Ingredients
- 2 c. Greek Yogurt (or You Can Use Vanilla Or Any Flavor)
- 1 c. Milk (whole, 2%, Etc—or You Can Use Soy, Almond, Etc.)
- 2 c. Pineapple Chunks
- 1 c. Green, Seedless Grapes
- 1 whole Green Apple, Cored And Cut Into Chunks
- 1 whole Pear, Cored And Cut Into Chunks
- 1 whole Banana, Peeled
- 1/2 bunch Kale Leaves (or Spinach, Collard, Or Mustard Greens)
- 1/4 c. Honey (or Other Sweetener) (optional)
- Additional And Optional Add-Ins: Mango Chunks, Spinach, Cucumber, Zucchini, Coconut Oil Or Milk
- Ice, Amount As Desired
Directions
- Put everything in a blender and top it off with ice. Blend until smooth and serve in small amounts!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Rather than share a decadent Shamrock Shake or a moist-and-delicious Guinness Cake or other drippy, sinful St. Paddy’s Day treat, I thought I’d be a rebellious little leprechaun and share a simple, relatively healthy green smoothie for those among us who are in the mood!
This smoothie would go great with a Shamrock Shake, by the way…)
(Ha.)
Start by adding a heap of yogurt to the blender. This is plain Greek yogurt, but you can use vanilla Greek yogurt, regular vanilla yogurt, or any flavor of yogurt (including yogurt containing fruit) you’d like!
It’s a smoothie, baby. There are no rules.
Add a little bit of milk. I used whole milk because whole milk is my life, but you can do anything all the way down to nonfat…or you can use soy milk, almond milk—whatever makes your skirt fly up.
Pile in some fruit. I kept it in the yellow/green family so the smoothie would wind up being nice and bright green later: pineapple, banana (against my better judgment, but bananas and smoothies just go together), green apple, pear, and grapes.
OTHER POSSIBILITIES: Mango, avocado (yes!), cucumber, zucchini.
A little ice is nice! I like smoothies that are undeniably, unapologetically freezing cold.
Blend that baby until it’s super blended and smooth…
And then it’s time for the green to assert itself. Grab some kale and add a bunch to the blender…
Then blend it again…
Until it’s all mixed in.
OTHER POSSIBILITIES: Spinach, collard greens, mustard greens, or a mix of all of the above.
Oops! Don’t forget the honey or whatever sweetness you want. (If you use vanilla or other flavored yogurt, you won’t have to sweeten it quite as much.)
OTHER POSSIBILITIES: Sugar, brown sugar, stevia, maple syrup,
OPTIONAL INGREDIENT: Don’t quote me on this, but if you added a very small spoonful of coconut oil OR a little coconut
Then serve it up!