Fruits and berries contain large amounts of vitamins and other healthy ingredients. They have a pleasant sweet-sour taste, but their energy value is low. Fruit and berry desserts are preferable for those who care about their health. Each fruit has unique organoleptic qualities, and dishes based on them are also different. It is worth at least once to try a plum smoothie, made according to one of the popular recipes, and this thick cocktail will take a firm place in your diet.
Cooking Features
Plum smoothies are prepared with the addition of various berries and fruits, based on fruit juice or sour milk drinks. The composition of the cocktail leaves an imprint on the technology of its preparation, but still you can make some general recommendations.
- As part of a cocktail, it is desirable to combine sour and sweet fruits and berries, then its taste will be balanced.
- To obtain an optimal consistency, it is desirable to combine juicy products with those that have a dense and fibrous structure.
- You can thicken a smoothie by adding a little oatmeal or buckwheat flakes soaked in kefir or fruit juice. A good addition to serve and cottage cheese.
- If you replace one of the snacks from a plum smoothie, it will help you lose weight.
- For better satiation, do not drink smoothies, but eat with small spoons. This will allow you to eat a small portion of the cocktail.
- You should not add sugar to the smoothie - this will significantly increase its caloric content, but not its nutritional value. If you need to sweeten a cocktail, do it with honey.
- Do not eat large quantities of plum smoothies so as not to cause stomach upset.
By following these recommendations, you can not only make a delicious smoothie, but also make it as healthy as possible.
Red Plum and Nectarine Smoothie
Composition:
- plums - 100 g;
- nectarines - 150 g;
- banana - 0, 2 kg;
- kefir - 0, 2 l.
Preparation Method:
- Fruit wash and dry with a napkin.
- Cut the plums and nectarines in half, remove the bones from them.
- Slice the pulp of plums and nectarines into medium-sized slices and place them in the blender bowl.
- The banana, peeled, cut into slices and place them to the rest of the fruit.
- Turn on the blender and chop the fruit to a puree state.
- Pour in kefir and whip it together with fruit purée until a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
The cocktail has a warm pink hue, exudes a seductive aroma, has a balanced sweet-sour taste. Sweeten it is not required.
Smoothies made from yellow plums and raspberries
Composition:
- ripe yellow plums - 150 g;
- banana - 150 g;
- raspberry - 100 g;
- honey - 10 ml;
- orange - 0, 2 kg;
- cinnamon - a pinch;
- ice - to taste.
Preparation Method:
- Go through the raspberries. Rinse it carefully. Spread out on a towel so that it dries quickly. Put some berries to decorate the cocktail, put the rest into the blender jar.
- Wash the plums. Cut them in half, remove the bones.
- Cut the plums into slices, place them against the raspberries.
- Peel the banana, cut into slices, send to the blender to the remaining ingredients.
- Sprinkle with honey. If it is candied, it must first be melted. You can do this in a water bath or in the microwave.
- Grind the contents of the jug by turning on the machine for a minute and a half.
- Cut the orange in half and squeeze the juice. Pour it into the rest of the ingredients.
- Whisk.
- Add cinnamon and whisk again.
- At the bottom of the glasses, place the pieces of ice, fill them with a plum cocktail, decorate with raspberries.
The optimistic yellow-orange color makes the smoothie made according to this recipe very appetizing. Its taste will please even the most fastidious sweet tooth. Dessert is obtained not only sweet, but also useful.
Plum Smoothies with Apple and Watermelon
Composition:
- plums - 100 g;
- watermelon - 150 g;
- apple - 100 g;
- flax seeds - 5 g;
- honey - 5 ml;
- mint - for decoration.
Preparation Method:
- Separate the watermelon pulp from the rind, peel off the seeds, cut into small cubes and send to the freezer for half an hour.
- Half the medium sized apple peeled, cut the seed box out of the fruit.
- Cut the apple pulp into small cubes or slices.
- Wash plums, blot with a napkin and, after cutting, free from stones. Cut the plums into slices.
- Put pieces of plums, apples, watermelons into the bowl of the blender. Beat until a homogeneous composition.
- Enter the remaining ingredients and whisk again. At this stage, you can also add a handful of crushed ice, although there is no great need for this if the watermelon froze well.
Serve the plum-watermelon smoothie best decorated with a sprig of mint. This light refreshing drink is especially pleasant to drink on a hot summer day.
Plum and Raspberry Smoothies
Composition:
- plums - 0, 2 kg;
- raspberry - 0, 2 kg;
- water - 50 ml;
- mint - for decoration.
Preparation Method:
- Sort, wash and dry the berry. You can use and frozen raspberries. Before making a smoothie, she should be allowed to thaw out, but not completely, as from slightly frozen fruit, drinks with a more pleasant texture are obtained.
- Temporarily put the filtered water in the refrigerator.
- Wash plums. Obsushiv, cut and clean the stones. Divide each half of the fruit into several pieces with a knife.
- Place the plum and raspberry in the blender container. Add to them 50 ml of ice water.
- Beat the ingredients until smooth.
Spill the smoothie in glasses, decorate it with fresh mint leaves. Despite the fact that the composition of this cocktail includes a minimum of components, it tastes very pleasant. If it seems slightly sourish, it is not forbidden to sweeten it with a spoon of honey.
Smoothies from plums, bananas and oranges
Composition:
- plums - 100 g;
- banana - 0, 2 kg;
- orange - 0, 2 kg;
- honey - 10 ml.
Preparation Method:
- Peel the orange, disassemble it into slices. Peel off the pulp and place in a whisking container.
- Cut the peeled bananas into circles and send to the orange slices.
- Plums, having washed and dried, cut, remove their bones. Pulp cut into large slices, send to the rest of the fruit.
- Pour the fruit with two teaspoons of honey melted to a liquid.
- Chop the fruit, whipping it at the same time.
After spreading the smoothies in beautiful creamers or glasses, serve them to the table. According to this recipe, the cocktail is so thick that it is more convenient to eat with a spoon.
Plum Smoothies with Kiwi and Banana
Composition:
- unsweetened yogurt - 0, 5 l;
- plums - 75 g;
- Kiwi - 75 g;
- banana - 100 g;
- honey - 20 ml.
Preparation Method:
- Peel Kiwi, cut it into slices. Leave one circle to decorate the glass, put the rest into a bowl for beating, cut into 4 pieces.
- After peeling a banana, cut it into small cubes, put it to kiwi.
- Wash, dry plums. Cut in half, remove the bones. Send to the rest of the fruit.
- Pour the fruit with liquid honey.
- Turn fruit into mashed potatoes with an immersion blender.
- Add yogurt. Beat with a mixer or blender.
A cocktail prepared according to this recipe is quite easy. It can be eaten even in the evening, if the appetite is awakened after dinner has passed.
Plum smoothies are a light and tasty drink. It does not have a high calorie content, normalizes the work of the intestine, improving its peristalsis. It can be included in the diet, even those who are on a diet.
