Nordic Light
By Simon Bajada
15 mins plus overnight freezing
Not Too Tricky
serves 2
About the recipe
“I have a love/hate relationship with smoothies. The idea of people replacing a meal full of different textures and flavours with a drink makes me squirm – yet a cold sweet-and-sour fruit smoothie in the morning can be hard to beat. Frozen fruit gives smoothies a nice coldness without requiring ice and helps make use of over-ripe fruit that’s on the way out. Smoothies are also the perfect vehicle for natural nutrient powders, so feel free to add a teaspoon here if you are so inclined.”
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Ingredients
2 pears
6 cardamom pods
500ml oat milk
100g natural yoghurt
2 teaspoons runny honey
2 teaspoons bee pollen
Method
I have a love/hate relationship with smoothies. The idea of people replacing a meal full of different textures and flavours with a drink makes me squirm – yet a cold sweet-and-sour fruit smoothie in the morning can be hard to beat. Frozen fruit gives smoothies a nice coldness without requiring ice and helps make use of over-ripe fruit that’s on the way out. Smoothies are also the perfect vehicle for natural nutrient powders, so feel free to add a teaspoon here if you are so inclined.
- The night before you want to make your smoothie, peel and core the pears. Pop them into the freezer.
- Open the cardamom pods and extract the seeds, then crush up in a pestle and mortar.
- Tip the crushed seeds into a blender, then add the frozen pears, oat milk, yoghurt and honey. Blitz until smooth.
- Divide between two glasses and sprinkle over the bee pollen.
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