Tropical Summer Smoothie

Try my Tropical Summer smoothie recipe, it’s  bright and yellow like a vase of Sunflowers!

This smoothie is wonderful for a summer evening dessert or even great for breakfast. It’s good for you, simple and is as yellow as sunflowers. I use my Vitamix to make this. The Vitamix is fast, very easy to wash and has incredible power to puree anything! I love my Vitamix! If you’re in the market for one that link will get you free shipping.

Now you can get creative with this recipe, or you can easily omit what you don’t have or even add in something else you do have on hand, and its wonderful every time!

Recipe:

In your Vitamix (type blender) put:
1/2 cup Coconut milk (or your choice of milk)
1  Mango – cut into chunks (remove peeling & pit)
1/3 cup  Pineapple pcs -frozen (about a handful)
1/2 a fresh Lemon (peeling removed)
1/2 a Banana  (you can use it all, but we don’t like alot of banana flavor- so I freeze the other half for next time)
5  Ice cubes  (if using frozen banana and frozen pineapple you can omit these)
1 cup  Yogurt –(I use greek yogurt, but peach yogurt is fab in this too)

1 plop (about 1 tablespoon, I don’t measure) of orange juice concentrate— (right out of the can)  I keep an opened can of orange juice concentrate inside my freezer door just for scooping plops into smoothies.
1 tablespoon Flax oil (optional, I only add for its health benefits, MCT oil works great too)
2 Tablespoons Maple syrup or few drops liquid stevia
1 – 2  tablespoons Kefir — (if you have, again its simply added for probiotic benefits but when I don’t have some made up, then I skip it)

Put all the above in your Vitamix (type blender). Start on low speed and go to high until thick and frosty, takes less than a minute.

Serve in pretty glasses with a straw and add a piece of fruit on the edge.
Enjoy!  Makes 3-4 glasses.

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