Guava Smoothie
Submitted by kitsune on February 12, 2009 - 8:52pm
Servings:
4 small servingsI felt deficient in "Vitamin Orange" so I made this.
Ingredients:
1 cup of water (if you want sweeter add apple juice instead)
1/2 small banana
3 whole guavas cut
up
2 Tbsp lucuma powder (Navitas brand) (you may substitute fresh lucuma if it grows near you.)
1/4 large ripe papaya
1/2 tsp ground flax seed
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Preparation:
Blend everything together until creamy and smooth.
3 reponses to "Guava Smoothie"
1. i like to eat the food which
i like to eat the food which contains the vitamin orange
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2. I <3 the pink flesh guava but
I <3 the pink flesh guava but so far i can only find white. :( Sometimes i can find the pink one later in season. This recipe would work with both.
Lucuma is awesome. There really is no substitute because it adds a warm sweet mapley-flavour, thickens the smoothie, but contains beta-carotene & iron. Amazon.com and a few other places online sell the dried raw powdered lucuma. Totally worth it. I think there is another recipe in the database that uses lucuma to make a smoothie that tastes like "fruity pebbles". Barring that, you could try the recipe without the lucuma.
3. I haven't tried this yet but
I haven't tried this yet but I'm excited to, as guavas are just coming back into season where I live. I have a question, kitsune: are you using the pinkish guava or the white? I can only get the white kind. And I don't have lucuma and have never tasted it, so could you recommend a decent substitute?