Smoothie Recipes
Note: Each Recipe provides 2 glasses (2 portions)!
STRAWBERRY AND BANANA LUMPIE
Ingredients:
- 5 strawberries
- 1 medium banana
- ½ cup low fat milk
- 4 tablespoons low fat yoghurt (e.g. Onken Natural Fat Free Yoghurt)
- 1 tablespoon of rolled oats
- 1 tablespoon raisins or muesli (no added sugar!)
What to do:
- Add fruit, yoghurt and milk into blender and whizz until smooth.
- Add the oats, raisins or muesli to the blender.
- Whizz to the desired consistency
PINK GRAPEFRUIT, ORANGE & LIME
Ingredients:
- 2 oranges
- 1 pink grapefruit
- 1 lime
What to do:
- Peel oranges and put in blender.
- Squeeze the juice from the grapefruit & lime into the blender.
- Whizz!
Notes: Ideal as snack! Do not replace breakfast cereal with smoothies.
MELON, KIWI & WHITE GRAPES
Ingredients:
- ½ galia melon
- 2 or 3 handfuls of seedless white grapes
- 2 kiwi fruit
What to do:
- Remove the seeds of melon.
- Place the flesh of melon and the grapes into the blender.
- Cut the kiwi fruit in half and scoop out the flesh into blender.
- Whizz altogether!
AVOCADO, CHILLI & GINGER
Ingredients:
- 1 large apple
- 1 small, fresh chilli
- A thumbnail of fresh ginger
- 150 mls of low fat milk
- 3 tablespoons of low fat yoghurt
- 1 medium avocado
- 1 lime
- 5-6 ice cubes
What to do:
- Cut the apple into wedges and put into blender.
- De-seed and finely chop the chilli.
- Peel and finely grate the ginger and then put the ginger and chilli into the blender.
- Add the milk and yoghurt and whizz once, then spoon the avocado flesh into the blender.
- Squeeze the lime into the blender, whizz it once more and serve over ice!
PINEAPPLE, MANGO & LIME
Ingredients:
- ½ a small pineapple
- 1 small mango
- 1 orange
- 1 lime
What to do:
- Remove the skin from the pineapple and slice the flesh into the blender.
- Peel the mango and slice the flesh into the blender with the pineapple.
- Squeeze the orange and the lime, add the juice to the blender and whizz!
Note: You could use 75ml of bottled, freshly squeezed orange juice instead of squeezing you own oranges!
APPLE, BANANA, PINEAPPLE & LEMON
Ingredients:
- 1 apple
- 1 lemon
- 1 banana
- ¼ pineapple
What to do:
- Cut the apple into wedges and put into blender and whizz!
- Squeeze the lemon and pour the juice into the blender, adding the banana too.
- Remove the skin from the pineapple and slice the flesh into the blender.
- Whizz until smooth! Serve over ice or add 4-5 ice cubes to the blender!
Suitable yoghurts:
Dr. Oetker Onken (Fat Free), Rachel’s Organic Luscious Low Fat, Yeo Valley Organic Fat Free, 0% Fat Yoplait, Danone Vitalinea, Irish Diet Yoghurts, Danone Activia Fat Free.
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