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:

  1. Add fruit, yoghurt and milk into blender and whizz until smooth.
  2. Add the oats, raisins or muesli to the blender.
  3. Whizz to the desired consistency

PINK GRAPEFRUIT, ORANGE & LIME

Ingredients:

  • 2 oranges
  • 1 pink grapefruit
  • 1 lime

What to do:

  1. Peel oranges and put in blender.
  2. Squeeze the juice from the grapefruit & lime into the blender.
  3. 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:

  1. Remove the seeds of melon.
  2. Place the flesh of melon and the grapes into the blender.
  3. Cut the kiwi fruit in half and scoop out the flesh into blender.
  4. 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:

  1. Cut the apple into wedges and put into blender.
  2. De-seed and finely chop the chilli.
  3. Peel and finely grate the ginger and then put the ginger and chilli into the blender.
  4. Add the milk and yoghurt and whizz once, then spoon the avocado flesh into the blender.
  5. 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:

  1. Remove the skin from the pineapple and slice the flesh into the blender.
  2. Peel the mango and slice the flesh into the blender with the pineapple.
  3. 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:

  1. Cut the apple into wedges and put into blender and whizz!
  2. Squeeze the lemon and pour the juice into the blender, adding the banana too.
  3. Remove the skin from the pineapple and slice the flesh into the blender.
  4. 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.