How to Make Great Tasting Fruit Smoothies!

The first thing you have got to understand about smoothies it that they are hugely customable, just about any fruit can be used to make one (providing you remove the seeds first), they taste great and are healthy as well.

I would like to note, that you should not put anything with a non-removable skin in your smoothie, but that is only presuming that you would prefer not to spend the next few hours picking grape skin off your teeth!

Before I tell you any actual recipes, I thought it would be good for you to know the basics of smoothie making!

Bananas = Thickeners

Berrys = Flavor and color

Honey, Sugar = Sweetener

Fresh juice = Diluter and Flavor

Milk = Diluter

Peaches, mangos, soft pears, plums, melons, pineapples e.c.t = Flavor

The reason that I bothered to write the 'basics of smoothie making' is so that you can make up your own smoothies without having to have a recipe in front of you! You now know that if you (for example) used 100g of berries and a chopped banana in your smoothie that it would be extremely thick and difficult to drink, but you would also know that you could add some milk or/and fresh juice to dilute it!

Below are a two of my favorite smoothie recipes, enjoy them as they are or change them to suit you:

All of the recipes below serve one person.

Banana and strawberry

1 banana - skinned and chopped

5 strawberrys - with the green bits chopped off

235ml of milk

Put all of the ingredients into the blender and mix until the required consistency

Banana

160ml of milk

2/3 banana - chopped

20ml of honey

1ml of vanilla extract

Put all of the ingredients into the blender and mix until the required consistency

I hope that you will be enjoying smoothies for years to come!