Morning Smoothie with a Kick

By Janice Joy Miller
@earth2joy

I got a Vitamix for Christmas from Santa, and I LOVE it! I use it all the time - mostly to make fruit & veggie smoothies, sometimes soups, and occasionally spreads and such. Today, I felt like a ginger, celery, apple, carrot, grapefruit, lemon, bell pepper smoothie. Usually, I'd add kale or spinach, but today, I didn't have any. Nor did I have any ice! All I had was cubes of frozen coffee. I thought, well, if it's awful - oh well. To my tremendous surprise, it was extraordinary! Something about that roasted coffee flavor with the lemon and other fruits. I will definitely be making this again.

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Serves:

2 to 4

Prep:

5 Min

Method:

No-Cook or Other

Ingredients

1 large: ruby red grapefruit, peeled
1 large: sweet apple, cut into 8 chunks
1 medium: peeled carrot, cut in 3 or 4 pieces
1 small: meyer lemon, cut in half, unpeeled
6 stalk(s): average size celery (equivalent to about a cup and a half)
1: knob of fresh ginger, 1" long x 1/2" dia
1/2 large: red bell pepper, cut into chunks
4: packets truvia sweetener (or real sugar or honey to taste)
2 c: water
6: cubes frozen black coffee (equivalent to maybe half a cup or so) more or less to taste

Step-By-Step

1Put all the fruit, vegetables, water, Truvia (or other sweetener) and ginger in a Vitamix blender. If you don't have one, you can use a regular blender, but it won't be as smooth.

2Blend on the smoothie setting, or until smooth.

3Add frozen black coffee and blend until smooth.

4Serve cold. Garnish with an orange slice.

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