Recipes of smoothies: an extravaganza of taste

Let's try to guess such a riddle: not a drink or a meal, but nutritious and useful, is an excellent dessert and, at the same time, suitable for a diet. Smoothie cocktail is the right answer. It is really a completely new type of food, which in some fantastic way combines seemingly completely incompatible qualities. In addition to excellent taste, stunning appearance and a record amount of vitamins, microelements and other useful ingredients contained in it, smoothies are also extremely easy to prepare. That is why, cocktails of this type are firmly settled in the menu and the most chic restaurants, and democratic cafes, and in the kitchens of original and talented housewives.

As a rule, several kinds of fruit or berries, ice, various juices or dairy products are included in smoothies recipes. But the main component of such a cocktail is, of course, your imagination, which will help to invent new and new variants of this wonderful universal cold dessert. Also, a good blender may be needed to make it, but it is not a prerequisite.

For example, banana smoothies are easy to prepare and without the participation of high technology. The role of the blender is beautifully performed by the usual fork, with which you will easily smash the banana. To the resulting mass should be added a glass of low-fat cream, vanilla and sugar to taste, chopped ice, as well as a little child's instant porridge or oat flakes of instant cooking. Decorate the finished cocktail with grated chocolate. Such recipes for smoothies can and should be supplemented with their own interesting ideas. Successfully shade a sweet banana will help the more tart and sour tastes of berries and fruits like currants, blueberries, cranberries, grapefruit. Instead of cream, safely add ice cream, milk or favorite yogurt. And the appearance of the cocktail completely depends on your aesthetic preferences: it can be an elegant twig of fresh mint or a riot of colors of various fruits or berries.

Smoothies - an excellent means of refreshing on a hot summer day, having received, at the same time, the right amount of calories and vitamins. So, mixing a quarter of a glass of blueberries, raspberries, one apple, some grapes, ice and a few leaves of fragrant mint, you will get an incomparable pleasure in taste, a sunny mood and a charge of vivacity.

The following smoothie recipes are perfect for everyone who follows their figure. For the first cocktail, the pulp of half a watermelon, the juice of two oranges and a little grated ginger, will be needed. After cooling these ingredients, grind them in a blender and add to the mass of crushed ice. Served such a dessert in a tall glass with a wide straw.

There are also unsweetened types of chilled cocktails, more like soup-purees. An example of such original culinary delights can be recipes for smoothies, which in addition to berries and fruits have vegetables. For example, by chopping and mixing strawberries, tomatoes, a few sheets of Peking cabbage, natural yogurt and a little honey in the blender, you will get a completely new taste quality that can impress even the most demanding gourmet.

The best party decoration will be the next sparkling fruit cocktail. You will need a pomegranate, several mandarins, half a glass of raspberries, as many cranberry juice and white champagne or sparkling wine. Pomegranate and mandarin must be cleaned of white bitter veins, then all ingredients are placed in a blender, and after intensive mixing, the resulting mixture is filtered through a large sieve and cooled for eight hours. In this stunning mix, the alcoholic component can be replaced by a lemonade or just a fruit juice.

So, fantasize, create and enjoy this pleasant process and its tasty and useful results.