Green Smoothie Recipe

Last Updated April 19th, 2022 at 02:10 pm by Lisa

This green smoothie recipe is full of fresh nutritious ingredients to hydrate and nourish you for breakfast or anytime.

Sweet, clean, and full of ripe pineapple, banana, fresh spinach, tangy ginger, chia seeds, and freshly squeezed grapefruit juice.

Whip up a green smoothie or make some ready for your freezer. You will love the taste, and feel healthier, I promise.

It is all about that balance thing, right?

Dear friends sent a gift box from Texas of gorgeous ruby pink grapefruit, and I thought how can I use these in a clean healthy recipe? And this is what happened...

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Why This Green Smoothie Recipe Works!

• Loaded with bright green color.
• Fresh nutritious ingredients.
• Smooth with natural sweetness.
• A tangy clean taste.
• Under 150 calories.

Here Is What You Need...

Let's Make This Green Smoothie Recipe

1. Juice the pink grapefruits into a bowl using an electric juicer or a hand juicer.
2. Peel and grate the fresh ginger.
3. Place pineapple, frozen banana (unfrozen works fine!), chia seeds, spinach leaves, and grated ginger into a high-speed blender.
4. Pour grapefruit juice into the blender.
5. Blend until smooth.
6. Serve in a tall glass with straw and grapefruit wedge garnish and a cute straw.

pineapple

Learn how to cut pineapples into chunks the easy way, and to serve at parties or freeze the pineapple pieces at home.

ginger

Be sure to grate the ginger because the fibers in the ginger don't break down in a blender well. A microplane works really well to grate fresh ginger. Use either a spoon or vegetable peeler to take the brown skin off, then grate away.

grapefruit

I used ruby red grapefruit that has a jewel-like color! So pretty, but any variety of grapefruit will work just fine. 

bananas

Frozen works really well, I keep them in the freezer ready to go for smoothies. Try this as a  great solution when bananas get too ripe. Peel the bananas, then pop them in the freezer inside a zip-lock bag and they are ready when you want them for smoothies. 

chia seeds

As an option to chia seeds, try flax or hemp seeds. Any of these choices add fiber and some protein. 

spinach and pineapple

You will want to use fresh spinach for your smoothie, frozen won't give the right color and has a different flavor. Fresh pineapple is also ideal, but frozen is just fine and easy to have on hand. You can swap out kale or swiss chard, celery, or parsley, for the spinach, but the color and nutrition will vary based on those swaps. 

blenders

This recipe will work fine with any blender, the high-speed blenders do get smoothies, well....smooth! I find if I add ice, the high-speed blades do a great job of crushing the ice into that smooth texture, but any blender will work just fine. Even stick blenders are a quick and inexpensive option to make smoothies. 

freezer prep

Put all the ingredients to make one smoothie in a zip-top bag and pop in the freezer. Example: fresh spinach, banana, strawberries, blueberries, and pineapple. When you want a smoothie, simply add into your blender with either milk, water or coconut water, or nut milk, some ice, and blend away.

More Detox Green Smoothie Additions

• kale
• avocados (fresh or frozen)
• swiss chard
• parsley
• celery
• kiwi
• green apples
• pea protein powder
• whey protein powder
• green veggie powder
• flax seeds
• hemp seeds
• greek yogurt
• milk
• coconut water
• almond butter
• spices: cinnamon, turmeric

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