Vegetable cocktail: cooking recipes. Vegetable smoothies in a blender

Any doctor will tell you that smoothies are fruit and vegetable drinks and cocktails made from fresh gifts from orchards and vegetable gardens, which are much more useful than artificial “teas”, soft drinks and even store juices in which there are barely a dozen percent of natural ingredients. However, people themselves know this. And in a rush to make yourself a cocktail - vegetable, fruit or mixed - they are only stopped by their own laziness.

On the other hand, do not be too zealous. Juices drunk in liters cannot accelerate recovery or cause instant dumping of extra pounds. Rather, with this approach you “plant” your stomach or exacerbate some kind of chronic disease. Fruit and vegetable smoothies are drunk in an amount of not more than three glasses a day. Do not replace them with water.

Anti-aging drink

Those who regularly used a vegetable cocktail prepared according to this recipe assure that the skin becomes fresh from it, small facial wrinkles disappear, and the complexion becomes even and noble. For a cocktail, a large cucumber, two celery stalks, a clove of garlic and a little ginger are passed through a juicer, food processor or blender. If desired, the drink can be salted, although it is healthier to do without it.

If the composition did not seem too attractive to you, for the same purpose you can prepare other fruit and vegetable smoothies:

• three Bulgarian green peppers, six medium carrots, a little cabbage, spinach and turnip leaves;
• fans of fruit can make a drink of eight strawberries and two branches of grapes - black or green, but not pink.
  

Fighting the common cold

Fruit shakes will be very helpful in overcoming the effects of hypothermia or viral diseases. Naturally, they cannot replace drugs, but to provide support to the body and restore immunity is quite. You can use the following options.

1. Large peeled orange, half a lemon and a quarter cup of mineral water.
2. Grapefruit, two medium-sized oranges and three kiwis. This cocktail is recommended to strain.
3. A vegetable cocktail made from a bunch of celery, half a medium beet (preferably with leaves), three carrots and parsley is very effective in this regard. He is advised to take even recovering from chemotherapy.

These drinks can also prevent the disease.

We clean the body

A vegetable smoothie will also help in the removal of all kinds of harmful toxins. Homemade cocktails for this purpose are prepared from different components. For example, such:

1. Take two spoons of peeled and crushed ginger root, medium beetroot, four small carrots, an apple and a glass of water. The components are combined, like other vegetable smoothies, in a blender. Recipes, of course, allow the use of other kitchen units, but this gives a more even consistency. The mass is filtered off, cooled and drunk.
2. For another cocktail you will need: cabbage (about three large leaves), a cup of green grapes (take a seedless variety, for example, raisins, or raise them in advance), a cucumber, a small apple and half a glass of water. The products make their way through the blender, the drink is filtered and ready to drink.

Of course, these fruit and vegetable smoothies can be drunk and just like that - they are very tasty. However, if you set a goal to cleanse yourself, you need to take them on an empty stomach every day for two weeks.

Pumpkin favor

This inexpensive vegetable will benefit anyone. It removes unnecessary cholesterol from the body, normalizes the processes in the intestine and has a mild sedative effect. The only category of people who should avoid the pumpkin drinks offered is diabetes.

The first recipe for a vegetable pumpkin smoothie suggests first to cook about a half kilogram of this component, cut it into slices and lay in a blender with a large fresh tomato. Juice from a whole grapefruit and two lemons is pressed there. After punching, the cocktail is flavored with cinnamon and one or two tablespoons of honey.

Delicious and healthy pumpkin smoothie. For him, take a third of a glass of mashed potatoes from cooked or baked vegetable, half - milk, a little chopped nutmeg, a spoonful of honey and ice. All components are brought to a uniformity by the blender, and the smoothie is poured into a beautiful glass.

And you can feast on, and benefit yourself by making a vegetable smoothie of pumpkin and orange. Grams from seven hundred vegetables are made fresh, juice is squeezed out of three oranges and a piece of ginger (with a juicer, if you want a more liquid drink, with a blender, if you like it more thickly). Both liquids are mixed, poured into a beautiful glass and decorated with a leaf of mint.

