Try Hot Smoothies For The Winter Months

When the temperatures begin to drop, cold shakes are no longer so appealing, but if you like yourself and they make you feel good, there is a solution to continue your good habit: winter smoothies that warm you inside and are also satisfying.

What do winter smoothies bring you?

The shakes provide you with many vitamins, minerals, antioxidant phytochemicals, and fiber. They contribute to health due to their nutritional contribution, reinforce defenses against viruses and bacteria, and have cleansing properties. They are ideal to start the day well, especially if you do sports.

An advantage of smoothies is that, since the ingredients are crushed, the assimilation of the nutrients is very effective. And when taken hot it gives you a feeling of comfort, ideal to start the day as breakfast or to end it as dinner.

What a difference a winter smoothie

Of course, you can also drink your favorite cold smoothies in winter, but you may not find some ingredients. If you prepared them with summer fruits, you could only get them frozen or imported.

You can use frozen varieties without any problem, but you must be careful with imported fruits and vegetables.

In general, if they are not of ecological quality, they can contain significant amounts of pesticides and may never fully mature because they have been collected too early to withstand travel. In addition, they are not sustainable food due to the great environmental impact that their transport and conservation entails.

The winter smoothie is not about heating a summer smoothie, because the flavor would be lost and many vitamins and phytochemicals would disappear. The difference is that hot liquid bases are used in winter shakes.

The base of your winter smoothie can be an infusion or a vegetable milk. Then, you simply have to mix your base with autumn vegetables and seasonal fruits and integrate everything well.

Do not heat the base too much because the vitamins in the vegetables and fruits will also be destroyed. If you want to use frozen vegetables or fruits, let them thaw first, and don’t eat them until they are at room temperature.

Here’s how to make a winter smoothie

When you have decided on a base, you heat it to an ideal temperature for drinking. Meanwhile, for example, you can use the most suitable vegetables and fruits for your smoothie:

• The kale, kale and spinach are excellent ingredients for the rich shakes winter.
• The apples and citrus fruits are in season and are ideal for sweet milkshakes.
• If you want it to be even more wintery, you can add walnut or nut butter and spices like cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, vanilla, anise, and ginger to the vitamin drink.
• Put your hot base, fruits, vegetables, nuts and spices in the blender and mix everything. Once it is well crushed, consume it immediately.

Winter smoothie recipes

You can try and add whatever you want and create your own recipe. Keep in mind that all the fruits and vegetables that you use for your winter smoothie must be at room temperature, so as not to cool the whole. Here are a few recipes to inspire you:

Tangerine and cashew smoothie

Ingredients for one serving:

• 4 tangerines
• 40 g raw cashews
• 100 g baby spinach
• 1 banana
• Cinnamon and cardamom (to taste)
• Hot base: 100 ml of cashew milk

Orange, carrot and ginger smmothie

Ingredients for one serving:

• 2 oranges
• 3 yellow carrots
• 1 cm of piece of peeled ginger
• Anise
• Hot base: 100 ml of herbal infusion (for example, ginger or fennel)

Winter apple smoothie

Ingredients for one serving:

• 1 apple
• 1 pear
• 1 teaspoon raisins
• 1 teaspoon honey or maple syrup
• 20 g walnuts
• Cinnamon to taste
• Warm base: 100 ml of almond milk

Berry Oatmeal Smoothie

Ingredients for one serving:

• 200 g of red fruit mix (completely thawed and at room temperature)
• 2 tablespoons fine oats
• 1 teaspoon agave syrup
• Vanilla and cinnamon to taste
• Warm base: 100 ml oat milk