Mango Green Monster Smoothie Using My Samson 9001 Juicer

MMM I’m completely addicted to my early morning green smoothies! After one of these babies I feel like I have enough energy to lead an army. Give one a try and you will begin to believe in the benefits of raw foods. Which, by the way, I definitely need to write a detailed post about sometime soon! Here’s my Mango Green Monster Smoothie Recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 tbs flax
• 1/2 mango (DO NOT INCLUDE THE PIT, skin is acidic tasting, so probably best to peel)
• 1/2 banana
• 2 cups spinach
• 1 cup almond milk (or soy, rice or regular old dairy)

Steps if Using a Juicer:

1. Set up the juicer for homogenizing frozen foods – mincing cone or homogenizing blank and no nozzle required.
2. Clean off your produce and cut it up.
3. Put everything but the milk through your juicer and collect it in a bowl.
4. Mix it all togehter, stirring in the almond milk.
5. Send that entire mixture through your juicer one more time if necessary.
6. ENJOY!

Steps if using a blender:

1. Rinse off all your produce and chop is up (remove peal of mango and banana)
2. Place in blender: almond, then spinach, then banana and mango, then pour in milk.
3. Blend or pulse on high until everything is well blended.
4. Enjoy!

I made this Green Monster using my Samson 9001 Juicer but you can also make it using a blender. I would highly suggest a commercial strength blender like a Blendtec Total Blender.

The Green Monster Smoothie was started by Angela at OhSheGlows. She’s great! Please check her blog out if you have some time!

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Raw Almond Milk Using a SoyaBella or Vita-Mix 4500

Okay so one of the first things I fell in love with that fell into a raw food diet was almond milk! You can buy it at the store but if you make it yourself there is NOTHING else like it! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

You either need a soymilk maker – like the Soyabella or a blender, like the Vita-Mix 4500 and a fine mesh screen. Sprouting bags or nut milk bags work very well, but you can also use pantyhose if you are desperate (or a cheesecloth). You don’t need a bag with the Soyabella because it has a little screen inside it that will contain the almond pulp and strain it automatically.

Directions:

1. Soak 1 cup of almonds in 3 cups of water overnight (6-8 hours in the fridge)
2. Rinse off the almonds (you will notice they have now expanded). You want a ratio of about 1 cup of almonds to 3 cups of water in the blender. This means you will need somewhere between 3-4 cups of water in your blender (since the almonds expanded). But simply throwing in 3 cups of water is perfectly fine!
3. Add in some vanilla bean or agave if you’d like it to be sweet.
4. Blend the entire mixture on high until its fully blended. (depending on your blender this could be 30 seconds – 2 minutes).
5. Get a large jug and strain the mixture through your milk bag into the jug (I use a mason jar). Squeeze at the almond pulp until all the liquid has been squeezed out.
6. Voila: Almond milk! I haven’t found a great use for the almond pulp yet but I will let you know when I do. Store the almond milk in the fridge (a sealed container is best). It’s good for a week or 2.

Note: If you’re using the soyabella, it’s very easy! Just throw soaked almonds in the container with water and blend. Read the instructions and you’ll be golden!

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Green Monster Smoothie Using my Samson 6-in-1 Juicer

As I said in my last post, I’m on a bit of a green juices and smoothies ride right now. I just can’t get enough of them! I love to make healthy green smoothies for breakfast (which is strange, because I normally don’t even like smoothies that much!) But I just can’t seem to get enough of them! I drink one in the morning for breakfast and I just feel like I have so much energy all day long and I’m not experiencing the same types of cravings I used to. I would highly suggest giving one of these delicious green monsters a try!

I made this smoothie using my juicer on the homogenize or mince setting.

Juicer Set Up:

• Mincing Cone (or homogenizing blank)
• Drum Cap Only (no Nozzle Required)

Ingredients:

• 1 tbs flax
• 1 banana
• 1-2 cups spinach
• 1-1.25 cups almond milk (or soy or dairy or rice, etc)

Directions:

1. Rinse spinach and peel banana (you can also chop it if you’d like)
2. Send the flax, banana and spinach through your juicer (either one at a time or a mixture).
3. Mix with milk product (in a glass or bowl) and if its too chunky, send the mixture (yes, with the almond milk) through your juicer one more time.
4. Either sip away or chug that baby and begin to feel the energy soaring through you!

Serves: 1

**HINT** You can certainly add ice for some added chunkiness but I find the banana makes it thick enough! You can also play around with this recipe, swapping in different fruits, but the banana is usually an important ingredient for the texture. Try half a banana and some other fruits.

Can’t keep fresh fruit or fresh bananas around? Freeze them and use frozen fruits! It’ll make it even more like a smoothie! You can also use frozen spinach if that’s easier for you. This morning I had no fresh bananas left but remembered I still had a batch of my homemade ice cream in the freezer. I just threw in a banana-sized chunk and it was delicious!

I got the Green Monster Recipe from Angela at Oh She Glows. She maintains an awesome blog- check her out!

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