Since The Green Dinosaur Smoothie was so popular, I decided to share another family favorite around here. Here it is…Beetalicious…
I hope I don’t scare some of you off with the addition of raw beets into this one, but I assure you this is fabulous. It’s rich, creamy and what an amazing color it turns out to be! WOW! Oh yeah, if you can believe it, my three year old goes crazy over this one. Here are the health benefits once again to turn you into a beet lover. Beets provide antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and detoxification support. Beets help guard the body against heart disease and certain cancers. Beets are a good source of folic acid and potassium. Beets also provide Vitamins A and C, calcium and iron, and add fiber to the diet. Okay though, if you really and truly can’t handle the beets, just omit and throw something else in like raw baby spinach, but maybe you should try it just once. Come on, try it…take The Beetalicious Challenge. After you try it, come back and post…Let let me know what you think!
The Beetalicious Smoothie
Serves 2
Ingredients:
5 oz unsweetened almond milk
5 oz fresh squeezed clementine or orange juice
1/2-1 cup peeled and shredded raw beets (start out with 1/2 cup to see how it tastes, you can always add more the next time you make it)
1/2 cup frozen mango chunks
1/2 cup frozen raspberries
1/2 cup fresh pineapple chunks
1/2 cup fresh sliced strawberries
1 banana
1/2 an avocado
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 tbsp flax seeds
Directions:
Combine all ingredients in a blender. Puree until smooth and serve.
Enjoy! YUM!
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Seems yummy!I'm going to add beets to my green smoothie and see what happens. Thanks for the idea!
This sounds fantastic! I'm a smoothie-every-morning type of girl and I can't wait to try this. I was getting tired of kale so this is a great alternative and it's so pretty!
This sounds so intriguing. I can't wait to try!
Yesh! Gonna try this soon.
Oh yum!! It sounds wonderful, and it's so such a pretty pink!! I'll bookmark it and try it this spring! 🙂
Okay – I have to try this. Not only am I on a beet kick, I'm really on a raw juice kick.
I just made this. I forgot to buy pineapples so I made it without them and it's pretty good. Thanks for the recipe! 🙂
I put fresh pear in this today and it was even yummier!
This looks wonderful! I just found your blog and so happy I did, it is fantastic and have enjoyed reading it! I , also, was inspired by joel fuhrman. I will definitely give this smoothie a try (with pear!) Cheers, Nina
thanks nina and welcome! I'm loving this smoothie and the fresh pear addition makes it even yummier! enjoy it! =)
I just juiced raw beets for the first time yesterday and loved them! This looks like a great recipe!
I haven't tried this recipe (yet) but I had to say what a beautiful photo this is. The pictures alone make me want to try every recipe on your site.
I'm going to have to try this, without the avocado (unfortunately, I have to severely limit this yummy food). I try to incorporate a small amount of beet into every smoothie for digestive health and this looks so yummy! Can't wait to try it!
Wow, this is awesome!
Today I started a 2 week raw vegan "cleanse", and I'm looking forward to having this for breakfast tomorrow!
I love your blog Vegan Mama!
Tried this today and loved it.
Awesome Heather 🙂 you should try my new green power smoothies next it’s also super yummy 🙂 I appreciate the comment thank you!
xoxo
Jen 🙂
I just featured this on my blog, it’ll be up early tomorrow morning. Yum! Thanks for sharing.
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awesome Becky, looking fwd to checking it out. =)
Jen
This looks amazing!
I’m going to try it soon, I haven’t tried beets in a smoothie yet.
Lately I’ve been making green monster smoothies from another vegan blog and I’m surprised how delicious they are (you can’t taste the greens at all underneath the blueberries or pineapple or whatever)
Just start out with a small amount of beets and go from there, too much can be overpowering….but I love beets and love this smoothie!
Jen