Berry Smoothie with Honeysuckle
Fresh, filling, healthy, pretty, and delicious! This berry smoothie with honeysuckle is a thick, rich drink that can stand in for a whole meal. Nectarine is added for extra flavor, and cream gives it its richness and velvety texture.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make a berry smoothie with honeysuckle? Gather the ingredients. For the smoothie, use 10% cream, or you can swap it for regular milk. If the nectarines are very sweet, you can cut back on the sugar or leave it out entirely.
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Step 2:
Sort through the honeysuckle berries, rinse them in water, and dry them on paper towels.
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Step 3:
Wash and dry the nectarines. If you like, you can peel the fruit. Remove the pit. Cut the flesh into small pieces.
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Step 4:
Put the honeysuckle berries in the blender, add the nectarines and sugar.
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Step 5:
Pour in the chilled cream or milk.
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Step 6:
Blend until smooth, 1-2 minutes.
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Step 7:
Pour the finished smoothie into glasses and serve. Enjoy!
- A few interesting facts about honeysuckle: there's a belief that a honeysuckle bush growing next to the house fills it with prosperity, and its inhabitants will never come down with fever. Of all the many kinds of honeysuckle, only some species are edible. There's an old folk rule for telling which honeysuckle berries are edible - one that modern science confirms through numerous studies: you can eat only the blue and black berries, while brightly colored berries, orange or red, are downright poisonous. The edible berries, Kamchatka and Altai varieties, have a distinctive taste. They're eaten fresh and also cooked into all sorts of sweet desserts: preserves, jams, fruit butter, and compotes. Juices and wine are made from honeysuckle berries too, and they're easy to dry and freeze. Edible honeysuckle grows in Siberia, on Sakhalin, and in Kamchatka. Siberian honeysuckle blooms and ripens very early, much earlier than other berries. And the berries taste quite different from one another, from astringent and tart to gently sweet. Honeysuckle honey is also prized as the earliest and especially wholesome kind. The pleasant aroma of the plant is even used in making perfume.
- Instead of sugar, you can use a sweetener.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Buttermilk - 36 kcal/100g
- 20% fat cream - 300 kcal/100g
- 10% fat cream - 120 kcal/100g
- Cream - 300 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Honeysuckle - 30 kcal/100g
- Nectarine - 48 kcal/100g
