Red and Black Currant Smoothie Recipes

Blackcurrant smoothie is a thick, tasty drink. Chopped berries are mixed with various fruits, yogurt, ice cream, ice. This is a delicious and healthy dessert. He is an integral part of a healthy diet. Smoothies are easy to make at home.

Useful properties of currant smoothie

All nutritional properties of currants are preserved in the drink. The berry helps to strengthen the immune system, improves the functioning of the stomach and intestines, and supplies the body with the necessary vitamins and mineral salts. Vegetable fiber promotes the elimination of toxins and stimulates intestinal peristalsis.

For the preparation of the drink, fresh and frozen berries, low-fat kefir, milk, ice cream, yogurt or cottage cheese are used. Consume it right away to get the most benefit. The berry mix can replace a light snack, breakfast or dinner. It is especially useful for those who want to lose weight, go in for sports, and "sit" on various cleansing diets.

Currant smoothie recipes

So much drink is prepared at a time so that it can be drunk right away. For those who are losing weight and counting calories, nutritionists advise eating smoothies with a teaspoon. This simple trick will allow the body to feel full from a small portion of crushed berries.

A simple cooking method involves using a blender. At the same time, the seeds and berry peels are not crushed, but they are very useful for the body, therefore it is not recommended to filter the drink through a sieve.

Before cooking, the berries are prepared. They are washed and dried on a clean napkin. For a frozen blackcurrant smoothie, thaw the berry lightly until chopped.

Smoothie with strawberries and currants

Components:

• strawberries - 1 tbsp.;
• black currant - 130 g;
• oatmeal - 2-3 tbsp. l .;
• sugar - 1 tbsp. l .;
• yogurt - 2 tbsp. l.

In a blender, berries are chopped, yogurt and sugar are added. Mix with oatmeal before serving. Decorate the smoothie with strawberries, black currants and oatmeal.

Smoothie with currants and banana

Recipe components:

• bananas - 1 pc.;
• black currant - 80 g
• low-fat kefir - 150 ml;
• vanilla essence - 2-3 drops;
• walnut - 20 g.

For a drink, take an overripe, very sweet banana, peel it from the skin, and break it into pieces. Using a manual or automatic blender, grind the berries and banana, then pour in kefir, add vanillin if desired, and beat again.

Walnuts (kernels) are fried until golden brown in a pan. Decorate the finished banana currant smoothie with nuts and banana slices.

Blackcurrant smoothie with milk

Components:

• berries - 130 g (1 tbsp.);
• low-fat cottage cheese - 2 tbsp. l .;
• milk - 100 ml;
• kefir - 150 ml;
• lemon zest - 0.5 tsp;
• honey - 30 g.

Take natural, unsweetened, honey - preferably floral, baby curd with vanilla or raisins. At the beginning, the currant mass is interrupted, then honey, zest, milk, kefir and cottage cheese are added. Beat again until foamy.

This hearty berry dessert can easily replace breakfast.For those who are not on a diet, you can drink it with chocolate waffles.

Blackcurrant and apple smoothie

Ingredients:

• sweet apples - 150 g;
• berries - 2/3 tbsp.
• walnut kernel - 80 g;
• sweet apple juice - 150 ml.

Kernels can be lightly fried in a skillet to enhance their flavor and aroma. Beat the berry mass with peeled and seeds, chopped apple and nuts. Add juice, you can put a little honey. Whisk and pour into a glass.

Blackcurrant and ice cream smoothie

Components:

• berries - 70 g;
• sugar - 2 tbsp. l .;
• kefir - 80 ml;
• ice cream - 100 g.

Sugar is added to the currant mass, chopped in a blender, and whipped. Then put ice cream and kefir, mix everything. If you do not like currant pits and peels, and it is impossible to grind them in the usual way, pass the mass through a sieve.

Pour the drink into a glass, put a few berries on top for beauty.

Currant and raspberry smoothie

Components:

• raspberries - 80 g;
• black currant - 80 g;
• milk - 200 ml;
• yogurt - 100 ml.;
• icing sugar - 20 g;
• sunflower seeds - 10 g.

Dry, clean berries, without stems and tails, beat with powdered sugar. For sweetness, you can use a low-calorie sweetener or regular sugar instead of the powder. Peeled and toasted sunflower seeds will serve as a decoration and a pleasant addition to the taste, they can be slightly crushed.

Milk and yogurt are added to the mixture, whipped again, sprinkled with sunflower seeds, and decorated with whole raspberries.

