Beet Red Smoothie

Prep Time: 5

Total Time: 5

Servings: serving

Course: Breakfast, Snack

Author: Heather Nicholds

Ingredients

1/2 cup cooked quinoa
1 cup beet, cooked
1/2 avocado
1/2 cup spinach
2 Tbsp fresh mint
1/2 lime
2 Tbsp nut/seed butter

Instructions

Puree everything in a blender until smooth, adding water as you want or need. The cooked beets and quinoa should give a heartiness to this smoothie, and a balance to all the fruit-based ones.

Notes

Unless you have a high-powered blender, this will have some texture to it. I think of it kind of like bubble tea. Be sure to used chilled quinoa, from the batch cooked earlier this week, as warm quinoa doesn’t work too nicely in a smoothie.

The cooked beets and quinoa give a heartiness to this smoothie, and the avocado is a balance to fruit-based smoothies. You can also feel free to have this meal as a salad rather than blending it into a smoothie, with a squeeze of lime juice for dressing.

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