Avocado is one of the best foods to make a smoothie out of it. Its consistency is so soft and dense that a cocktail based on it comes out amazingly soft and smooth. With a pleasant taste, this fruit harmonizes well with any other fruits and vegetables. It itself is rich in a significant spectrum of vitamins and microelements, especially a lot of potassium, group B vitamins, tocopherol, as well as coarse dietary fibers that help cleanse the body. Avocado smoothies help preserve visual appeal. This also applies to the beauty of skin, hair, and slim figure. The taste of these cocktails like almost everyone.
Cooking Features
Avocado is well ground in a blender, giving the cocktail a soft texture, in harmony with any fruit, berries, vegetables. Making a smoothie out of it turns into a creative process in which the culinary imagination is not much limited. However, the knowledge of a few subtleties does not harm him.
- Not all housewives know how to properly separate the avocado pulp from the rind. To do this, the fruit is cut along the perimeter along, divided into two parts to remove the bone. After that, the pulp is cut several times with a knife crosswise so as to obtain a pattern in the form of cells. The cuts should be deep enough to reach the skin, but it cannot be damaged. Then the peel is turned out, and the pulp is easily separated from it. The resulting cubes are useful for making cocktails and other dishes.
- Eating an avocado smoothie will help you lose weight by replacing one of the main meals or snacks with them.
- In order to get enough of a relatively small portion of a smoothie, you should not drink it - it is better to eat with small spoons, not in a hurry.
- If you add sugar, ice cream or chocolate to the smoothie, it will turn into a pleasant dessert, but its use may have a negative impact on the figure. It is better to sweeten the cocktail with natural berries, fruits, and honey.
- If the recipe provides for the use of juice, it is better to take not a store-made drink made from concentrate, but freshly squeezed.
Avocado smoothies can be made not only sweet - a delicious mixture of these fruits with vegetables is obtained.
Avocado Smoothie with Cucumbers
Composition:
- avocados - 100 g;
- cucumbers - 0, 3 kg;
- spinach - 50 g;
- linseed oil - 20 ml;
- almond milk or filtered water - 0, 2 l;
- lime or lemon juice - 20 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the avocado, dry with a napkin, cut it in half. Pulp half of the fruit cut into cubes and separate from the peel. Place it in a blender container.
- Rinse, shake off the water spinach, chop it with a knife, you can not too shallow.
- Wash cucumbers, cut off their tips. Peel the vegetables. Cut their flesh into small cubes and place to avocado and spinach.
- Pour lemon juice or lime on linseed oil.
- Whisk, at the same time grinding ingredients. The result should be a homogeneous mass with a smooth consistency.
- Dilute with water or almond milk, whisk again.
The avocado and cucumber smoothie recipe will appeal to those who are not too fond of sweet food. This cocktail is very refreshing, quenches thirst and hunger. It normalizes the water-salt balance in the body, helps to maintain beautiful skin, smooth hair. Also, this smoothie helps to eliminate excess fluid from the body.
Avocado and Banana Smoothies
Composition:
- avocados - 0, 25 kg;
- banana - 0, 2 kg;
- honey - 5 ml;
- flax seeds - 20 g;
- filtered water - 0, 25 l.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the avocado washed and dried with a napkin in half, remove the stone. Separate the flesh from the rind and cut it.
- Peel the banana, cut into slices.
- Put the fruit pieces in the bowl for beating, add the melted honey and flax seeds to them.
- Turn on the blender and chop the ingredients until you get a smooth, smooth consistency.
- Add water and stir with a mixer or blender.
If you want to get a thicker rich cocktail, water in this recipe can be replaced with kefir or unsweetened yogurt. It will turn out so dense and nourishing that they will be able to have breakfast and not feel the sensation of hunger for several hours. On the other hand, the sweet taste of this smoothie allows you to serve it instead of dessert.
Smoothies with avocado, blueberries and kiwi
Composition:
- avocado pulp - 100 g;
- blueberries - 150 g;
- banana - 150 g;
- Kiwi - 150 g;
- fresh spinach - 100 g;
- raspberry - 100 g;
- water or milk - 0, 3 l.
Method of preparation:
- Carefully sort the berry, discard all the damaged specimens, sticky leaflets and other debris.
- Rinse the berry and sprinkle it on a towel so that it is more likely to dry.
- Wash, dry with napkins and chop the spinach with a knife.
- Peel kiwi, cut into large cubes.
- Separate the flesh of half an avocado from the peel, chop it with a knife.
- Peel bananas, cut into round slices.
- Put all prepared ingredients, except water or milk, in the blender bowl. Turn on the unit to grind food to a puree state.
- Add the milk and beat the fruit and berry puree with it until the consistency of the cocktail is obtained.
Smoothies prepared according to this recipe are useful and tasty at the same time. People who do not feel the need to follow a diet, including young sweethearts, drink it with pleasure.
Smoothies with avocado and strawberry
Composition:
- avocado (pulp) - 0, 2 kg;
- strawberries (fresh or frozen) - 0, 25 kg;
- banana - 150 g;
- unsweetened yogurt - 0, 2 l.
Method of preparation:
- Separate, grinding the avocado pulp from the rind with a knife. Do not forget to remove the bone from the fetus.
- Peel and slice the banana.
- Go through the berry, remove the sepals. Wash and let dry out, laid out on a towel. If the strawberry is frozen, remove it from the freezer in advance - it should thaw.
- Fold the fruit pieces and strawberries into the blender jar. Fill with yogurt.
- Turn the device on for 2-3 minutes to turn products into a homogeneous mass.
If you want to get a less thick cocktail, it is acceptable to replace the yoghurt with kefir, juice or plain filtered water. By adding a filled product instead of unsweetened sour milk drink, or replacing it with cream and ice cream, you will get an exquisite dessert, not devoid of useful properties.
Smoothies with avocado and orange
Composition:
- avocados - 0, 25 kg;
- orange - 0, 2 kg;
- lime - 1 pc .;
- bananas - 0, 3 kg;
- leaf lettuce - 100 g;
- honey - 20 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Squeeze juice from lime and orange.
- Peeled bananas, cut into circles.
- Free the avocado from the bone, separate the flesh from the rind and cut it into cubes.
- Chop or cut the lettuce leaves with a knife, after having washed them and dried them.
- Put lettuce, avocados and bananas in a blender bowl, pour in honey and chop.
- Add citrus juice and whisk with it.
A fragrant smoothie made according to this recipe has a pleasant sweet-sour taste and strengthens the immune system well.
Avocado smoothies are healthy and tasty, they have a soft and pleasant texture, so drinking or eating them is a pleasure. Cooking them does not take much time and effort.
