Beet veggie smoothie

This beet smoothie is a  delicious way to get your daily portion of vegetables. It is like a savoury vegetable salad with just a little punch from the fresh ginger. In addition, the olive oil is great for the health of your nervous system.

Beet veggie smoothie

                                                    Yield: 2 smoothies

Ingredients:

1 beet, approximately 5 c. (2 in.) in diameter

6 beet leaves, including stalks

1 sweet red bell papper

1 tomato

1 carrot

½ teaspoon grated fresh ginger

1 - 2 celery stalks 

6 - 8 stems of cilantro

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

¼ cup cold water

salt and pepper to taste

Beet, beet leaves, sweet red bell pepper, tomato, ginger
celery, cilantro and carrot

Preparation:

1. Wash the vegetables. Peel the beet. Chop it into chunks. Place into a blender together with ¼ cup water. Pulse on 'High'.

2. Add chopped tomato, bell pepper and carrot to blender. Blend until pureed.

3. Add the remaining ingredients. Blend to a fine pureed. Adjust seasonings.

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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

Chopped beet, blood orange, raspberries,
sweet red bell pepper, and strawberries
in blender

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.)

Beet, blood orange and raspberry smoothie

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Beet, mango, tomato and red bell pepper juice

Enjoy the healthiest beet juice in town when it comes straight from your own garden or refrigerator via your juicer. This juice is simple and easy to prepare when you use the freshest possible fruits and vegetables.

Beet, mango, tomato and sweet red bell pepper juice

Ingredients:

1 medium-sized beet root, washed, peeled

½ ripe mango

1 plum (Roma) tomato

½ sweet red bell pepper

Beet, tomato, mango and sweet red bell pepper

Preparation:

1. Wash all the fruit and vegetables.

2. Cut the beet root into small chunks. Put these chunks into the juicer and juice them.

3. Slice half of the mango away from its large seed, length-wise. Score the flesh into chunks, then cut them away from the skin using a sharp paring knife. Put these into the juicer and juice them.

4. Chunk the tomato, then juice it.

5. Slice the sweet red bell pepper in half length-wise. Discard the core and seeds. Chop the prepared portion into chunks. Juice them.

6. Decant the juice into a glass. Enjoy!

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