Pineapple & Banana Green Smoothie
Now that bananas are starting to come down in price here in Australia I can afford to have them in my green smoothies for breakfast again. Oh bananas how I have missed you! Finally my drinks are creamy again. Prices have been up at around $18kg over the winter as a lot of the crops were damaged in the Queensland floods. Now you can find conventionally grown bananas in the markets for as low as $6kg. Just in time for when your body starts craving more fruit!
Pineapple & Banana Green Smoothie
Sweet Ripe Pineapple*
Ripe Spotty Bananas
Curly Kale, stalks removed
Fresh Mint Leaves
Water
I just filled my blender about 1/3 full of broken up bananas, 1/3 full of cubed pineapple, 1/6 of kale, a few mint leaves and then poured in water to around half way. There are no rules for making green smoothies though. Use less water if you like a thick smoothie or more if you like it juicy. The flavour will depend on the produce you have available and what suits your tastebuds.
Blend in vitamix until ultra smooth
I like to drink my smoothies out of a 1L widemouth mason jar with a glass dharma straw. They’re great for taking a smoothie along to work.
* A ripe pineapple should smell sweet and have quite a yellow skin. Unripe pinapples will give you that tart burning feeling on your tongue if you eat too much, so try to pick a nice ripe pineapple.
Cranberry & Hazelnut Quinoa Salad
Green Ginger Lemonade
Avocado Mandarin Dressing
I can’t wait to try this! I recently made a green smoothie with spinach that was delicious. Experimenting with kale and pineapple sounds incredible!
Funny, that’s exactly what I fixed yesterday only with a lot less water. Delicious! I carried it to a gathering and thank goodness, I had already had a cup full at home because I only got a few tablespoons when everyone finished with it! Even the ones I thought wouldn’t even try it, loved it.
a bit of pineapple can do wonders to a green smoothie. You better hide it next time!