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Healthy Blender Recipes - Blender Salad in a Vitamix
Hi you guys, its Laura here from www.womens-fitness-tips.com, some of you might know that I'm a huge fan
of blender salads. I like to put my produce in a blender, blend it and drink it. It's
a great way to have your vitamins on the go. Well, recently I splurged and bought myself
a Vitamix and I'm so happy I did. It's a phenomenal machine and it's a great thing to have if
you like to make blender salads, protein smoothies, or you can cook a lot of things in the Vitamix.
The Vitamix is really cool because what the Vitamix does is it breaks open the cell walls
of the produces and it releases more nutrients, more vitamins, more minerals and more antioxidants
from the foods. So it gives you the benefit of juicing, but it keeps all the fiber and
the pulp in which I really like to have. So, let me show you how to make my blender salad
in a Vitamix. It's a little bit different how you have to layer it so that things don't
get caught in the blade. So, there are two cups of water in here already, and I'm going
to use the same seven ingredients that I've talked about before. You can switch it up
though! I just happen to like this combination a lot. So I have two cups of spinach here.
Put that in first. You put the lighter ingredients in first. Then I have two stalks of kale.
I just broke them in half, and just "smush" those in. One whole tomato. One Persian cucumber,
I just cut in half. You can also use a half of a whole cucumber if you want to, you don't
have to use a Persian cucumber. So, now I'll start processing this, and I'll add the other
ingredients after. So, you just use the tamper to push it down and you start on variable
1 and work your way up. Then you start processing. So now I'm going to put the other ingredients
in and mix them in. Now I'll put in celery, two stalks, a lemon peeled and a beet cut
in half. The beet is the hardest thing to process so I put that in last. Then do the
same thing, start on Variable 1 and work your way up. Tamper the ingredients down. Now I'm
going to turn it on high and let it process for like 30 seconds so that it gets really
juicy and then I'll be back. So there you have it. I processed this for like 30 seconds
and it makes this wonderful blender salad. I then take it in these "to go" cups because
like to tote it around with me when I'm running around. If you like it colder, you can add
a little ice to it if you want to. Also, if you want to make it a little bit "sweeter"
what's really good is a half an apple. You can use a half a gala apple or half a green
apple if you want to. You can play around with the ingredients to see what you like.
It's really a great way to add a lot of extra fiber to your diet, not to mention all the
vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that you're getting. So try the blender salad. If you
can, get yourself a Vitamix, I highly recommend getting one!