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Mint Cucumber
The lightest of the green ones: cool, almost clear in flavour and with no creaminess to it at all.
5 minutes
1 glass, about 400 ml
Green smoothie
- vegan
For one large glass
Ingredients
- 1/2 cucumber
- 1 large handful of spinach leaves
- 10 fresh mint leaves
- 1/2 green apple, cored
- Juice of half a lime
- 200 ml cold water
Step by step
Method
- Dice the cucumber and apple roughly.
- Put the water, lime juice and spinach in the blender first.
- Add the cucumber, apple and mint and blend for 45 seconds.
- Drink cold, ideally straight away.
One tip
Add the mint with the apple, not before. Blended from the start it turns bitter.
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