Microgreen Shake & Smoothie Recipes & Tips

A cocktail is a drink that is made by mixing different ingredients.

Smoothie in English means smooth, pleasant, soft. It is a drink with a thick consistency that is prepared in a blender. The most commonly used ingredients for preparation are fruits, berries, vegetables, as well as juice, milk, vegetable oil, ice cream, etc.

Now let's add some microgreens...

Drinking green smoothies and microgreen smoothies will bring tremendous benefits to the body: an abundance of energy, a 'blooming' appearance, strong immunity and a healthy intestine. To achieve these effects, it is enough to drink 1-2 glasses a day, so you forget about diseases and significantly improve the condition of the body.

Green Smoothie

Green smoothies can be made with any plant-based food that can be used as food. These include fruits, berries, vegetables, and herbs. The cocktail will acquire a pleasant texture and neutral taste with chopped cabbage, collard greens, spinach, and vegetable purslane. Due to this, the resulting mass can be mixed with any ingredients, sweet or unsweetened.To make a smoothie with a pleasant sourness, add sorrel, which is also rich in vitamin C.

In addition to greens for salads, you can add spicy plants to smoothies, such as dill, parsley, mint, oregano, thyme, celery, lemon balm, and others. To enhance the taste, it is also recommended to use leafy mustard, arugula, Japanese cabbage and other types of kale.

And of course, microgreens are a storehouse of vitamins. They contain many vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. It is noteworthy that such a huge amount of useful substances can only be found in very young sprouts, and there are several times less useful substances in adult plants. Sprouts of cereals, microgreens of herbs, cabbage and other vegetable plants are also added to green cocktails, with the exception of nightshade plants, which are poisonous.

Green Smoothie Recipes

To get the most out of green smoothies, they need to be prepared right. The following tips will help you get it right:

• 1. You do not need to squeeze juice from plants, instead they need to be crushed in a blender with water for 30-60 seconds. Thus, you will be able to preserve fiber, and the smoothie will oxidize more slowly.
• 2. Choose one vegetable or one fruit for the base, and add no more than 3 varieties of microgreens to it. There should not be too many components mixed in one drink.
• 3. Choose a fruit or vegetable for the base, don't mix both. Microgreens can be paired with anything.
• 4. All ingredients should be thoroughly washed. Check them for freshness, there should be no signs of wilting or rot.
• 5. Consume the smoothie as soon as it's made, while it's still fresh. If that's not possible, be sure to put the smoothie in a sealed container in the fridge and keep it there for no more than 2-3 days.
• 6. To get the maximum benefit and replenish the supply of nutrients, have different drinks using different types of microgreens.

Recipes for 'green' cocktails

With the help of green drinks you can add a variety to your diet – add more fresh herbs, and enrich the body with useful substances. A regular use of such drinks provides protection from many diseases, the body recovers strength, the appearance becomes more radiant, and excess weight goes away.

Microgreen Berry Smoothie:

• sea buckthorn berries - 100 g;
• arugula microgreens - half a glass;
• ginger root - 1 piece, about 1 cm in size;
• apple - 1 pc;
• vegetable milk - 100 ml.

Pea microgreen smoothie:

• pea microgreens - add to taste;
• avocado - half;
• cucumber - 1 pc;
• cilantro - 1 sprig;
• rosemary - 1 sprig.

Cucumber Microgreen Smoothie:

• microgreens - radishes are better, but other types will work;
• fresh mint - 1 bunch;
• cucumber - 2 pcs;
• honey - optional;
• water - 1 cup.

Detox Cocktail:

• pea microgreens - 100 g;
• kiwi without skin - 2 pcs;
• orange juice - 200 g;
• oatmeal - 2 tbsp;
• honey - 1 teaspoon.