Basic Fruit Smoothie

Recipe By STARGIRL577
Rating
Published Sep 13th
Prep 10m Cook 5m Additional - Ready In 15m
Servings 4 servings Calories 117.7

This is a great smoothie consisting of fruit, fruit juice and ice. I like to use whatever fresh fruits I crave that day. Any kind of berry, mangos, papayas, kiwi fruit, et cetera make a great smoothie. Experiment with your favorites!

Recipe Ingredients

  • 1 quart strawberries, hulled
  • 1 banana, broken into chunks
  • 2 peaches
  • 1 cup orange-peach-mango juice
  • 2 cups ice

Cooking Directions

  1. 1 In a blender, combine strawberries, banana and peaches. Blend until fruit is pureed. Blend in the juice. Add ice and blend to desired consistency. Pour into glasses and serve.

Nutrition Facts

  • Calories 117.7
  • Carbohydrate 28.5 g
  • Fat 0.6 g
  • Fiber 3.8 g
  • Protein 1.6 g
  • Saturated Fat 0.1 g
  • Sodium 16.2 mg
  • Sugar 19.6 g

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Reviews

  1. Darbie Esther Mar 11, 2006 11:03 PM
    As the name states, it's a BASIC recipe. I hate seeing people lower a recipe's rating because they don't know how to cook. This recipe is perfect as a starting point to alter to one's tastes. Try different fruits, different juices, different amounts of everything to your taste. Another alternative is to add vanilla flavored - Read more ...
  2. Steve Miller Aug 18, 2005 05:09 AM
    This recipe is a nice starting point... it's got a good balance between ice fruit and juice. I used 1 peach 1/2 quart of strawberries 1 small banana 1/2 cup of orange pineapple juice and a handful of ice. It turned out well!
  3. LHALLOW Jan 5, 2005 07:18 PM
    I've been making them with blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, a banana and apple juice and it is stiff competition for my favorite juice bars 'banana berry' flavor!
  4. DREGINEK Dec 8, 2003 01:29 AM
    We loved this!! I used half a can of pineapple chunks and its juice instead of peaches and just plain orange juice instead of the mango-orange juice(didn't have any of either ingrediant on hand). Will make many mornings to come. And this is very "basic," you can add/subtract fruits you prefer or have around the - Read more ...
  5. ISSIS Dec 8, 2003 01:29 AM
    We enjoyed trying your basic smoothie recipe in different ways. The first time we made it with tropical fruits, papaya, mango, canned and orange juice. Other times we just used what we had around the house...which is usually ripe bananas and strawberries, our family likes to add a couple of teaspoons of vanilla and we - Read more ...
  6. COOKINGNEWBIE Dec 8, 2003 01:29 AM
    Only O.K. It just tasted like a lot of fruit blended together. Not very smooth not very sweet. Will look for another smoothie recipe next time.
  7. ARKBUCKS Dec 8, 2003 01:29 AM
    Delicious recipe! We scaled it down to 2 servings and used frozen strawberries & bananas orange juice and a 4oz can of peaches in heavy syrup. We left out the ice. We will make this again.
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