This celery smoothie recipe is a delicious way to include more celery into your diet. It’s blended with flavorful fruits and filled with extra nutrients from spinach.
Is Celery Smoothie Healthy?
Yes, our smoothie can provide you with a certain amount of healthful benefits.
For starters, it’s a blend of celery, spinach, ginger, apple, and orange juice, together containing vitamins C, and A, along with potassium, and iron in various amounts. Your body needs these nutrients to function properly, and some of them are also antioxidants that help to reduce inflammation.
For all those nutrients, the drink comes with only 91 calories. Drinks low in calories like this can help you control your calorie intake, and hence, avoid unwanted weight gain.
If you enjoy sweet treats a lot, you might also want to keep a close eye on your added sugar intake. This smoothie contains about 8 g per serving, 16% of the USDA’s suggested upper limit for a 2000-calorie diet (50 g per day).
Main Ingredients
This celery smoothie recipe calls for celery, ginger, spinach, green apple, orange juice, and ice:
For celery we only use the green part as the white part at the bottom is more fibrous. It can be saved for making vegetable stocks.
Similarly, you should also remove the spinach stems. This fibrous part is best used in cooking, such as making stir-fries.
To avoid ending up with large pieces of ginger, we minced ours before adding it to the blender but you can also grate your ginger instead of mincing.
Since most of the ingredients are green, we used green apples to maintain the vibrant color. Green apples also come with less sugar (and calories) than red apples.
For orange juice, you can squeeze your own or use bottled varieties. If you choose the latter, be sure to go for a good brands that sells pure orange juice, with some added nutrients.
What Goes Well With Celery in a Smoothie
Celery can be blended with many fibrous components, like apples, pineapples, oranges, kale, etc., and a fruit juice of choice.
Can Celery Be Frozen?
Celery is one of those vegetables that turn from crunchy to wilted when stored in the freezer, because of its high- water content. As such it doesn’t cook or serve raw particularly well, but it is, in fact, ideal for juicing or making smoothies with.
Before storage, cut your celery into chunks as if you’re going to sauté it for a soup. Place the chunks in a sealable bag, zip it up, and toss it in the freezer. The celery will keep for up to 3 months.
The other components of this smoothie also freeze well for up to 3 months, but like celery, once frozen, they’re good for smoothie-making only. Spinach, on the other hand, doesn’t contain lots of moisture and will surely turn out delicious when cooked.
Storage and Freezing the Leftover
If you must, keep the smoothie in the fridge for 2 days only, and consume it as soon as possible. In the freezer, it’ll last for 3 months, but once fully thawed it’ll become watery and bland.
Since the components can be frozen separately, we highly recommend you make just enough for consumption in one sitting. Otherwise, make the smoothie without ice. It won’t become watery, and you can always add ice when serving.
In terms of storage, we prefer Ziploc bags over containers — they save more space and come in different sizes. We often portion our smoothies into small bags, which makes thawing individual servings much easier than if all the leftovers are kept in one big bag.
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Celery Smoothie Recipe
This celery smoothie recipe makes a cool, refreshing drink loaded with vitamins, minerals, and fiber. It makes any meal healthier and tastier.
- prep TIME 7 mins
- total TIME 7 mins
- COURSE Beverage
- CUISINE Global
- SERVINGS servings
- CALORIES 63 kcal
INGREDIENTS
- 2 oz celery (white stalk and leafy top trimmed)
- 6 oz green apple (seeds removed)
- 2 oz spinach (stem removed)
- 1 cup orange juice
- 2 tbsp honey (optional)
- 1 tsp ginger (minced)
- 2 cups ice
INSTRUCTIONS
Put into the ingredients: Combine 2 cups ice, 6 oz green apple, 2 oz spinach, 2 oz celery, 1 cup orange juice, honey (maximum 2 tbsp), 1 tsp ginger in the blender.
Blend in 20 - 30 seconds at high speed until completely smooth.
Pour the smoothie mixture into 4 glasses.
Garnish them with the celery leaves and sliced apple. Enjoy your refreshing beverage.
NUTRITION
Tuyet Pham
Head Chef, Culinary Consultant
Luna Regina
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