Can't bring yourself to eat raw pumpkin? Make a beautiful oatmeal, pumpkin and dried apricot smoothie with an extraordinary perfumery scent. Experimenting and sharing my impressions! Step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- How to make an oatmeal and pumpkin smoothie step by step
- Video recipe
Smoothie with oatmeal and pumpkin and dried apricots will be both a healthy breakfast and a light dinner for those who want to lose weight and those who do not want to overeat before bed. If you can't have dinner 2-3 hours before bedtime, and you feel hungry, nutritionists advise making a portion of healing smoothies instead of sandwiches. It is healthy, fast and tasty. This smoothie will be especially appreciated by lovers of aromatic pumpkin. there is enough of it in the recipe, but it is used raw. It is worth noting about the presence of useful fiber and a large complex of vitamins. For example, the vitamin T in pumpkin promotes better absorption of fatty, heavy foods, which prevents the accumulation of fat around the waist. Pumpkin also gently removes excess water, which promotes weight loss. Such qualities of a vegetable cannot but interest women who are watching their figure.
Oatmeal is just as healthy. These are slow carbohydrates, fiber, minerals and vitamins. For smoothies, they will work with regular ones, although you can also use instant ones. In a duet, these products create a highly valuable vitamin drink that is very easy to prepare in a minimum amount of time. Any housewife, an inexperienced cook and even a child can handle the recipe. For him, you only need to have a blender, the necessary products and 5 minutes of time.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 95 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 10 minutes
Ingredients:
- Milk - 200 ml
- Oat flakes - 50 g
- Pumpkin - 75 g
- Pumpkin seeds - 30 g
- Dried apricots - 50 g
Step-by-step preparation of oatmeal, pumpkin and dried apricots smoothies, recipe with photo:
1. Wash dried apricots and cover with hot water for 5 minutes, then dry with a paper towel.
2. Peel the pumpkin with seeds and fibers. Wash the pulp and cut in any convenient way.
3. Place the sliced pumpkin in the bowl of a food processor.
4. Next add dried apricots. It can be placed whole or pre-cut into smaller pieces.
5. Add the oatmeal and pumpkin seeds to the bowl. Seeds and oatmeal, if desired, can be fried a little in a clean and dry frying pan until golden brown. This will make the drink tastier.
6. Pour milk over the food so that it covers all the food by 1 cm. However, if you want a rarer drink, you can add the amount of milk until the desired thickness is obtained.
7. Whisk the food with a blender until smooth. Eat oatmeal and pumpkin smoothies right after preparation. Since it is not customary to cook it for the future, tk. after a while, the flakes will swell, and the drink will acquire a thick, porridge-like consistency.
See also the video recipe on how to make a fruit smoothie with oat milk and berries.
