Smoothie Recipe: Lava 1.0

One of my coworkers, a wonderful person that I really care for and consider a friend in the true sense, got me a little present for my birthday; a book on smoothies. A smoothie is a blended and sweet beverage made from fresh fruit. An urban legend pretends that there is no smoothie without milk or yogurt. Ain't true Ma'm!

I decided to give it a shot this week-end during the visit of nobz, a DocIsland fellow, and his family.

I started with a smoothie called Breakfast Bracer (mango, banana and grapefruit, two each) which was really good. I followed the recipe almost faithfully. I just added a bit of cinnamon to the mix. And then my embryonic cuisine creativity gears kicked in and I decided to experiment. After two interations, I "created" Lava 1.0. The recipe is pretty simple and you can do it even if your cuisine skills are near or below zero.

For 1 liter of Lava smoothie juice, you need the following ingredients:

• 500gr of strawberry
• 125gr of raspberry
• 3 bananas
• 7 juicy oranges (with 2 blood oranges if possible)

Wash everything (save for the bananas of course), cut the strawberries and the bananas in small pieces, cut the oranges in 8 parts. For each part, remove the pips if any and the attached skin on the inside. Take a sharp, small knife and separate the part from the external skin. Make sure there is no skin attached to the external surface of the orange part. Throw everything in a blender. You don't need to add sugar or whatever, Just make sure you select premium fruits. Put in the fridge for half an hour, or if you want to save as much vitamins as possible, add ice and you are done!

I called this smoothie Lava as a tribute to the coworker who got me the book that sparked the creativity gears. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did and if you have any suggestions for enhancements (that's why there is a version number attached to the smoothie recipe's name) please let me know.