Green Summer Smoothie

Ingredients for 2 servings:

• 1 cup kohlrabi, fresh, the leaves
• 1 cup dead nettle, the leaves, fresh
• ½ cup water
• 1 cup apple juice, preferably cloudy
• 1 cup currants, red or white
• 1 cup of melon(s), (Galia melon)
• 1 large banana(s), ripe, frozen
• ½ tsp linseed oil

Instructions

Working time approx. 10 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 4 minutes; Total time approx. 14 minutes

Currant – Galia melon – banana – kohlrabi green – dead nettle

I use a 250 ml coffee mug as a measuring unit; it’s quick and there’s not so much to clean up afterwards. First, pick the dead nettle leaves from the stems and stuff them neatly into the mug until you can’t fit any more. If you can’t get to the dead nettles you can of course use 1 mug of spinach. Remove the stems from the kohlrabi leaves, i.e. separate the leaves to the right and left of the stem and then chop them up and stuff them into the mug. Then blend them together with the water and apple juice until no more leaf pieces are visible. If you like your smoothie sweet, you can also add apple juice. Add the linseed oil; this is important so that the vitamins can be absorbed by the body. Then add the diced Galia melon, without seeds and peel, the currants and the banana and blend.