Vegetable Smoothies - Vegetable Smoothies Recipes

Tomatoes are a great ingredient for a healthy smoothie recipe because of their antioxidant properties. Men in particular should add tomatoes to their diet to help prevent prostate cancer.

Ingredients: 

• 2 cups (chopped) tomatoes
• 1/2 cup tomatoe juice
• 1/4 cup apple juice
• 1/2 cup carrots
• 1/4 cup (chopped) celery
• Tabasco or hot sauce to taste
• 2 cups ice

Ingredients

• 12 ounces of fresh carrot juice
• 2 cups of vanilla yogurt
• 1/2 of a peeled lime
• 3 baby carrots
• 8 ice cubes

Directions: Place all of the ingredients into a blender, and mix until smooth.  Using freshly juiced carrot juice is recommended.  Serves 2.
Author: Carrot Juice

Ingredients

• 2 cups carrot juice
• 1/2 cup apple juice
• 6 oz. non-fat vanilla or plain yogurt, frozen
• 1 banana

Put all ingredients into blender. Blend until smoothie consistency is reached!

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup tofu
• 1 1/2 cups tropical V-8 Splash or other pineapple/citrus blend
• 1/4 cup plain non fat yogurt
• 1/2 banana
• Frozen strawberries, pineapple, and mango
• water or soy milk to taste/consistency

Optional:
3 or 4 baby carrots (you’ll never know they’re in there!) 1 tbs. wheat germ or 4-5 almonds
Blend all ingredients in blender until smooth.

Ingredients

• 1 cucumber, peeled, seeded and chopped
• 3 tablespoons mint leaves & mint spigs — finely chopped
• 1 1/2 cups apple juice or still cider
• 1 cup lemon sorbet
• 1 cup ice cubes

Place the cucumber, mint, apple juice or cider, sorbet and ice in a blender, and blend until smooth. Garnish with mint, and serve. Yield: 2
16-ounce servings.

Cucumber, red pepper and scallions blend in our vegetable Smoothie to help get the morning off to a vigorous start.

Ingredients

• 2 cups tomato juice
• 1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper
• 1/2 cup peeled and chopped cucumber
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons chopped scallions
• 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon fresh-ground pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon hot-pepper sauce

Preparation

Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Chill for at least 30 minutes. Fill 4 glasses with ice and divide the smoothie mixture among the glasses.

Serves 4

Ingredients

• 2 bananas, peeled, sliced and frozen
• 1 1/2 cups pineapple juice
• 8 oz packet vanilla low-fat yogurt
• 1 cup fresh or frozen raspberries

Preparation

Freeze bananas until hard. Combine the bananas, pineapple juice, yogurt and raspberries in the container of a blender, blend until smooth. Serve immediately.

Get a healthy dose of vitamin C and beta-carotene in a concoction that tastes like an intensely delicious creamsicle, and is good enough to serve as a dessert.

Ingredients

• 2 cups diced lush, ripe cantaloupe
• 1 to 1 1/2 cups carrot or carrot-orange juice
• 2 tablespoons orange juice concentrate
• 1 cup low-fat vanilla frozen yogurt or nondairy frozen dessert

Preparation

Combine all the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Adjust consistency with more liquid if desired. Serve at once in tall glasses. Serves 2 to 3.

If you enjoy the taste of raw vegetables, then you’ll love this Raw vegetable Smoothie. The health benefits of raw vegetables are well known and many people enjoy drinking their raw vegetables just as much as eating them.

This Raw vegetable Smoothie has a wonderful twang to it because of the picante salsa. It’s very flavorful and you will want to make this a regular staple of your raw foods diet.

Ingredients

• 1 - 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice OR balsamic vinegar
• 4 tablespoons picante salsa
• 1 cup raw broccoli
• 1 raw tomato, quartered
• 1/2 raw carrot, cut into 1-inch pieces
• 1 cup raw kale, or any leafy green
• 1 - 2 cloves raw garlic
• 1/2 cup raw hulled sunflower seeds
• 1/2 cup raw un-hulled sesame seeds
• 1 - 2 slices onion

Preparation

Start by pouring liquid ingredients (lemon juice, salsa) into blender. Add remaining ingredients and blend until texture is that of a creamy milkshake.

About Author:
Copyright 2004
Donna Monday
Easy to make – fun to drink
http://www.1st-milkshake-n-smoothie-recipes.com

Ingredients

• 1  Carrot (chopped)
• 4  Florets of Broccoli
• 2  Handfuls of Spinach
• 1  Apple (chopped)
• 2  Oranges (peeled and quartered)
• Orange Juice to dilute

You can change the fruit and vegtables to your requirements but this is one way of ensuring you get the portions of fruit and vegtables your body requires.

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