"Drinking the Green" - Orange Banana Rocket Smoothie

Most smoothies have a juice as a base ingredient. Juicing is a process that removes most and sometimes even all of the fiber. Hence, these smoothies are not 100% HiFi - they contain the fruit sugar, but not the fiber that regulates and slows down its uptake.

In this recipe, I create a 100% HiFi smoothie by blending the whole (peeled) oranges, instead of pressing or juicing them. Hifi orange smoothies, which are already nice refreshing drinks on their own contain (in contrast to pre-packed or even freshly pressed orange juice) all the insoluble fiber of the orange. Insoluble fiber regulates your blood-sugar level, and cleanses your colon.

As a side note: For leafy greens, it is particularly important to buy organic ones (if you can afford it), because they have a very high surface to weight ratio, so the non-organic ones are likely to be loaded with pesticides.

You need:
- a blender
- 400ml of water (or more if you want your smoothie to be more liquid)
- 3 (medium-size) oranges, peeled.
- 70g organic wild rocket
- 5 ripe bananas

You do:
If you have a high powered blender, you can just throw all ingredients in there and blend them. If you have a cheaper blender, I recommend the following procedure:
Put the oranges into the blender with about 200ml of the water and blend until smooth. Add the organic rocket and blend until smooth. Add the bananas and the rest of the water and blend until smooth. I usually add my daily dose of B12 in the end and blend it in for like a second.

Green smoothies are so much a part of my daily life that I dedicated a series of artworks to them.

Enjoy,
Michael