Get in your greens with the best beet greens smoothie ever! The healthy green smoothie recipe is a great way to use leftover beet greens from making your favorite beetroot recipes like cucumber and beet salad, beetroot dip, or watermelon beet salad.
What are Beet Greens?
Beet greens are the often-overlooked leafy tops of the beet plant. While you might usually discard them when preparing fresh beets, don’t! These greens are packed with flavor and are a tasty addition to fresh salad recipes and smoothies, like this one! Here’s what you need to make it:
Ingredients You’ll Need
- Milk: Choose your favorite liquid for the smoothie—dairy, oat, soy, coconut, almond milk, water, or even fruit juice.
- Lemon Juice: Add the juice from half a fresh lemon for a bright flavor.
- Avocado: Include half of an avocado or swap it with a banana for an extra creamy smoothie.
- Sweetener: Naturally sweeten the beet greens smoothie with pitted Medjool dates and frozen pineapple or mango chunks.
- Beet Greens: Wash and roughly chop beet greens for the smoothie recipe. If you don’t have enough beet greens, swap for baby spinach, kale, mint leaves, or a combination.
- Cilantro: Add a small handful of fresh cilantro. It may be like an odd addition, but try it! If you are not a fan of the cilantro flavor, replace it with fresh mint leaves.
- Ginger: Fresh ginger is a perfect match for this smoothie. If you don’t have a high-speed blender, grate the ginger first to ensure it blends smoothly.
Additions and Substitutions
- Mix it up. Include extras like protein powder, collagen, spirulina, flaxseeds, chia seeds, bee pollen, matcha, or hemp seeds.
- Add veggies. Fresh zucchini, celery, and cucumber are a fresh-tasting addition to the green smoothie.
Tools You’ll Need
I recommend using a high speed blender to process the greens, but you can also use a small blender.
How to Make Beet Greens Smoothie
The full recipe with measurements is in the recipe card below.
Step 1: Rinse and dry the beet greens and transfer them to a blender.
Step 2: Add the remaining ingredients to the blender and process until smooth. If the smoothie is too thick, add more liquid as needed.
Expert Tips
- Use frozen fruit. Using frozen fruit is best since it keeps the smoothie cold and thick.
- Adjust the consistency. Add more liquid at the end if the smoothie is too thick.
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Serving Suggestions
A beet greens smoothie is a great way to start your day, or you can enjoy it as a post-workout drink or tasty afternoon snack.
What To Do With Leftovers
- Refrigerate: The smoothie is best enjoyed fresh, but store any leftovers in an airtight container or glass jar for two days.
- Freeze: Pour the smoothie into an ice cube tray. Once frozen, transfer the frozen smoothie cubes to a freezer-safe container or bag. Beet greens smoothie cubes will freeze for 2-3 months.
- Thaw: Add the frozen cubes to a blender with milk, water, or juice, and process until smooth.
- Repurpose: Make a smoothie bowl with toppings like low FodMap granola, fresh fruit, nuts, seeds, or nut butter like peanut butter or almond butter. You can also pour the leftovers into popsicle molds to make kid-friendly smoothie popsicles!
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Beet Greens Smoothie
- Salad Spinner
- 2-3 cups fresh beet greens, washed, stemmed, and roughly chopped
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- ½ avocado
- 2-3 Medjool dates, pitted and roughly chopped
- ½ cup frozen pineapple or mango chunks
- ¼ cup cilantro leaves, washed and roughly chopped
- 1-inch knob of ginger, grated
- ice cubes, as needed
- Use frozen fruit. Using frozen fruit is best since it keeps the smoothie cold and thick.
- Adjust the consistency. Add more liquid at the end if the smoothie is too thick.