Apple and banana smoothie with orange juice - tasty and healthy

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• a blender with a high bowl for whipping;
• cutting board;
• manual citrus juice squeezer;
• 200 ml capacity;
• paper towel;
• knife;
• tea spoon;
• glass;
• a tube for cocktails.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Fruit preparation

1. We take 2 apples, rinse under running water, remove excess moisture with a paper towel, divide them into quarters, remove the stalk and cut the seed core with a knife.
   
2. After that, divide the peeled quarters into 2-3 pieces. If the peel is very stiff, carefully cut it before cutting the apples into pieces.
   
3. Peel 1-2 bananas from the peel, put them on a cutting board and divide each one into 4 parts with a knife.
   
4. We also wash the oranges under running water, dry them with a paper towel, roll them on the cutting board with our hands to get the maximum juice and divide into halves, cut in the middle.
   
5. Using a manual juicer, squeeze the juice from the halves of the orange and pour it into a separate container. To make a smoothie, we need to get 150-200 ml of orange fresh.
   

Smoothie

1. In a blender bowl designed for making cocktails, pour pieces of apples, bananas, pour fruit with freshly squeezed orange juice and sprinkle 2-3 tsp on top. flax seeds.
   
2. Turn on the blender for 2-3 minutes, until all the ingredients are ground into a homogeneous mass.
   
3. Turn off the blender, add 1 tsp. brown sugar or honey to sweeten the drink, and 0.5-1 tsp. ground cinnamon, then beat our smoothie for about 1 minute.
   
4. Throw 3-4 ice cubes into the mixture and turn on the blender for another 30 seconds, using the pulsed mode of operation to crush hard ice.
   
5. Pour the cooked smoothie into a glass, dip a straw into it and serve. If desired, you can decorate the drink with grated chocolate and a stick of cinnamon on top.
   

Video recipe

Those readers who are better off to see once than to read the steps of step-by-step cooking several times should watch the video recipe. In it, the author clearly shows the whole process, from slicing fruit to serving the drink.

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