How to make the Perfect Green Smoothie
Ingredients
  • 50g raw cashews or almonds
  • 10g seeds(I usually use chia seeds but love sunflower seeds too)
  • 150g ice cubes
  • 400g chopped fruitalways include at least one frozen banana. Today I used two and added rock melon and watermelon. Yesterday I used one and added a mango
  • 1/2 avocado
  • 1 bunch bok choy and 5 stalks kaleor other greens equivalent – think spinach or silver beet
  • 1 cucumber
  • 200-300g waterdepending how thick you like it
  • 10-20g raw honeyif required – see below
Instructions
  1. Add nuts and seeds of choice, grind on speed 9 for 10 seconds
  2. Add ice and grind on speed 9 for 10 seconds
  3. Scrape down sides of bowl.
  4. Add fruit, leafy greens and cucumber and mix for one minute, speed 9
  5. If you don’t have a Thermomix, then pop all ingredients (you may need to leave out the nuts) in your blender and blend until smooth.
  6. If it isn’t sweet enough for you, then add a dash of honey. This is the secret. Sweeten it so your taste buds ENJOY it! Perhaps the fruit didn’t have enough sweetness, so you’ll need to add a bit of honey. I find that if I add two frozen bananas (I always peel and wrap over-ripe bananas before putting them in the freezer) plus other fruit then it’s sweet enough.
  7. After adding honey (if you choose) add enough water to make it the consistency you like and blend again on speed 9 for one minute.
  8. THEN DRINK THAT BAD BOY!!
Recipe Notes

Optional extras –

Coconut water to replace water
A tablespoon coconut milk
Teaspoon of coconut oil
Experiment with different nuts and seeds. I’ve just found these ones have the mildest flavour and make for a lovely creamy smoothie. Cashews and chia are my favourite.
Don’t use avocado
Use celery instead of cucumber

Let me know your concoctions!

And good luck x