Green smoothies recipes for beginners - TOP 10
Why make things more complicated than they are? You don't need a long list of exotic, sometimes hard-to-find ingredients to make a great-tasting green smoothie. We have compiled the top 10 recipes for beginners out of our repartoir. All recipes are vegan, gluten-free, lactose-free and industrial sugar-free.
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Green smoothies recipes for beginners at a glance
- Evergreen (tastes like: banana, apple, avocado, ginger)
- Strawberry Mouth (tastes like: strawberry, pineapple)
- Heavenly Raspberry (tastes like: raspberry, pineapple)
- Mamagold (tastes like: mango, passion fruit)
- Orange Om (tastes like orange, apricot, lemon)
- Rapunzel (tastes like: pear, lime)
- Sun in a glass (tastes like: orange, pineapple)
- Sweetheart (tastes like: celery, pineapple, orange)
- Violetta (tastes like: blueberry, banana)
- Cinnamon Star (tastes like: orange, cinnamon, ginger)
Green smoothies recipes for beginners
Our 10 Green Smoothies Recipes for Beginners are perfect for getting started in the world of green smoothies, no matter if it is for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Most creations get by with 5 ingredients plus water. Only our smoothie classic - the Evergreen - and the Cinnamon Star recipe contain more ingredients. At the same time, when selecting the recipes, we placed special emphasis on introducing you to as many different leafy green varieties and fruit flavors as possible. The berry recipes can also be prepared with frozen fruit - especially in winter. You can also try out the recipes with the leafy green alternatives mentioned.
Green smoothies recipe for beginners with banana, apple and avocado
Ingredients
- 1 handful of spinach alternatively: lamb's lettuce
- 1 apple with peel
- 1 banana peeled
- 1/4 avocado peeled, pitted
- 1/8 piece lemon with peel
- 1 juice of one orange
- 1 thumb ginger with peel
- 200 ml water
Instruction
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Wash ingredients, peel if necessary and cut into small pieces.
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First add the soft ingredients such as banana, avocado or mango to the container. Then add the remaining ingredients.
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Puree until a smooth, creamy consistency is reached - this only takes about 1 minute with a good high-speed blender.
Green smoothies recipe for beginners with strawberries
Ingredients
- 1 handful of radish greens alternative: spinach
- 1 stem of mint fresh, only the leaves, not the stem
- 1 handful of strawberries approx. 120g
- 1 slice of pineapple approx. 2 cm wide, peeled
- 1 banana peeled
- 150 ml of water
Instruction
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Wash ingredients, peel if necessary and cut into small pieces.
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First add the soft ingredients such as banana, avocado or mango to the container. Then add the remaining ingredients.
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Puree until a smooth, creamy consistency is reached - this only takes about 1 minute with a good high-speed blender.
Green smoothies recipe for beginners with raspberries
Ingredients
- 2 handful of spinach alternatively: lamb's lettuce
- 1 slice of pineapple approx. 2 cm wide, peeled
- 1 handful of raspberries approx. 70 g
- 1 banana peeled
- 200 ml water
Instruction
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Wash ingredients, peel if necessary and cut into small pieces.
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First add the soft ingredients such as banana, avocado or mango to the container. Then add the remaining ingredients.
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Puree until a smooth, creamy consistency is reached - this only takes about 1 minute with a good high-speed blender.
Green smoothies recipe for beginners with chard and mango
Ingredients
- 4 leaves chard without stalk - alternatively: 6 leaves beet
- 300 g frozen mango pieces peeled, seeded
- 1 banana peeled
- 1 passion fruit only the pulp
- 150 ml water
Instruction
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Wash ingredients, peel if necessary and cut into small pieces.
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First add the soft ingredients such as banana, avocado or mango to the container. Then add the remaining ingredients.
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Puree until a smooth, creamy consistency is reached - this only takes about 1 minute with a good high-speed blender.
Green smoothies recipe for beginners with apricot and orange
Ingredients
- 1 handful of wild herbs alternative: parsley
- 2 oranges peeled
- 5 apricots with peel & pitted
- 1 slice of lemon thin, with peel
- 1 banana peeled
- 150 ml water
Instruction
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Wash ingredients, peel if necessary and cut into small pieces.
