Making a healthy and delicious smoothie is easy with a blender, chopped fruit, yogurt, ice cream or milk, and other ingredients like honey, cinnamon, and protein powder. Frozen, fresh, or canned fruit can be used, but some fruits like apples may create lumps. Add crushed ice and blend until smooth, adjusting thickness with more fruit or liquid. Enjoy immediately.
It’s easy to make a healthy and delicious smoothie – the Internet offers many great smoothie recipes. All you need is a blender, mixer or food processor and a few ingredients. You will need crushed ice and chopped fruit as well as yogurt, ice cream or milk. Juice, honey, cinnamon, peanut butter, chocolate syrup, wheat germ and protein powder are other possible additions depending on the particular recipe and your preferences. The specific order of adding ingredients to the blender varies as everyone seems to have their preferred method, but the best tip for making a smoothie that’s actually smooth is to keep checking and blending the ingredients to get nice chunks of ice and fruit mixed.
Frozen, fresh, or canned fruit in any combination works well with a few exceptions. Lighter fruits like peaches are often better on their own in a smoothie as they can be overwhelmed by stronger tasting fruits like blueberries. Apples, even when cut into smaller pieces, tend to create lumps in smoothies, but you may experience these as you gain some practice making the smoothie. Strawberry and banana are a classic fruit smoothie combination, while pineapple and mango are popular fruits for creating a smoothie with a tropical twist. Place the amount of fruit your smoothie recipe calls for in the blender or mixer and blend or blend for about 25 seconds.
At least half a cup (125 mL) of crushed ice should be added to the fruit. The amount of ice you need to make a smoothie will depend in part on whether or not you’re using frozen fruit. Turn on the blender to process the fruit and ice for a few seconds before adding yogurt, ice cream or milk and other ingredients according to the recipe you are using. Process the smoothie again until all the ice chunks and fruit are well blended. When the blender is off, you may want to use a spatula to dislodge any chunks of fruit or ice from the blender blades.
Smoothies should be enjoyed immediately after mixing. If you make a smoothie that ends up being too thin or too thick, these are easy fixes. A little milk or fruit juice can thin the mixture, while adding more pieces of fruit and ice can help thicken.
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