To help losing weight

The mistake is made by those who, in an effort to achieve weighted perfection, switch exclusively to juice feeding. Firstly, this way you can bring yourself to exhaustion, since vegetable smoothies for weight loss are absolutely not nutritious. Secondly, leaving your stomach out of work, you run the risk of getting at least gastritis very soon - and in the long term, an ulcer.

Slimming vegetables smoothies should not replace meals. They act differently: they slightly reduce appetite, improve digestion and supply the body with vitamins and minerals, helping to easily tolerate food restrictions and eliminate some foods from the menu. Beetroot juice is very useful in observing diets - it removes the slags accumulated by it from the body, which, with a “squeezed” diet, can begin to be digested and poison it. However, it is strictly forbidden to drink undiluted, therefore it is recommended to prepare a vegetable smoothie in the company of carrot juice. Or mixed - beet and apple.

Celery Slimming

This plant is simply manna from heaven for those who return a lost figure. With a minimal calorie content of celery, cocktails with it for a long time leave a feeling of satiety and fill the body with the necessary vitamins, minerals and fiber. From a carrot, apple, miracle stalks and parsley, a vegetable smoothie is knocked in a blender; you can make its taste more refined by eliminating parsley and replacing it with lemon juice and honey.

Proper and delicious breakfast

Fearing to gain extra pounds can prepare fruit and vegetable smoothies for their first meal. They will enrich the body with the necessary substances and compounds, give strength for an active morning and allow you to survive until dinner without any problems. They will also raise the mood, because they are truly a treat. Try, for example, the following formulations.

1. A glass of low-fat milk is poured into the blender and cubes of small carrots are laid with a couple of leaves of spinach or cabbage plus ice. As you break through to smoothness - add slices of orange, slices of green apple and half a glass of white grape berries. Finally, half the avocado and banana are put in. After the final whipping, breakfast is poured into an aesthetic glass and decorated with a sprig of mint.
2. For this smoothie, all components are placed in a bowl at the same time: a glass of spinach, a cucumber without skin, parsley (only leaves), a celery stalk and a small apple. For aroma and taste, add two tablespoons of fresh lemon juice and pour half a teaspoon of zest with a third spoon of grated ginger.
3. Hearty and delicious breakfast: load a glass of skim milk, a quarter cup of boiled pumpkin and half an average banana into a blender. To spice it all up with four ice cubes and a pinch of cinnamon, knock it down until smooth and with pleasure, not rushing to drink.

Unloading diet

If you sometimes arrange yourself “light” days, trying to do without food at all, let a vegetable shake come to your aid. The blender combines cucumber, a young small zucchini and seasonings - a little salt, red pepper and coriander. With such a breakfast you will not notice how the fasting day will approach in the evening. And for dinner, you can make yourself a smoothie of two glasses of broccoli, half of a white squirrel, a quarter of celery and two apples. Do not forget about the ice!

Green smoothies: undeniable benefits

They are called green for the main tone that gives fresh vegetation from the garden. Most often, dill, onion, spinach, celery and parsley act as it, but no one forbids you to use any other. Naturally, the matter is not limited only to greens: other gifts of gardens are put in a vegetable green cocktail. Among its advantages in comparison with other similar drinks, you can specify the following:

1. The rich composition of amino acids and proteins, due to which there is a feeling of satiety without concomitant heaviness in the stomach.
2. An abundance of trace elements and mineral salts, coupled with chlorophyll.
3. The presence of natural antioxidants, successfully combating the harmful factors of the world.
4. Removal of toxins from organisms.
5. Light, unobtrusive tonic effect.
6. No restrictions on use: they are suitable for the elderly, children and pregnant women.

Plus a pleasant taste, good looking and high spirits.

