Cauliflower and cashews make this savory blend creamy, with carrot, celery, and green onion providing vegetable flavor. Lemon and cumin sharpen the finish. It is closer in character to a chilled vegetable puree than to the sweet fruit smoothies elsewhere in the collection.
Healthy Smoothie Recipes
Savory Cauliflower Carrot Cashew Smoothie
Cauliflower and cashews make this savory blend creamy, with carrot, celery, and green onion providing vegetable flavor.
Prep: 5 minutesServings: 1
Base recipe: 1 serving; the full base batch
Vegan
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Measured ingredient amounts adjust with servings. “To taste” amounts and directions stay as written.
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 0.25 cup raw cashews
- 1 cup cauliflower florets, cooked and cooled, then frozen
- 0.5 cup carrots frozen
- 1 celery stalk
- 0.5 green onion
- 0.25 lemon peeled
- 0.125 teaspoon ground cumin
- 0.125 teaspoon sea salt, unrefined
- 0.125 teaspoon ground black pepper
Directions
- Pour the measured liquid into the blender. Add the softer prepared ingredients first, keeping the frozen pieces separated so they can move toward the blades instead of forming a solid block above them.
- Add the remaining edible ingredients, including the measured fruit, nuts, seeds, or spices listed for this recipe. Blend until evenly combined. Use the machine instructions to choose a suitable speed, and stop before checking texture or scraping the jug.
- Taste a small spoonful after blending. If the mixture is too thick to pour, add cold water one tablespoon at a time and blend briefly again. Divide the base batch into 1 serving and enjoy promptly.
Notes
Contains tree nuts. Prepared ingredients are required; additional cooking, cooling, freezing, brewing, or soaking time is excluded from the active prep estimate. Serving volume and nutrition totals are not measured.
Adapted from Jen Hansard at Simple Green Smoothies.
Tips and ingredient notes
Cook frozen cauliflower and carrots when their instructions require it, then chill. Start with a small green-onion portion. Measure the seasonings carefully, since strong savory flavors are difficult to remove once blended.
If packaged cauliflower requires cooking, follow those instructions before cooling it fully. Freeze the prepared portion for a colder result, or blend it chilled. Cooking, cooling, and freezing happen ahead of the stated active blending time rather than inside that short estimate.
Fresh carrot is easier to blend when grated or finely chopped. Packaged frozen carrot may require cooking before use; follow its instructions and cool it completely. Large hard pieces can remain noticeable even when the softer fruits around them have become smooth.
Ingredient health benefits
- Lemon provides vitamin C, used in normal collagen formation.
- Cashews contribute magnesium, used in normal muscle and nerve function.
Nutrition references: NIH: Vitamin C; NIH: Magnesium. These are ingredient contributions; nutrition per serving has not been calculated.
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Recipe adapted from Jen Hansard at Simple Green Smoothies. Article text and directions written for Healthy Smoothie Recipes. Supplement omissions and preparation changes mean source nutrition totals do not apply.
