Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make a green detox smoothie in a slimming blender? Very fast and simple. First, prepare the necessary ingredients according to the list. Take mineral water without gases or replace it with ordinary drinking water. Spinach can be taken fresh or frozen. Wash and dry the fresh spinach. You can not add honey at all or replace it with a sweetener. Spinach can be supplemented with other herbs to taste. Parsley, basil, dill will do.
Step 2:
Wash the apples, remove the seeds and cut into medium pieces. Apples are better to take sweet and sour, with green skin (Simerinka, Granny Smith varieties are suitable). But you can also choose any other varieties to your liking. The main thing is that the apples are juicy and delicious. You can cut off the skin if it is very hard, I left it. But if you leave apples and cucumbers with the skin, you need to wash them very thoroughly.
Step 3:
Cut the celery stalks into small pieces. If the stems have leaves, you can not remove them.
Step 4:
Wash the cucumbers and cut them into small slices. The skin, if it is not rough, not damaged and not bitter, is not necessary to cut off. But you need to rinse well.
Step 5:
Put the sliced cucumbers, spinach, celery and apples in the blender bowl. Pour in the mineral water.
Step 6:
Grind everything until smooth. Determine the degree of grinding and the density of the finished drink to your taste. If the smoothie seems too thick, you can dilute it with water to the desired consistency and beat everything again.
Step 7:
Add lemon juice and honey to taste and whisk everything again. You can replace honey with a sweetener or add nothing at all. Lemon juice can also be added to taste or not at all.
Step 8:
Pour the smoothie into glasses and serve to the table. Bon appetit!
For cooking, it is better to use filtered or bottled water that is neutral to taste. If you use tap water, keep in mind that it can give the dish an unpleasant characteristic taste.
Since the degree of salinity, sweetness, bitterness, sharpness, acid, burning is individual for everyone, always add spices, spices and seasonings, focusing on your taste! If you put some of the seasonings for the first time, then keep in mind that there are spices that it is especially important not to shift (for example, chili pepper).
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Fresh cucumbers - 15 kcal/100g
- Apples - 47 kcal/100g
- Dried apples - 210 kcal/100g
- Canned apple mousse - 61 kcal/100g
- Honey - 400 kcal/100g
- Spinach - 22 kcal/100g
- Lemon juice - 16 kcal/100g
- Mineral water - 0 kcal/100g
- Celery stalk - 12 kcal/100g