Berry Smoothies               

 tags (edit): Cooks Illustrated Magazine Easy @Vogel @Try Soon! Beverage  

 

Vary the amounts of sugar and lemon juice depending on the ripeness of the fruit.

Ingredients

1 medium Banana Ripe Peeled Cut Crosswise In 8 Pieces
3 1/2 cups Berries about 16 Ounces
1/2 cup Whole Milk
1/2 cup White Cranberry Juice or Apple Juice
pinch Salt
3 teaspoon Sugar
2 teaspoon Lemon Juice
3 ea Ice Cubes about 1 1/2 Ounces Total
 

Instructions
 Line rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper; arrange banana and berries in single layer on baking sheet. Freeze fruit until very cold, but not frozen, about 10 minutes.

In blender, puree cold fruit, milk, juice, salt, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, and ice until uniformly smooth, 10 to 15 seconds. Taste for sugar and lemon; if desired, add more sugar or lemon and blend until combined, about 2 seconds longer. Serve immediately.

VARIATIONS* Melon Smoothies:Make sure the melon is absolutely ripe, if not overripe. Underripe melon yields bland smoothies that taste, if anything, like cardboard. Follow recipe for Berry Smoothies, replacing berries with equal amounts of peeled, seeded, and cubed watermelon, cantaloupe, or honeydew (1- to 2- inch pieces are fine) and reducing amount of milk and juice to 1/3 cup each.

* Tropical Fruit Smoothies:Follow recipe for Berry Smoothies, replacing berries with equal amounts of peeled, cored or seeded, and diced pineapple, papaya, or mango (1- to 2-inch pieces) and increasing amounts of milk and juice to 2/3 cup each.





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Yields: 4 Servings
     Cook's Illustrated magazine, May/June 2002, page 2

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