Cold and Flu Busting Coconut and Orange Smoothie

By garciamoss

Ingredients

• TO MAKE INTO A GREEN SMOOTHIE Add:
• FRUIT SMOOTHIE INGREDIENTS
• 1 Cup Orange Juice
• 1 and a half Cups Coconut Milk (or one can) (Like this)
• 6 Clementines (3 cups)
• 2 teaspoons of Ginger (raw root ginger, or dried) (Like this)
• Juice of 2 Lemons
• OPTIONAL
• 2 Tablespoons Chia Seeds (Like this)
• 4 Tablespoons of Raw Manuka Honey (Like this)
• 20 drops of Echinacea (Like this)
• 4 Tablespoons of melted Coconut Oil (Like this)
• 1 Cup Spinach, tightly packed or 2 cups loosely packed (or any other mild greens)
• TO MAKE INTO A FRUIT THICKIE Add:
• 1 Cup Oats (Like this) (or one cup Quinoa (Like this) ) or 1 Avocado if you are avoiding grains
• TO MAKE INTO A GREEN THICKIE Add:
• 1 Cup Spinach, tightly packed or 2 cups loosely packed (or any other mild greens)
• 1 Cup Oats (Like this) (or one cup Quinoa (Like this) ) or 1 Avocado if you are avoiding grains

Details

Adapted from greenthickies.com

Preparation

Step 1

Blend the ingredients in the following order:

1. Blend the dry ingredients and liquid first for a short time

2. Blend the greens next for a short time (if using)

3. Blend the fruit and the rest of the ingredients until smooth (or as smooth as your blender will allow. High speed blenders may need 2 minutes for a Green Thickie, less powerful blenders may need a lot more, sometimes 5-10 minutes)

More tips:
Blending this way allows the dry ingredients to be blended for longest, it means the greens will fit in your blender and your fruit gets less blending so it doesn’t become too hot.

- Add more water if required to thin it out.

- Substitute any of the ingredients for whatever you already have.

- If your smoothie is too warm, you can cool it down in the fridge or freeze some of your ingredients before blending. You can also replace half of the liquids with ice. Add the ice at the end. It is better to add frozen ingredients at the end to cool the smoothie down.