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First add the soft ingredients such as banana, avocado or mango to the container. Then add the remaining ingredients.
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Puree until a smooth, creamy consistency is reached - this only takes about 1 minute with a good high-speed blender.
Green smoothies recipe for beginners with pear and grapes
Ingredients
- 1 handful of lamb's lettuce alternative: spinach
- 1 handful of grapes green
- 1 pear large, with peel
- 1 banana peeled
- juice of 1/2 lime
- a little lime zest
- 150 ml water
Instruction
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Wash ingredients, peel if necessary and cut into small pieces.
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First add the soft ingredients such as banana, avocado or mango to the container. Then add the remaining ingredients.
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Puree until a smooth, creamy consistency is reached - this only takes about 1 minute with a good high-speed blender.
Green smoothies recipe for beginners with orange and pineapple
Ingredients
- 1 heart romaine lettuce alternative: batavia lettuce
- 2 oranges peeled
- 1 slice of pineapple about 3 cm wide, peeled
- 100 ml water
Instruction
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Wash ingredients, peel if necessary and cut into small pieces.
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First add the soft ingredients such as banana, avocado or mango to the container. Then add the remaining ingredients.
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Puree until a smooth, creamy consistency is reached - this only takes about 1 minute with a good high-speed blender.
Green smoothies recipe for beginners with celery, orange and pineapple
Ingredients
- 2 stalks of celery with leaves
- 1 slice of pineapple about 3 cm wide, peeled
- 1 orange peeled
- 200 ml water
Instruction
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Wash ingredients, peel if necessary and cut into small pieces.
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First add the soft ingredients such as banana, avocado or mango to the container. Then add the remaining ingredients.
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Puree until a smooth, creamy consistency is reached - this only takes about 1 minute with a good high-speed blender.
Green smoothies recipe for beginners with blueberries
Ingredients
- 4 leaves chinese cabbage without stalk, alternatively: 1 heart chicory
- 80 g blueberries frozen
- 1 orange peeled
- 1 banana peeled
- 100 ml water
Instruction
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Wash ingredients, peel if necessary and cut into small pieces.
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First add the soft ingredients such as banana, avocado or mango to the container. Then add the remaining ingredients.
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Puree until a smooth, creamy consistency is reached - this only takes about 1 minute with a good high-speed blender.
Green smoothies recipe for beginners with Indian lettuce, orange, dates and cinnamon
Ingredients
- 2 handful of Indian lettuce alternative: spinach
- 2 orange peeled
- 1 apple with peel
- 1 date type: Medjool, pitted
- 1 thumb ginger with peel
- 1 pinch of cinnamon
- 100 ml of water
Instruction
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Wash ingredients, peel if necessary and cut into small pieces.
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First add the soft ingredients such as banana, avocado or mango to the container. Then add the remaining ingredients.
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Puree until a smooth, creamy consistency is reached - this only takes about 1 minute with a good high-speed blender.
Tip 1: If you blend for significantly longer than 90 seconds, add ice cubes or use ice cold water to keep the smoothie from heating up too much.
Tip 2: Our recipes sometimes use very fibrous leafy greens, such as wild herbs and parsley. With these ingredients, a normal kitchen blender quickly reaches its performance limit. Result: less creamy smoothies. We recommend - replace the fibrous ingredients with leafy greens that are easier to puree, such as baby spinach, lamb's lettuce or lettuce.
Have fun blending and enjoying!
Which recipe appeals to you the most? Which green smoothie did you like best?
Share your experiences and your favorite smoothies here.
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It's great that you want to try out our TOP 10 recipes for green smoothies. Please enter your email address in the registration box at the top of the page. You will then automatically receive an email with a link to download the recipe PDF.
Enjoy and savor the recipes,
Carla
Thank you very much for your comment. Wishing you a successful testing phase and we look forward to hearing which smoothie you liked the most.
Best regards,
Carla
Very delicious.
