Hi everyone a huge welcome to Steve's kitchen. We're starting off the smoothie
Tuesday series... does anyone remember the old series? comment down below if you can
remember anything you particularly like from that. Anyway the new series is going
to be all about healthy smoothies so for the foreseeable future we're going to be
doing some delicious healthy smoothies every Tuesday on Steve's kitchen. Now
occasionally I will be doing unhealthy smoothies they'll be featured on other
days and towards the end of this video I'm going to give some general tips about
smoothie making but today we're going to be using those beautiful berries the
blueberries and the raspberries the brain food to make this delicious berry
green smoothie so come on let's get going.
So for this berry green smoothie
we're going to be using blueberries I've actually got fresh ones here but I
prefer frozen blueberries they just make a better smoothie. I've got some frozen
raspberries, a nice ripe banana, a couple of tablespoons of oatmeal, that's just to
sort of thicken and add some carbohydrates into there. Now this is
actually a cup of spinach I've piled it up high but if you can imagine, push that
down into the cup .We are going to sweeten it with a little bit of
delicious honey and I'll be using an unsweetened almond milk as our carrier.
Now I've got a ripe banana here, now the riper the better, these are actually
quite sweet so I'm happy with that. Don't need to cut them up, just break them up
into our blender, half a cup of frozen raspberries, half a cup of frozen
blueberries, a couple of tablespoons of oatmeal. Now use the flat oatmeal and in
goes our cup of beautiful soft spinach. Now for sweetener I'm using
honey, you could use agave syrup, I want to keep this fairly healthy and lastly for
our liquid, I've got half a cup of almond milk. Pop the lid on nice and tight. Now I'm
using the green smoothie setting, you just want to turn it on to whatever your
high setting is and off we go.
Now that's really blitz that up beautifully. Now isn't there always a
little bit of honey left in the tablespoon, what I think I might do here
is just take it off with my finger, I want to coat the edge of my glass, so I'm
just going to run that round the edge of the glass. Now I've got some lovely
granola here, just going to dip that in. We'll be covering this in a moment by
the way, just to get that lovely ring around the glass. Now we'll take that
berry green smoothie and we're just going to pour it into the glass, now hopefully
I've done it so there's enough for Michelle and I. Somebody got short
measures there and it ain't going to be me. I'm just going to pop a couple of
blueberries on the top just to further decorate this. Now you might think why
did I edge it with the granola there is some method to my madness because I love it,
I'm like a kid, I love that sort of crummy sweetness around the edge of
my glass. Now I'm going to give this a go and let you know how it tastes Bon
Appétit. oh wow...wow wow wow, the raspberries are really quite tart actually, very very
delicious. They come through quite strong and obviously I've got those blueberries
in there as well, give this a little...I've taken some photographs so it's
set a little firm give this a little bit of a swirl, that is so delicious. So I hope
you're going to enjoy these Steve's kitchen smoothie Tuesday's, we've got
lots planned and it's a good way to get a little bit of healthy goodness into
our lives, after all I've been eating a lot of rich food of late. Now a couple of
tips if you decide that you're going to start making smoothies on a regular
basis, if you want to take a simple fruit smoothie and turn it into a breakfast
smoothie, something a bit more like a meal that will release carbohydrates
into your system throughout the day, just take about half a cup of oatmeal, add it
to your smoothie with some nuts and it will change a simple fruit smoothie into
a most delicious wholesome meal and the other tip if you want to make this
granola for the edge of your glass here's how. Now sometimes I want to dip
the glass in a little bit of fine granola, so I
thought in this first episode I'd show you how we make it and we can refer back
to it if you want to in later episodes. Start with a pan on a medium heat and
we're just going to take half a cup of flat oats and because I like it I've
got quarter of a cup of shredded coconut as well. Just pop that into the pan give
it a little mix through, next take a tablespoon of honey add that into the
pan and then we want to toast these ingredients over. Let the honey coat over
them for a little bit of sweetness and I want to get all the ingredients a nice
toasty Brown. So you can see just after a minute or so we've got this beautiful
gold granola. I want to let this cool down a little bit and then we're just
going to blitz it up to a fine powder. Now when that cools down you've got this
lovely crunchy granola and I'm just going to blitz this up a little bit, I want
a slightly fine granola and we're just going to blitz this a few times until I
get the consistency I want and then when it's as I want it I'm just going to pour it
into a little Tupperware to store it and then you see I can use this over and
over again, dip the glass in, get a lovely little granola edge to the glass when I
want it as you see in this video. So that's about all for this week, I hope
you've enjoyed it, hit that share button, share the love, like the video and I will
see you very shortly, take care. 😎