Apple, Cucumber & Ginger Thickie

Prep: 10 mins

This thick, rich smoothie blends warming ginger with crisp apple, delicate cucumber and earthy spinach, then blitzes them with sweet bananas and nutty cashews for supreme creaminess.

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180 kcal
(per portion)

Ingredients you'll need

1 apple
½ cucumber
2 bananas
A thumb of ginger
35g cashews
50g baby leaf spinach

From your kitchen

250ml cold water
A few ice cubes

Step by step this way

1.
Quarter the apple, slice out the core and roughly chop it. Pop it in your blender. Roughly chop half the cucumber and add that too.
2.
Peel the bananas and break them into the blender. Peel and chop the ginger and add it too. Tip in the cashews and tuck in the spinach leaves as well.
3.
Add 250ml cold water and a few ice cubes. Blitz till smooth, trickling in a little more water if you think it needs it. Serve straight away.

Tip
A nice long soak
If you have time, soak the cashews overnight in a bowl of cold water, then drain them and add them to your smoothie following the recipe. Soaks them makes them easier to blend and may make them easier to digest.
Tip
Extra, extra
If you have a large blender you can use all the cucumber, although this well affect the nutritional information. Alternatively, it will keep well in the fridge for a couple of days. Try making smacked cucumbers for a fiery side dish to go with stir fries. Bash the cucumber with the flat of your knife till it is a little bashed looking, then slice it into 1cm-thcik slices Pop in a bowl with 2 tsp sea salt, stir to mix and set aside for 10 mins. Mix together 3 chopped garlic cloves, 1/2 tbsp sugar, 1 tso tamari, 2 tsp brown rice vinegar and 1 tbsp chilli oil. Drain the cucumber, stir in the sauce ingredients and serve.

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