How to make a green smoothie

The green mass is taken: in addition to the plants already listed, all types of lettuce, sorrel (careful for the stomach), beet or carrot tops, dandelion and nettle leaves, etc. are suitable. The greens is loaded into the blender along with any vegetables and fruits. There are only two rules to observe:

1. The green mass is taken in two parts, the fruit - three.
2. In one shake with herbs, do not mix vegetables with fruits - most often it turns out tasteless.

After working through the blender, the mass is diluted with water or squeezed juices with your own hands. Freshly prepared green smoothie is ideal. But in extreme situations it can “survive” in the refrigerator for up to three days.

The best green smoothies

Those who have not yet spoiled themselves with such drinks will at first be interested in recipes tested and approved by other people.

1. Spicy cocktail. Five tomatoes account for half a lemon, a bunch of parsley mixed with dill, a clove of garlic and a glass of water. Water can be replaced with juice: tomato or a mixture of bell pepper and beetroot juices.
2. Citrus note. Salad acts as greens. Two carrots and an orange without skin are included, and the juice of a small segment of ginger root is used as seasoning. It is diluted with water or diluted orange juice.
3. Unusual cocktail. The main ingredients are not so surprising - four tomatoes and a bunch of dill with parsley. But it should be diluted with brine, merged with sauerkraut and diluted with an equal amount of water. If you feel sour - add a little sugar.
4. Cocktail "Variety". Here you need a bunch of very different greens: little sorrel, young nettle, spinach and dill. Five tomatoes and one cucumber are taken as a vegetable component. In the original, it is diluted with water, but, it seems, tomato juice will also be appropriate.
5. "Rocket fuel". Why a cocktail got such a name is hard to say, but it is very loved by those who are losing weight. Three glasses of grapes (any), three kiwis, a seedless and skinless orange, an aloe vera leaf, five to six lettuce, preferably red, are taken for two glasses of water for all of this.
6. Supergreen vegetable. For it, three celery stalks will be required, along a bunch - cilantro and spinach plus a cucumber. They don’t recommend replacing water (a glass) with something, but you can experiment.
7. Super green fruit. An intriguing combination: the "plebeian" greens (that is, edible weeds: nettle, quinoa, plantain), and exotic fruits - mango and banana (can be replaced with a pear).
   

Cocktail salads

In principle, their preparation is nothing new. And any ingredients, like a regular salad, can include this dish. The whole "trick" is the design and presentation. The rules are as follows:

1. All components are cut finely.
2. Products do not mix, but are laid out in layers.
3. Sauce, mayonnaise or dressing are poured onto the top of the hill. Mixing it will already be eater.
4. Served cocktail salad (vegetable, fruit, meat - it doesn’t matter) in a glass or glass. And it must be elegantly decorated!

Vegetable salad with plums

For one serving, straws are cut: fresh cucumber, apple and carrot (half of everything). Four small plums (seeds are extracted in advance) and half tomato are cut into thin slices. Products are stratified in this way: cucumber - carrot - apple - tomato. For refueling, two tablespoons of medium fat sour cream are mixed, a spoonful of lemon juice and powdered sugar. Plum slices are attached on top, along with artistically arranged branches of greenery.

Summer cocktail salad

For one glass you will need: bell pepper (for beauty it is better to take yellow) with the skin removed, pickled cucumber, a large tomato and two tablespoons of green peas. The calculation procedure is not of fundamental importance, the main thing is that the vegetable salad-cocktail ends with peas. It is seasoned with sour cream or salad dressing - as you prefer. Garnished with greens and, if desired, slices of olives.

Cabbage salad

Cabbage is crumbled with very thin straws, frayed with a small amount of salt and goes into the wine glass with the first layer. The second will be a salted cucumber, cut into strips. Above are apple cubes. Fans of piquancy can replace it with a pear, just choose it not too soft. Fresh carrots rub on a medium grater and spread on top of the fruit. Mayonnaise is used as a fill.

Do not be lazy, make it a habit to cook vegetable shakes for yourself and your family. Preparing vegetable smoothies, as you see, is not difficult, does not take much time - and the sea brings benefits and pleasures. And cocktail salads will delight your guests not only with taste, but also with their elegance.