We can't wait to find out. Feel free to let us know which smoothie you liked the most.
Best regards,
Carla
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Greetings,
Petra
thank you so much for the lovely feedback on our smoothie recipes.
I completely understand your choice of favorite: Evergreen is just timeless and always a hit!
Best regards,
Carla
Enjoy and have fun trying them out!
Carla
when our recipes call for a slice of pineapple, do you mean the entire slice including the core? I'm a bit confused about that.
Best regards,
Marion
thank you for your question. When we mention a slice of pineapple, it does include the core. It's not a problem for a high-speed blender to handle it :)
Best regards,
Carla
Warm regards,
Marion
I am a member of a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) that produces regional and seasonal vegetables. I have been interested in green smoothies for a while now, but I haven't found a good approach yet. Mainly because the recipes often lack regional and seasonal fruits and vegetables. I find that quite unfortunate. Perhaps there could be a collection of green smoothie recipes that are based on our region and the current season? Because where am I supposed to get strawberries, apricots, etc. in winter? That is anything but sustainable.
I'm curious to see if there will be such a collection.
Best regards,
Evi
thank you for your comment. I completely understand your desire for regional and seasonal ingredients in green smoothies. In winter, the options for fruit ingredients are limited to apples and pears. While you can occasionally use them, it can become quite boring in terms of taste. Bananas work well as a sweetener in green smoothies, but they are not regional. Alternatively, you could consider enjoying green smoothies during the summer when there is a wider selection of seasonal and regional fruits available.
And every now and then, it's okay to make an exception and use non-local ingredients :)
Best regards,
Carla
By adding banana, pineapple, strawberries, and all the other "sweet stuff," the smoothie may taste better, but it also contains quite a bit of fruit sugar. I don't find that particularly helpful. And these ingredients are not really "green" either.
thank you for your comment. With our TOP 10 Green Smoothie Recipes for Beginners, the focus is on making the smoothies taste good and using as few ingredients as possible. We have found that it takes some time to get used to a higher green content in the smoothie.
And of course, you are right: the higher the leafy green content, the lower the fructose. Take our recipes as inspiration and adjust the fruit content to your liking.
Best regards,
Carla
just wash them well! Wild herb experts recommend gently cleaning the wild herbs even in up to 4 washes. And of course you can also add a pinch of baking soda.
Many greetings,
Carla
Still alive.
Many greetings,
Carla
As far as I remember, there is a maximum amount of spinach that should not be exceeded. How does it behave with small children? Are there recipes that are not suitable?
we drink about 700-1000 ml of green smoothie as a breakfast substitute. Accordingly, the recipes are intended for one serving per person. However, this is only a rough orientation. Just try a recipe and see how much of it you like to drink.
I don't know of an exact upper limit of spinach. Since spinach contains a lot of oxalic acid, you should not make green smoothies with only spinach as a leafy green, but vary as much as possible. You can find more info about this here.
Green smoothies and kids: I've been offering my daughter all my green creations since she was born. Of course she has likes and dislikes, but that is also very individual. Just try it out and offer different smoothies.
Love,
Carla
what is the best way to make a smoothie?
Here are a few recipe ideas for green smoothies: Green smoothies recipes for beginners - TOP 10
Have fun trying them out!
Carla
We have also already enjoyed the mushroom soup and tomato soup. Super tasty.
that makes us very happy - thank you for the nice recipe feedback!
Kind regards,
Carla
Thanks
that makes us very happy :)
All the best for you,
Carla
my favorite is of course Evergreen but also Mamagold is very tasty
Keep going I am curious about new recipes
thank you very much for the nice recipe feedback! Evergreen just lives up to its name again and again :)
Best regards,
Carla
thank you very much for the nice feedback on our recipes :)
Best regards,
Carla
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Love and enjoy our smoothie recipes.
Carla
thank you for your question.
I would always advise fresh spinach - simply tastes better and has more nutritional power. Just try it out - if you are satisfied with frozen spinach, then of course you can use it.
Of course you can also prepare the evergreen in the evening...
Love,
Carla
I will stick with it for a while to lose a little weight. I drink the smoothie with my evening meal. Hopefully that will be ok too.
