nourishing today - green smoothie with kale and sunflower sprouts

green smoothie today: kale leaves, pumpkin seed butter, mango

Today a special one:

• 1l cocos water (not so raw today cause pasteurized.. but I love it's taste and could not buy the coconuts so decided to use it);
• mango - the exterior half, with peel and a bit of flesh;
• 1 tb. spoon pumpkin seeds butter (organic and pure but also not raw);
• a few big kale leaves without stem (a new soort, I found it at the bio-market yesterday, please see the vid below for more info about kale);
• two hands-full sunflower sprouts (also see the vid)
• 2 lemons (peeled and chopped)
• 1 orange (peeled and chopped)
• around 100g lamb's lettuce;
• a bit of water to fill the Vitamix

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This one was a total experiment but you see, if I find or have new exciting ingredients I want to use them all in the same time..:-) See the vid below for how I prepare the kale, as well as a visual of the sun flower sprouts.

green smoothie today

It was a great experiment and the taste was.. well, powerful:-)

A bit too much, actually.. 

So I drank one liter of it as was..

..and to the second liter I added:

• some more water, to make the consistency more drinkable (the first batch was very thick)
  
• one banana (yes, peeled)
• 4 cardamon seeds to cut the very powerful taste of the sprouts (in case you do not know, cardamon seeds have also a very special flavor, taste it first.. the seeds are even more powerful than the cardamon powder so that is why I added only 4..)
• big piece of ginger (3cm)

And yes, this second batch was seriously more drinkable than the first:-) 
Still, I loved both:-) Yum!

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