Apple Carrot Kale Smoothie

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Apple Carrot Kale Smoothie

Apple Carrot Kale Smoothie

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  • Yield: two 12 ounce smoothies
  • You're needed for: 2 minutes
  • Until it's done: 4 minutes
  • 4.9 out of 5 based on 16 user ratings
  • Breakfast

A healthy and naturally sweet green smoothie

Apple, Banana, Carrots, Kale,

Ingredients:

  • almond milk - 1 cup (240 mL)
  • kale - 1 cup (65 g)
  • apple (any variety) - 1/2 large with skin
  • carrots - 1/2 cup (65 g) with skin
  • frozen banana - 1 whole peeled
  • ice - 3/4 cup (160 g)
  • OPTIONAL
  • date (for more sweetness) - 1 whole
  • flax, chia, hemp seed, etc - 1 Tbsp. (10 g)

Instructions:

BLEND

  1. Add ingredients in order listed, liquid first, then soft ingredients, then hard, then frozen
  2. Ramp your Vitamix from variable speed 1 to high
  3. Use your tamper to push ingredients into blade (if necessary, it wasn’t for us).
  4. Blend on high for 60-90 seconds until homogenous
  5. Snap a pic and tag #lifeisNOYOKE
  6. Enjoy!

Useful tips for Apple Carrot Kale Smoothie

There’s lots of substitutions you can make here. Some suggestions:

Base: sub almond milk for coconut milk or green tea
Greens: sub kale for spinach or romaine
Texture: sub banana for frozen mango
Sweetener: totally optional, but can sub a date for agave or honey (if not strict vegan)
Seeds: use anything you have on hand, blend in or use for pretty (and healthy) topping

We used a yellow carrot so that the color of the green smoothie remained vibrant and not muddied. Yes, this is important to us because we put pictures of our smoothies all over the internet.

But it should be important to you because we taste with our eyes. If we detect a hint of “brown-ness” that smoothie is going down the drain! (See original pic above.)

Go make yourself (and your family) an Apple Carrot Kale Smoothie and then tomorrow try Carolyne’s Green Smoothie! Another fan favorite 🙂

For useful tips, food photography and the full post, visit:
Lifeisnoyoke.com/apple-carrot-kale-smoothie/