How to Make Organic Fruit Smoothies

The best tasting smoothies are homemade! Learn how to make delicious and refreshing organic fruit smoothies!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Blender
• Your choice of a variety of organic (or non-organic) fresh and/or frozen fruit
• Ice (optional)
• Fruit juice (optional)
• Sherbet, Sorbet, Ice Cream, or Yogurt (optional)
• Honey (optional)
• Sugar (optional)

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   How Much Fruit Will You Need?
   When you are making a fruit smoothie for just yourself, then put about a cup of your choice of fruit into the blender for a smaller portion, or about 2 cups of fruit for a mega-size smoothie. When making smoothies for your family or a few people, fill up the blender about 1/2-3/4 of the way with your fruit. When deciding how big you want your smoothie or smoothies to be, keep in mind that if you are going to put in a bunch of additional ingredients it can add a considerable amount of volume to your smoothie. If you are making your smoothie for a few people and are going to add a lot of additional ingredients then you should fill up the blender about 1/2 way with your fruit.
   
   To learn how to make the healthiest kinds of fruit smoothies, refer to step #2. To make dessert-like fruit smoothies, then refer to step #3.

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   The Healthiest Smoothies
   To get the most health benefits out of your smoothie use a variety of organic fresh fruits. The healthiest smoothies are very simple with little or no other ingredients added to your fresh fruit. But if you’d like it to be a little slushier, or cooler, you can add in some organic frozen fruit or ice. If you’d like to thin it out a little, then add in some fresh fruit juice or even water. The healthiest smoothies can also have plain, organic yogurt added to them, to give them a creamier consistency.

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   Smoothie Extravaganza
   When you’re feeling like getting creative with your smoothie and want an extra special treat, you can toss in some scrumptious ingredients like ice cream, sherbet or sorbet. You can also add honey or sugar to taste to sweeten your smoothie up. These add-ons are obviously going to detract from some of the nutritional value of your smoothie, but everyone needs a treat now and then, right? And you can always keep it a little lighter by using sorbet or honey for sweetening.

4. Blend Away
   After you’ve added all the ingredients you’d like into your blender, then simply begin blending away! I start off using the pulse function on my blender. After your ingredients have been mixed together a little, then you can switch your blender’s speed function to normal or high (fast) until it is all mixed together to your desired consistency.

Tips & Warnings

• You can have smoothies for breakfast, to give you that extra burst of energy for the day. Or you can indulge yourself in the afternoon and sip on a cool, slushy-like smoothie. Have one with a meal! That’s one a greatest things about fruit smoothies: you can enjoy them whenever you want to and add whatever ingredients you'd like to. They can be super-healthy or they can be more of a dessert like treat. Another great thing about smoothies is that you can experiment with your ingredients and their proportions in your concoctions. Have fun, great creative, and make it a family affair! Homemade, organic fruit smoothies beat the store bought kind any day!

Resources

• Gillian McKeith

[LilacGirl]

on 7/23/2009 Delicious and easy to make recipe for organic fruit smoothies.