Ingredients
Green Smoothie
- 2 ripe bananas, halved
- 2 Ripe pears, cored and quartered
- 2-3cm piece piece of fresh ginger
- 1/2 tsp ground cardamom
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 50-100g leafy greens e.g. spinach, silverbeet
- 350 g Almond milk, (see recipe below)
Almond milk
- 1 cup raw almonds
- 1/4 tsp salt
- filtered water, for soaking
- 1.25 litres Flitered water, for the milk
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Blend for 2 minutes on speed 9 and serve for two
Soak the almonds in a glass or ceramic bowl for 24 hours with the salt and enough water to cover the almonds by 3-4cm. If you remember, change the soak water after 12 or so hours.
Drain and rinse the soaked almonds well. place with 1.25Litres of water in TM bowl with the soaked almonds and blend on speed 9 for 90 seconds.
Strain mixture thorugh a nut milk bag or fine straining cloth. Gently massage the mixture to help seperate the milk from the remaining fibre. Don't squeeze your bag too hard or you may burst the seems and squash fibre through.
Store milk in glass jars in your fridge and use within 3 days - this amount will be enough for 3 smoothies.
Soaking helps to deactivate substances that are stopping the nut/seed from growing, particularly protease inhibitors (protease is an enzyme that helps break down protein). Soaking also aids the removal of anti-nutrients like phytates that can interfere with mineral absorption; however phytates are more of an issue in grain foods.
When soaking grain foods for cooking, like rice and quinoa, the addition of an acidifier helps with the phytates such as whey or lemon juice. For nuts and seeds, the addition of salt to the soak water helps with the removal of the enzyme inhibitors. Eating nuts and seeds after they have been soaked is more kind to our digestion and improves nutrient availability.
Green Smoothie
Almond Milk
Tip
This smoothie is inspired by the very wet, cold and dreary winter in Southern Australia in 2012!
This smoothie is very warming and not for the faint hearted! I love it but my hubby finds a bit too hot. You can always reduce the ginger and cardamom in this instance.
Instead of making almond milk, you can used bought almond or rice milk or use water with 2 tbs of sunflower or hemp seeds.
For beginners use 50g or greens, for regular green smoothie drinkers use 100g
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Recipe is created forTM 31
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