Sweet potato, peach and apricot smoothie (Green Thickie)
Ingredients
- 3 Oranges Or 2 cups of orange juice
- 4 Peaches or nectarines or 2 mangos
- 2 Apricots
- 1 Apple
- 1/2 juice Lime
Thickie (Optional):
- 1 cup Sweet potato 1 Medium potato peeled and cubed. Can use raw or cooked and cooled.
Green Smoothie (Optional):
- 1 cup Leafy greens Such as spinach, chard, kale, lettuce or bok/pak choy
- OR if you run out of fresh greens add 2 scoops of Amazing Green Powder for an extra healthy green boost.
Instructions
- Blend the ingredients in the following order:
- Blend the greens (if using) and oranges/ orange juice first for a short time
- Blend the other fruit and the rest of the ingredients until smooth (or as smooth as your blender will allow. High speed blenders may need 2 minutes for a green thickie, less powerful blenders may need a lot more, sometimes 5-10 minutes)
- More tips
- Blending in this order allows the dry ingredients to be blended for longest, it means the greens will fit in your blender and your fruit gets less blending so it doesn’t become too hot.
- Add more water if required to thin it out.
- Substitute any of the ingredients for whatever you already have.
- If your smoothie is too warm, you can cool it down in the fridge or freeze some of your ingredients before blending. You can also replace half of the liquids with ice. Add the ice at the end. It is better to add frozen ingredients at the end to cool the smoothie down.
Notes
How much should I drink to replace a meal?
- Only use a meal replacement if you’ve added the oats/quinoa.
- This green thickie serves 2 so you should DRINK HALF OF THIS RECIPE. But if you have higher calorie requirements you may need to drink more.