Watermelon smoothies are refreshing and cool—an ideal treat for the hot summer day. They are typically made with a little lime juice, and basil or mint, but there are much more smoothie-like versions that involve yogurt and milk. The good chunk is that you could utilize any kind of milk for the more vegan-friendly drinking!
Making a Refreshing Watermelon Smoothie
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Cut out sufficient watermelon to fill up 2 cups.
You could do this by cutting out a watermelon into cubes and then eliminating the rind. You could also cut the watermelon in half, and then scoop out the flesh utilizing a melon scoop or coffee scoop.
Put a watermelon into the blender.
For the more refreshing smoothie, consider adding 2 cups of 1 tablespoon of lime juice and strawberries and. You could utilize frozen or fresh strawberries; the frozen strawberries would give you a colder, thicker drink.
Add on the freshened basil or mint leaves.
Both would lend the watermelon the refreshing flavor. Making certain that you chop them fine is foremost to support them to blend better.
Top it off with a few agave honey or nectar.
If the watermelon you are utilizing is already pretty sweet, or if you are not fond of overly-cute drinks, you could omit this.
Drop in 4 to 3 ice cubes for necessary extra thickness.
If you add on frozen strawberries, then you might not be required to add the ice.
Closing the blender, and mixing until smooth.
Keep blended until the ice has all everything combined and broken up. If the smoothie does not blend very well, pause the blender, and utilize a rubber spatula to push some unblend mixture down the sides.
Pour the smoothie into one or two tall glasses and serve.
For the extra touch, garnishing each smoothie with a tiny watermelon, a mint/basil leaf or slice.
Making a Creamy Watermelon Smoothie
Cut sufficient watermelon to fill 2 cups.
You could do this by cutting the watermelon into cubes and eliminating the rind. You could also simply cut the watermelon in half, and then scoop the flesh out with the coffee scoop or melon scoop.
Add the watermelon to the blender and top it off with few milk.
You could utilize usual cow’s milk or another kind of milk, such as soy, almond, and coconut.
Add on a few agave nectar or honey, if required.
If the watermelon is pretty, very sweet, or if you just do not have a sweet tooth, you could omit the honey or nectar.
Drop in 10 or 5 ice cubes.
The more ice you add on, the smoother, the thicker it becomes. If you do not need a smoothie to get watered down, use ice cubes made from frozen water instead of frozen milk.
Close the pulse and blender until everything is smoothened.
The ice must be all broken up and the ingredients even mixed together. If the smoothie does not blend evenly, pause the blender, and utilize a rubber spatula to scrape some unblended smoothie down the sides and towards the blender bottom.
Pour the smoothie into one or two tall glasses and serve instantly.
You could drink it as is, or garnish it with the swirl of agave honey or nectar. You could add a tiny watermelon wedge to the edge of every glass for the fancy touch instead.
Make a Creamy Strawberry-Watermelon Smoothie
Cut out sufficient watermelon to fill 2 cups.
You could do this by cutting a watermelon into cubes and then eliminating the rind. You could also cut the watermelon in half, and then scooping out the flesh utilized a coffee scoop or melon scoop.
Adding the strawberries and watermelon to the blender.
You could utilize frozen or fresh strawberries. If you utilize frozen strawberries, the smoothie would be thicker and cold than if you just utilized freshened strawberries. If you select to utilize fresh strawberries, be certain to chop off the stems foremost.
Add on the Greek yogurt.
Utilize plain yogurt if you love the smoothie to be less sweet, and vanilla yogurt if you love it to be much more sweet. You could utilize any yogurt fat-percentage you want: non-fat, full-fat 2%.
Pour in the milk.
You could apply any kind of milk, be it cow’s, soy, almond, coconut. An almond-coconut blend is suggested, however.
Top it off with a few agave honey or nectar, if required.
If the watermelon you are utilizing is already pretty sweet (and you add on in the vanilla yogurt) then you might not require the honey or nectar.
Finish it off with certain ice.
If you utilized frozen strawberries, you might not require the ice cubes full—one or two probably be plenty! If you utilized freshened strawberries, however, you might need to add all the ice in.
Close up the blender, and blend until smooth.
Keep blending until the ice is all broken up, and the yogurt, milk, watermelon, and strawberries are all even mixed together. You must not see any clumps, lumps, swirls or streaks.
Pour the smoothie into 2 tall glasses, and serve instantly.
If you’d live to get fancy, garnishing every glass with a strawberry or watermelon slice on the rim.
