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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Banana Almond Butter Cup Ice Cream Using a Vita-Mix 4500 and a Samson 9001

Ok, so as my addiction to raw desserts continues, I also wanted to learn how to make delicious raw vegan icecream (it’s my favorite!!). You can make some very simple recipes by blending up a banana and some almond milk, maybe some vanilla and letting it freeze (or a frozen banana and mixing in almond milk and vanilla), but here is a more complex, delicious recipe!

I got this recipe from EverydayRaw also (by Matthew Kenney)

Ingredients:

• 1 cup cashews, soaked 1-2 hours
• 1/2 cup young coconut meat
• 1/2 cup agave
• 1.25 cups water
• 2 fresh bananas, ripe and peeled
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1/4 vanilla bean, scraped out
• a pinch of salt (preferably sea salt)
• 1/2 cup coconut oil
• 3/4 cup Almond Butter Cup Pieces (see previous post for recipe)
• 1/2 cup cacao nibs

Directions:

1. In a Vita-Mix, blend everything except the Almond Butter Cup Pieces and the Cacao Nibs until the mixture is very smooth.
2. Stir in the cacao nibs and 1/2 to 3/4 of the almond butter cups. Put remaining almond butter cups back in the fridge.
3. Spread that mixture into a parchment lined pan and make a layer that is no more than 1 inch thick. Leave the mixture to freeze.
4. Once frozen, remove mixture and cut the frozen mixture into strips that will fit in your masticating juicer (set it up to homogenize- either mincing cone or open blank, no nozzle required).
5. Send the frozen chunks through the juicer to homogenize and you will be left with a soft-serve like texture.
6. Stir in remaining almond butter cups and enjoy! Put remainder back into the freezer.

Yields: 1 quart

Note: You need a masticating juicer to make ice cream this way. I used my Samson 9001 Juicer but any masticating juicer will do. Also, if you don’t have a juicer, you can use an icecream maker or try to stir the mixture every 3-4 hours and it freezes.

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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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