Smoothies - thick fruit and vegetable cocktails - are becoming increasingly popular for several reasons: they are healthy, tasty, and satisfy hunger well, even if the recipe is selected as non-calorie. If such a drink to replace snacks, you can get rid of extra pounds. The most suitable for the preparation of such desserts are fruits with fleshy pulp, which include mangoes. Mango helps to strengthen the immune system, improve digestion, get rid of heartburn, improve mood. Mango smoothies are thick and sweet enough to do without sugar.
Cooking Features
Mango smoothie is easy to make, but really tasty and healthy, it will turn out if you follow several rules.
- Fruits are useful, and most of them do not have a high energy value, but in large quantities they are also able to have a negative effect on the body. Mango with its excessive use can cause bloating, allergies. The use of large quantities of smoothies, especially if it consists of bananas and other high-calorie fruits, does not help to lose weight, but, on the contrary, can have the opposite effect.
- If you use a smoothie for health, and not just for pleasure, do not include chocolate, ice cream and other non-dietary foods. Give up sugar in favor of honey. If the fruit in the cocktail is sweet in itself, there is no need to sweeten the drink.
- To get enough of one portion of the smoothie, do not drink it in large sips, but eat with a small spoon.
- A smoothie will have a more delicate texture if all fruits and vegetables contained in it are cleaned before chopping.
Recipes for mango smoothies are varied, but different cocktail options are prepared using similar technology. After studying a few recipes, you can come up with their own versions of a fruit cocktail.
Classic Mango Smoothie Recipe
Composition:
- mango - 0, 5 kg;
- unsweetened yogurt - 0, 25 l;
- milk - 150 ml;
- crushed ice (optional) - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash, peel the mango. Cut the fruit, remove the bone.
- Cut the mango pulp into small cubes, put it in the blender bowl, add the milk.
- Turn on the unit, chop the mango to puree.
- Add yogurt. Beat the products to get a thick mass with a uniform consistency.
- Add ice, whisk again.
The smoothies for this recipe are quite substantial to replace not only snacks, but also dinner.
Mango and Banana Smoothies
Composition:
- mango - 0, 7 kg;
- banana - 0, 2 kg;
- low-fat yogurt - 0, 25 l;
- orange or lemon juice - 20 ml;
- Vanillin (optional) - a pinch.
Method of preparation:
- Peel the mango, remove the bone, cut the flesh into cubes.
- Peel the banana, cut into slices.
- From the orange or lemon squeeze the juice, measure the desired amount.
- Fold the fruit pieces into the blender container, add the juice.
- Turn on the device and turn the contents into a puree.
- Add yogurt, whisk until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
- Add vanillin. Beat another 10 seconds.
Smoothies made according to this recipe are more convenient to eat with spoons - it is so thick.
Smoothies with mango and pineapple
Composition:
- mango - 0, 4 kg;
- banana - 150 g;
- pineapple pulp - 0, 3 kg;
- oranges - 0, 3 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the oranges, peel, divide into slices. Free the orange pulp from the stones and films, grind with a blender.
- Cut and peel fresh pineapple. Canned fruits are undesirable to use in order not to increase calorie smoothies.
- Cut the pineapple in small pieces, put in the freezer for 15-20 minutes.
- Peel the mango, cut the flesh into small pieces, chop with a blender. Transfer to the orange puree.
- Peel the banana, chop it finely, put it in the blender container, add the pineapple. Turn on the device, turn its contents into a homogeneous mass.
- Combine all the crushed ingredients, whisk using a mixer or immersion blender.
If you do not want the drink to be cold, do not freeze pineapples. The cocktail will be thinner and softer if you use not the pulp of oranges for its preparation, but squeezed juice from them.
Refreshing Smoothie with Mango and Mint
Composition:
- mango - 0, 7 kg;
- banana - 0, 2 kg;
- water - 100 ml;
- fresh mint - 25 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash, dry mint. Leave a few leaves for decoration, cut the rest and put in the bowl of the blender.
- The mango pulp is cut into small pieces, add to the mint.
- Peel a banana, cut into cubes, add to other foods.
- Fill the fruit with ice water.
- Turn on the unit and turn its contents into a homogeneous mass.
- Pour smoothie into chilled glasses, garnish with mint leaves.
If you want the smoothie to be less thick and high-calorie, you can increase the amount of water or reduce the number of bananas.
Mango & Strawberry Cocktail
Composition:
- mango - 0, 4 kg;
- frozen strawberries - 0, 2 kg;
- coconut milk or low-fat cream - 100 ml;
- honey - 20 ml;
- vanillin - a pinch.
Composition:
- Prepare the mango by peeling and slicing.
- Freeze washed strawberries.
- Melt the honey to a liquid state.
- Fold the fruit pieces and berries into a mixer container, pour in honey, turn it into a smooth mashed potatoes.
- Add coconut milk or cream. If you want to get less calorie smoothie option, replace them with mineral water without gas or skimmed milk.
- Pour in vanillin.
- Beat the contents of the blender bowl.
When serving, smoothies can be decorated with strawberry slices. If you do not follow the diet, you can use whipped cream to decorate.
Mango smoothies are thick and sweet enough even without added sugar. This fruit goes well with bananas, strawberries, kiwi, pineapples, any tropical fruit. This cocktail is a useful dessert, the use of which in moderate quantities does not threaten the figure.
