Apple Cocktail Recipes
Apple smoothies are not only healthy, but also delicious. By adding ice cream and sweeteners to fruits, you can turn the drink into a full-fledged dessert, and by mixing it with vegetables and herbs, you can get a healthy and satisfying snack.
Benefit and harm
Apples, which are the main component of apple smoothies, have many useful properties:
- due to the content of fiber, fruits have a beneficial effect on the state of the digestive system;
- apple juice also has a beneficial effect on immunity;
- cleanses the body of toxins;
- increases the stability of the nervous system;
- speeds up metabolic processes.
Apple smoothies can harm the body only if consumed in excess.
In addition, you should not drink the drink for people with chronic gastritis, with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and allergies to the components used.
Basic cooking rules
Both sweet and sour fruits will work to make a delicious apple smoothie, but depending on the variety, you will need to vary the amount of additional sweetener. Sugar for an apple drink, you can take the usual refined, but using the brown variety will give the dessert a nice caramel flavor. Healthy alternatives to sugar are stevia and honey.
Best Recipes
Despite the large number of different recipes for apple smoothies, they are all prepared according to approximately the same scheme using a blender, stationary or submersible.
With milk
A delicious and satisfying milk-apple cocktail tastes a bit like ice cream, so young children really like it. In the summer, to create an additional refreshing effect, it is recommended to add ice cubes and fresh mint leaves to the drink. In winter, it is better not to use ice cream, but to replace it with cool milk. In order to cook at home a classic variation of this milkshake, you will need:
- one large apple;
- 250 milliliters of cool milk;
- one and a half tablespoons of sugar;
- a pinch of cinnamon powder.
The fruit is peeled, then cut into quarters, freed from seeds and core. Then it is better to grind the fruit into smaller pieces.
Fruits are placed in a blender and covered with sugar, an alternative to which can be honey. Optionally, other sweeteners, such as sweet maple syrup, are added at this stage. Cool milk is immediately poured into the container. The components are ground for a couple of minutes at maximum mode. The finished cocktail is poured into glasses and sprinkled with ground cinnamon.
To create a summer version of the cocktail, you will need more ingredients. The product list includes:
- 250 milliliters of milk;
- 250 grams of creamy ice cream;
- three large apples weighing 600 grams;
- 4 tablespoons brown sugar;
- half a teaspoon of cinnamon;
- half a glass of water.
First of all, the fruits are peeled and peeled, after which they are cut into small pieces. The fruits are laid out in a saucepan, covered with sweetener and cinnamon, and then poured with water. The container is placed on a small fire, and its contents are cooked for about a quarter of an hour.It is important to stir the substance from time to time and monitor until the mass is completely soft. Next, the apples are cooled to almost room temperature. For this it is better to shift the fruits into dishes with thin walls and rearrange them in the refrigerator. At the next stage, 500 grams of apple mass are placed in a food processor and poured with milk. After interrupting the components for a few seconds, you need to add ice cream inside, cut into small squares. The blender is turned on again, and the ingredients are ground until a homogeneous substance is obtained. Dessert should be served immediately, additionally watering it with caramel syrup.
Another milk-apple variation is prepared using fresh mint leaves. Apples are peeled and seeds are removed, after which they are cut into small slices. Fruits are placed in a blender bowl, after which mint leaves, a couple of tablespoons of granulated sugar, and lemon juice are added to them. Pasteurized milk is then poured into the container, and the substance is ground until smooth. Before serving, the drink is topped with ice cubes and garnished with a sprig of mint.
Fruit and vegetable
An apple and pear cocktail has an excellent taste. To create it you will need a couple of apples, a couple of pears and a sprig of basil. Ice is also required for the cooling required in the summer. Washed fruits are peeled and peeled. For faster grinding, you can additionally cut the fruit into small pieces.
The washed basil is cut into pieces and, together with the fruit, is transferred to the blender bowl. If ice is used, it is also introduced at this stage. Products are whipped for a couple of minutes. If the cocktail is too thick, then it can be diluted with mineral water or apple juice.
It also looks very interesting apple drink recipe with citrus juice. To create it, you need to prepare one green apple, 4 tablespoons of oatmeal, half a glass of orange juice, the same amount of grapefruit juice, and honey. First of all, the juice is squeezed out of citrus fruits. Then the liquid component is mixed in a blender with the rest of the ingredients, and at the end it is sweetened with honey.
Very helpful a combination of apple and celery. To prepare a cocktail, in addition to one fruit and one celery stalk, you will need 250 milliliters of water, a slice of fresh pineapple, honey and crushed ice. The washed and cleaned components, except for ice, are laid out in the capacity of a food processor and ground until smooth. The drink is filtered and ground again in a blender, but with ice.
A sweetener in the form of honey or stevia is added to the drink at the end.
Seems pretty interesting combination of apple and cucumber. Required for cooking half a vegetable, peeled and seeds, one apple, a couple of celery stalks, a sprig of parsley, half a teaspoon of grated ginger and lemon juice of a couple of fruits. All components are immediately laid in a food processor and ground until smooth.
An amazing cooling apple cocktail will turn out, if you add grapes and orange juice to the main fruits. For cooking you need three glasses of seedless grapes, 4 fruits, a couple of glasses of citrus juice and crushed ice. Grapes are pre-aged in the freezer for a couple of hours. Apples are peeled and the middle, and then cut into small pieces.All components are mixed in a blender until smooth.
It is better to start the day with a Sunbeams cocktail. To prepare it, you will need one green apple, three carrots, a mango, 6 strawberries and 150 milliliters of cool orange juice. Apple, carrot and mango are peeled and cut into small pieces. All products are transferred to a blender and crushed to a homogeneous substance.
Before serving, the drink should be strained with a fine strainer and cooled with ice cubes.
Recommendations
Serve an apple smoothie in a tall glass, cocktail jar, or Irish glass. This should be done immediately after preparation, so that the components used do not lose their beneficial properties, and in addition, the milkshake does not lose its milk structure.
See the following video for how to make a delicious and healthy white apple and walnut smoothie.