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Saturday Breakfast
Beet, mango, carrot and strawberry smoothie
Mango and strawberry flavours predominate in this beautiful and delicious beet smoothie. It contains four of your day's portions of fresh fruits and vegetables and all the wholesome goodness of raw beets.
| Beet, mango, carrot and strawberry smoothie |
Yield: 1 smoothie
Ingredients:
1 beet, approximately 5 c. (2 in.) in diameter, washed, peeled, chopped
4 large fresh strawberries, washed, halved, greens removed
1 carrot, washed, chopped
1 ripe mango, peeled, sliced
¼ cup carrot juice
| Chopped beet, mango, strawberries and carrot |
Preparation:
1. Wash the fruit and vegetables.
2. Peel the beet. Chop it into chunks. Place into a blender with carrot juice. Pulse on 'High'.
2. Add chopped carrot to blender and pulse until pureed.
3. Add strawberries and mango. Blend to a fine pureed.
Beet, blood orange and raspberry smoothie
This raw beet root smoothie fairly floods your mouth with fabulous taste sensations for there's more goodness in it than the title can say. Strawberries and sweet red bell pepper are added for a whopping supply of whole vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients plus your friend and mine: fibre.
| Beet, blood orange, raspberries, sweet red bell pepper, and strawberries |
Ingredients:
1 beet, approximately 5 c. (2 in.) in diameter, washed, peeled, chopped
½ cup fresh strawberries, washed, halved, greens removed
½ cup raspberries, washed
1 blood orange, peeled, chopped
¼ fresh, sweet red bell pepper, washed, chopped
¼ cup water
Preparation:
1. Wash the fruit and vegetables.
2. Peel the beet. Roughly chop into chunks. Place into a blender with water. Pulse on 'High'.
2. Add remaining ingredients when peeled, or otherwise treated as indicated in the ingredients list.
3. Blend to a fine puree. (Most raspberry and strawberry seeds will remain intact.)
