup. Rinse your blender and then combine 1/4 cup coconut milk, 1/2 cup yogurt (green yogurt or vanilla yogurt work great), 1/2 a granny smith apple (chopped) and 2-5 fresh mint leaves if you like mint! Blend, add to your glass and garnish with an apple slice.
Note: This smoothie is refreshing and a little tart. If you like your smoothies extra sweet, try adding a teaspoon of Truvia to each layer before blending. Spinach is the easiest green to blend in a sweeter smoothie, but if you don’t mind the “green” taste try baby kale next time!
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Ingredients
- 1 lime
- coconut milk
- 1 granny smith apple
- baby spinach
- yogurt
- ice cubes
- mint leaves (optional)
Instructions
- For the green layer mix 2 cups spinach (2 giant handfuls works), 1/2 cup coconut milk, 4 ice cubes, 1/2 a granny smith apple (chopped) and the juice of 1 lime. Blend together and add to cup. Rinse your blender and then combine 1/4 cup coconut milk, 1/2 cup yogurt (green yogurt or vanilla yogurt work great), 1/2 a granny smith apple (chopped) and 2-5 fresh mint leaves if you like mint! Blend, add to your glass and garnish with an apple slice.
Karen- try adding the spinach first next time. That can help them blend better.
Sorry that it didn’t turn out perfectly! I’m not %100 sure what went wrong, but I hope it’s better next time! 🙂 XO- elsie
I made this, it was tasty but it came out really frothy, and sort of separated… Any advice on why this is happening and how to fix it? This doesn’t normally happen with my banana or berry based green smoothies.
Omg…so I was listening to “A Beautiful Mess” by Jason Mraz, and I just so happened to click on this page while looking for pictures of smoothies…and my jaw dropped when I saw the name of the site! I love when these things happen <3
How fancy and coincidental – I just shared my version of a green smoothie earlier this week! I assume your smoothie is for any time of the day, whereas mine is specifically a breakfast one so I took into account how the ingredients should be pro-alkaline since you wake up with an pro-acidic stomach so you need to equalise it or you’ll get tummy issues!
i made my first smoothie last week, and i highly recommend it! i used kale, spinach, ginger, apple, cloudy apple juice and a tiny bit of honey. was incredibly refreshing.
Has anyone actually tried this yet?
This looks great! I usually make protein shakes once a day. I want to try this its so different from what I normally make.
Just made this… Amazing even with a few ingredient changes! Awesome idea!
wow sounds delicious, gonna try that soon 🙂
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I have recently started making smoothies and I do one with cucumbers, spinach, apples, and celery! It’s really good, I’m probably going to try this one too 🙂
Oh holy moley, that looks good! I am trying this tomorrow! Been wanting to make green smoothies and this looks really really good. Thanks for sharing!
~ Hanna
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I am just drinking this smoothie,and it it really delicious!I love how the two layers slowly mix together while drinking
Ok, now I feel bad about eating my egg, bacon bagel this morning .. lol
Monica.
Green apples-check. Spinach-check. Love it all, so I guess I’ll be trying this smoothie!
Because of your awesome recipes, I tried my first green smoothie, with kale, blueberries and banana and it was oh so yummy. I even got the hubby to drink it and he actually liked it, said it was different but good. Thank you much!
This sounds like I would either love it or hate it! But I will def give it a try!
xo
www.leslimarie.com
As a regular juicer and an avid vegetarian gone vegan, just want to say I love that you brought this into the mix. People don’t realize, until they start juicing, how much energy they are going to have! This looks yummy, can’t wait to try it:-)
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This looks brilliant! I usually start the day with muesli, but I have a feeling smoothies are going to be added to my breakfast rotation pretty soon… perhaps with a bit of muesli on top, just for comfort’s sake 😉
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Everyone’s making green smoothies now we’re in January. I’ve never made one before but the green is really tempting 🙂
Love how you’ve presented it for the photos too. Can’t go wrong with a lovely green apple, yum!
Yum! This looks so scrummy. I really really don’t like salad. I like everything that goes in it… but lettuce is just awful. I’m always looking for alternatives!