Smoothie with currants and mint

Components:

• berries - 130 g;
• honey - 2 tbsp. l. ;
• orange juice - 100 ml;
• mint - 2-3 branches;
• natural yogurt - 200 ml.

Washed and dried berries are interrupted in a blender with honey and chopped mint. Add juice and yogurt, beat again.

As a decoration, mint leaves and a few berries are placed on top of the dessert poured into a glass.

Smoothie with currants and gooseberries

Ingredients:

• sweet gooseberries - 80 g;
• pasteurized milk - 100 ml.;
• currant - 80 g;
• yogurt - 150 ml;
• sugar - 20 g.

Prepared berries, without tails and twigs, are crushed with granulated sugar. Milk and natural unsweetened yogurt are added.

The finished drink is decorated with gooseberries cut in half.

Blackcurrant and pear smoothie

Components:

• juicy pear - 100 g;
• currant - 1 tbsp.;
• kefir - 250 ml;
• flower honey - 1 tbsp. l .;
• lemon zest - 0.5 tsp.

The pear is peeled and seeds removed, cut and sent to the blender bowl along with currants and honey. Kefir with a fat content of 2.5% and lemon zest are added to the crushed mass, beat well again.

Decorate the drink with a lemon wedge, worn on the edge of the glass.

Currant and pineapple smoothie

Ingredients:

• pineapple - 120 g;
• currants - 1 tbsp.;
• yogurt - 150 ml;
• lemon zest to taste;
• flower honey - 2-3 tsp;
• sesame seeds - a pinch

Cut fresh pineapple without peel into pieces, grind with berry mass. Low-fat natural yogurt, honey, lemon zest are added for flavor, everything is interrupted again until foam forms.

Pour the drink into a cup and sprinkle with ground white sesame seeds. Decorate with pineapple slices.

Black and red currant smoothie

Products:

• red currant - 80 g;
• black currant - 80 g;
• yogurt - 200 ml;
• a few ice cubes;
• honey –3 tsp.

The berries freed from the twigs are washed, dried, crushed. Honey and yogurt are also sent to the blender bowl. Beat everything, adding ice cubes if desired.

A cool, aromatic smoothie is garnished with red currants, and mint leaves can be added to the recipe.

Smoothie with red currants and peaches

Components:

• ripe peaches - 1 pc.;
• black currant - 0.5 tbsp.;
• yogurt - 1 tbsp.;
• flax seeds - 2 tbsp. l .;
• icing sugar or other sweetener - 1 tbsp l.

Peach peeled, cut into pieces. In a blender, mix black currants, peaches, adding any sweetener if desired. Pour in yogurt, beat everything until smooth.

Sprinkle the finished drink with chopped flax seeds, decorate, if desired, with cubes of peach pulp and a few berries.

Calorie content of currant smoothie

You can calculate the calorie content of a dessert by knowing what components are included in the recipe. This is pretty easy to do. For example, 100 g of black currant is about 45 kcal, the same amount of calories is contained in red. Slightly more nutritious are sweet fruits like pineapple and banana. One banana contains about 100 kcal, 100 g of pineapple contains a little more than 50 kcal.

Natural unsweetened yogurt is a rather high-calorie product - it contains 78 kcal. For milk and kefir, this figure is lower - 64 kcal and 53 kcal, respectively. To find out the total energy value of the dessert, add up all the components that make up it. For example, for a blackcurrant banana smoothie:

• banana - 1 pc. = 100 kcal;
• berries - 2/3 tbsp. (80 g) = 36 kcal;
• low-fat kefir - 150 ml = 80 kcal;
• vanilla sugar on the tip of a knife;
• walnuts - 1 tbsp l. = 47cal

We get the total nutritional value of the prepared dessert - 263 kcal. The mass of a banana and currant smoothie is about 340 g, so 100 g of dessert will have a calorie content of about 78 kcal.

For those who follow a diet and want to lose weight, it is better not to add sugar and honey to currant smoothie recipes. These are high-calorie foods. 1 tbsp. l. sugar contains about 100 kcal.

Conclusion

Blackcurrant smoothie is a healthy and tasty dessert for those who want to lead a healthy lifestyle. Pounded berries with yogurt or kefir will give you a boost of vivacity and great well-being at the beginning of the day. If you do not add sugar to the drink, its calorie content is low enough for this dish to become a full-fledged component of a weight loss diet.

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