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Rainbow chard, green, nectarine, mango banana smoothie. What a name for a smoothie eh?  I made this delicious bad boy after an impromptu trip to Whole Foods after exchangeable my shoes at Luke’s Locker. I needed some agave nectar and it just so happened, there was a Whole Foods right down the road. I ended up buying way more stuff than I intended to buy. Really the only thing I needed was the agave, but walked out with a canvas bag full of other stuff including a couple mangoes and some rainbow chard. I have used rainbow chard in past smoothies – it’s one of my favorite greens.

I have a feeling I am going to start eating a lot more mangoes since my roommate purchased the Titan peeler. This “As Seen on TV” kitchen utensil is seriously quite amazing! It only takes me seconds to peel one mango as opposed to minutes with a standard potato peeler. This will make dehydrating mangoes way easier too.

Anyway, without further or do, here is the Rainbow Green Monster Smoothie. I just renamed it on the spot; sounds much better huh?

The Recipe

• I ripe mango
• 1 ripe nectarine
• 1 ripe banana
• 2-4 TBSP of agave nectar
• 6 cubes of ice
• 3/4 – 1 cup of almond milk
• 1 giant rainbow chard leaf

Directions: blend that stuff up

RAW Food, Recipes, Smoothie Tuesday by OrganicClimber
agave nectar, banana, green, mango, nectarine, rainbow chard, smoothie, titan peeler, whole foods
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Experimenting with smoothies is always fun for me. I usually end up discovering my best smoothies when I run out of mixed berries, which is what I make my daily smoothies out of. Once I run out of those I am forced to get creative.  This particular smoothie was one of those moments. I had just been to Whole Foods but forgot to pick up frozen berries, but I still had a package of frozen mangoes in the freezer. During my trip to Whole Foods I had picked up a batch of rainbow chard.

Rainbow chard can be identified by it’s large fan like leaves. The base of the step is usually multicolored – pink, red, orange and yellow, the leaves are a dark green with red veins and stalks.  Rainbow chard wilts quickly though, so be sure you plan on using it within a couple of days if you decide to purchase some.  This particular chard is also sweeter than most, thus making it idea for smoothies. Unlike kale, you will barely notice it’s there.

The Recipe:

• Two large Rainbow Chard leaves (or your choice of greens)

• 5oz of Frozen Mango (half a 10oz package)

• 1 banana

• 3 TBSP of Almond Butter

• 4 TBSP of RAW Honey

• 1 Cup of Vanilla Hemp Seed Milk

• 4 TBSP of Hemp Seed Protein Powder (optional)

Combine all ingredients in a high speed blender (I use a Vita-Mix) and blend until smooth.

RAW Food, Smoothie Tuesday by OrganicClimber
almond butter, banna, green smoothie, hemp, honey, mango, mangoes, protein, rainbow chard, RAW, smoothie
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