If you’ve ever had my Best Ever Green Smoothie (For the Green Smoothie Skeptics!) then you know you truly can’t taste baby spinach when it’s blended into smoothies with a few sweet ingredients, which is great because spinach is fabulous way to add a ton of essential vitamins and minerals to your diet. If the kermit-color freaks you out though, my Secretly Healthy Cherry-Peach Smoothie is for you!
While the summery-sweet flavor of cherries and peaches mask any subtle spinach flavor, the deep crimson color of the cherries also nixes any and all shades of bright green that the healthy addition would otherwise bring to the table.
Start by scooping 6oz Black Cherry or Peach Greek Yogurt into a blender which provides a rich creaminess and protein, aka staying power, to the smoothie.
Next add 1 cup pitted cherries – fresh or frozen – just make sure they’re sweet not sour cherries.
Next add 1 sliced peach, or 1 cup frozen peach slices.
Finally add 1 – 2 cups baby spinach on top – fresh or frozen. If you’ve never tried adding spinach to your smoothies, I’d start at 1 cup and work your way up just in case you think you can taste it (which I promise you won’t.)
A word on frozen spinach – I have never used pre-frozen spinach from the carton in my smoothies. I’m sure it’s fine, but I prefer to freeze baby spinach myself in a freezer bag and just use that. It’s easier to pull out a cup or two instead of having to hack off a portion of the frozen cube. I like to stock up when the store is having a 2/$4 or 2/$3 sale and freeze a few bags for easy smoothie additions when I need them.
Finally add 1/4 cup milk – any kind. If you use frozen cherries and/or peaches you may need a touch more to get the smoothie going.
Place a lid on top of the blender and let ‘er rip!
Sweet, decadent, and (shh – secretly) healthy!
Because I think cherries are such a special treat, as they have such a short season each year, this smoothie tastes especially decadent to me. Could be eaten as a breakfast, OR a healthier dessert option. Either way, enjoy!
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