Celery & Maca Power Drink
Total: 10 mins
Power up with this velvety green smoothie that blitzes refreshing cucumber and crunchy celery with sweet bananas, a nutty pinch of maca root powder and a zesty spritz of lime.
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Ingredients you'll need
- 2 bananas
- 1 cucumber
- 2 celery sticks
- 1 lime
- 1 tsp maca root powder
- 330ml brown rice drink
From your kitchen
- A couple of ice cubes
You'll need
- Blender
- Measuring jug
Step by step this way
- 1.
Peel and break the bananas into your blender. Roughly chop the cucumber. Trim the ends off the celery sticks, then chop them and add them to the blender, along with the cucumber.
- 2.
Halve the lime and squeeze in the juice from 1 half. Tip in 1 tsp maca root powder and pour in 330ml brown rice drink (save the rest for your other 2 smoothies). Add a few ice cubes, then whizz smooth, pour into 2 glasses and serve.
- Tip
You Maca Me So Happy
Maca root, sometimes called Peruvian ginseng, is native to the Andes Mountains and looks a bit like a long skinny turnip. In its dried, powdered form, it has an earthy nuttiness to it.