Thanks for the great recipes and tips.
Regards, Claudia
thank you for your comment - how nice that you have discovered green smoothies for yourself.
Of course, you can also drink the smoothie as an evening meal. However, he can make quite awake in the evening, because he gives so much energy - so: Maybe not drink too late :)
Love,
Carla
Thank you
Thank you your Detlef
thank you very much for the nice recipe feedback - we are very happy that you like our smoothie creations so much. We make many of our recipes available as PDFs. To receive a download link by email, you would need to sign up in the appropriate sign-up box on the respective recipe page.
Love,
Carla
Thank you for your interest in our best green smoothies recipes. Please sign up in the signup box on our TOP 10 Recipes page and you will automatically receive an email with a download link of the recipes.
Have fun and enjoy them!
Carla
thank you for your question. Of course, you can do that well. But please keep the smoothies well chilled overnight.
Kind regards,
Carla
Thank you so much for these recipes. I make them in the morning for my daughter and me. It's great to start the day like this.
is there a cookbook for the Vitamix?
Best regards
Ursula
have a look here.
Best regards,
Carla
i'm glad you like our smoothie recipes. Please enter your email address in the sign-up box on the recipes page and we'll automatically send you a link to download the recipe PDF.
Have fun and enjoy trying them out,
Carla
thank you very much for your comment. Either omit the banana or replace with mango, peach or apricot in summer or sharan/kaki fruit in winter. Anything that is creamy and reasonably sweet.
If the fruit flavors don't fit, you could also add a date.
Love,
Carla
thank you very much for your comment. The bitter substances are at most balanced in taste, but are not lost. I do not know what your friend means by "bind".
The important thing is that your wild herb smoothie is good for you and tastes good!
Best regards,
Carla
thank you for your question. I would just leave the avocado out if you can't use it elsewhere. However, it's no problem at all to keep the rest of the avocado in the fridge for a day, use it the next day or combine it in a salad.
Have fun and enjoy trying it out,
Carla
Love,
Eva
how nice - we feel the same way!
Cheers,
Carla
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Have fun and enjoy it,
Carla
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Thank you for your comment - we're very pleased - especially that the Evergreen lived up to its name once again :)
I also really like Mamagold with mango and chard.
Warm regards,
Carla
We are delighted - truly an EVERGREEN! Such a great idea with the dates and the mint.
Best regards,
Carla
we drink between 700 to 1000 ml of smoothie in the morning as a substitute for breakfast - therefore, the quantities mentioned are intended for one person. However, of course, this is just a guideline and should be adjusted according to individual needs.
Best regards,
Carla
I just love green smoothies, just received the blender "Bianco Piano" from you and would like to start.
I would like to make delicious smoothies from endive, chard, spinach, and kale. Do you have any recipes with these ingredients?
Thank you very much
Regards, Ursula
have fun with the Bianco Piano! If you search for recipes on our site, you will find many combinations with the ingredients you mentioned. You can also easily replace the leafy greens with your favorites in our TOP10 recipes.
Love, Carla
Warm regards, Katja
thank you very much for the nice feedback on our recipes! :)
We actually recommend not to store green smoothies in the refrigerator for more than 24 hours. The loss of nutrients is simply too high. Apart from that, the smoothies also lose flavour.
Kind regards,
Carla
Carla
Bruno
here are a few recipes you can easily prepare at home:
- Oumpkin soup
- Creamy Tomato Soup: Vegan Recipe
- Cream of Mushroom Soup Recipe
I am curious which soup you like best.
Best regards,
Carla
LG Brigitte
nice to hear from you! The beauty of the green smoothie is, among other things, the simplicity – it can be prepared in no time, the blender can be cleaned in less than a minute.
I recommend the Evergreen — it's in the TOP10 recipes for beginners. This composition actually always lives up to its name and is perfect for starters. You can also quickly modify this recipe by, for example, replacing the apples with pears and the piece of lemon with a piece of lime.
We are happy to help you if you have any questions :)
All the best and enjoy your first smoothies!
Carla