Welcome to Drinks Tube, I'm Gizzi Erskine I'm gonna' be showing you how to make the
drink that is pretty much on everyone's lips at the moment it's the green smoothie.
I would have this as a mid morning snack, I'd have it with a handful of nuts, probably
almonds because of the protein boost you're gonna' get with it.
It's a really great way of getting loads and loads of nutritional content into your body
just in a drink.
So this is my interpretation of it, we've got this array of lovely green stuff in front
of us I should probably talk us through it.
What you're gonna need is some kiwi fruit, i've put this in the freezer, few handfuls
of fresh kale, we've got some water cress here, we've got some green apples, some pears,
an avocado, and some lemon and then some mint and some parsley.
It's a game of two halves as we're gonna' be juicing some of the stuff and once it's
been juiced we're gonna put the stuff which can't be juiced in here and blend it into
a smoothie.
Now obviously you can just blend it, for me it's a textural thing, I kind of like to have
a it a bit sort of cleaner and purer.
When you just blend it you need to make sure you have a really high powered blender and
blend it for quite a long time so it breaks down all of those bits.
Like kale's quite rough for example so it'll be a bit tougher.
We'll get started, I'm gonna' make the juice first, now the great thing about these modern
juicers is that you can actually pretty much put a whole fruit in there.
The apple stem is really fine I'm not that worried about that but I am gonna' take off
the pear stem.
I am actually gonna' cut these in half.
We're going for four granny smith apples and five pears.
We're also gonna' juice the kale.
The thing that you need to do when you do that is layer it up in between apple and pear
because that's the sort of thing that will get it squashing through the actual machine.
Right here it goes, this is gonna' be interesting.
So now it's about making this juice into a smoothie so I'm gonna' chop up this avocado
if you want to know how to chop up an avocado safely Jamie's actually done a really good
tip, so you just click on here and he'll be able to show you how to do it.
I am just gonna' peel off the outside there and just bung it in.
And then, we are going to put in our frozen kiwi, the reason I put the kiwi in the freezer.
First of all, it makes it less watery, you're not putting ice in there your sort of fruit
is now going the same job as ice, it's keeping the drink nice and cold but also it just thickens
it up, it just makes the whole thing more like a smoothie.
Then, good handful of watercress, I mean watercress is probably the strongest thing we're putting
it bar the herbs but I just think it adds something to it, it just makes it taste really
nice and fresh.
So we've got parsley going in and we've got loads of mint leaves.
The mint adds just you know, it brings the whole thing to life to be honest.
And then you know, don't worry about these being quite strong flavours because the amount
of sweetness we get in here is really gonna' counter balance all of the strong flavours
from here.
So, we're gonna' pour our juice in there.
Last but not least we're gonna put in the juice of a lemon for flavour.
So that's it, lid on and then we're going to blitz that.
Ok, you always need to blend for longer than you think, I think thirty seconds to a minute
is pretty perfect.
Things you smell first of all, sort of appley but minty actually, very fragrant.
Different to a lot of green juices.
I'm gonna' have a go, I mean it's actually so sweet, the juice from the apples is like
I said the sort of thing that brings it all together and makes it really comfortable and
easy to drink.
But you still get highlights of the other flavours you know it has earthyness from the
greens, the avocado, don't really get the flavour pursee, definitely get the texture.
Yeah and it's just I mean it is like the most perfectly balanced green juice.So I mean that's
really great now if you like the idea of this you must also check out Danielle's ultimate
green juice by clicking here.
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