The beauty of zucchini used in raw smoothies really becomes apparent in this recipe! You will instantly experience how zucchini just disappears, providing a blank background for whatever else you’re pairing with it. In this case… mango… and you end up with a delicious glass of “Essence of Mango”, without any cloying sweetness or undertone of “green”.

Add a bit of fresh parsley or baby spinach, and you have a wonderful Live Green Smoothie perfect for beginners and seasoned Smoothie Addicts, alike!

I’ve taken these photos without the greens added, tho, to show how lovely the mango shines through when paired with the zucchini!

The wonderful use of zucchini in raw smoothies is a discovery that has me as excited as the “Mono-Smoothies” I’ve been playing with of late. Two great new developments in the smoothie realm. Opens up a lot of ways to make great smoothies both inexpensively and from the most pedestrian of ingredients.

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All berries are very low in sugar, so I tell all my clients not to use them as the primary fruit in a Live Green Smoothie, because they just won’t have enough sweetness to carry through — they will be too tart.

Paired with zucchini, however, and they seem to shine! The zucchini provides a blank background and mellow undertone to support the delicate berry flavor, making this the ideal smoothie for someone who is very sensitive to the sugar content of smoothies, whether or not they are “raw”.

If you don’t fall in that category and desire a bit more sweetness… no problem! Just add a heaping tablespoon or raw honey or a banana (or two)!

You can make this Live Green Smoothie recipe with or without fresh greens…

I’ve taken these photos without the addition of fresh greens, to show the lovely color of the blueberries showing through. And you don’t have to add greens. But know that if you’d like to enjoy a massive dose of antioxidants with your greens, it’s as simple as adding a heaping cup of parsley or baby spinach to the mix!

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If you have some fave veggies in the grocery aisle, consider trying them out as a Mono-Smoothie. For example, Asparagus and Arugula, two strongly flavored green vegetables that I know aren’t the first items one would think of as a smoothie ingredient.

But if you’re a fan of their charms, they blend up nicely with just a bit of honey, and nothing could be simpler.

Each of these Mono-Smoothies would be an excellent accompaniment to a cooked meal, to help with digestion. And you can always make the resulting flavor much milder by halving the amount of Asparagus or Arugula used, and pairing with a refreshing fruit or a bit of fresh OJ.

Asparagus Mono-Smoothie

Arugula Mono-Smoothie

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If you’re a lover of savory fruit salads, here’s a good one, sweet with juicy pineapple, chewy with finely chopped kale, and pungent with both garlic and fresh ginger. A bit of fresh orange juice… and raw macadamia nuts to make a dense, almost mayonnaise-texture dressing… and this becomes an extremely versatile dish.

You can eat this straight, as a salad. You can use this as a salad sandwich filling. It makes a wonderful salsa-like dip for raw crackers or organic tortilla chips. And would be a colorful and unique side dish for a buffet or raw pot luck!

Not the best salad to munch before going out dancing, though.

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These Mono-Smoothies are a revelation, and something I’ll be drilling into my kids over the next year, as they have determined that this is the year which they want to learn all about how to navigate the kitchen and feed themselves (and their prospective guests in the future) under the auspices of their own acquired knowledge.

Live Green Smoothies and raw smoothies may be super-easy, but these Mono-Smoothies are in a whole new category of easy! Complete and utter no-brainers.

And they are DELICIOUS… light, sweetly refreshing, and just the very essence of freshness!

And Not Only Are They Both Delicious & Easy… They’re Cheap, Too!

And for anyone who has a concern about the cost of radically jacking up the raw and living fruits, vedgies, and greens in their diet, being able to make use of this easy smoothie-making technique will be a budget-saver!

I’m introducing 4 Mono-Smoothie recipes here, and I have 4 more to follow… and I will be sharing boatloads in the coming days so that my readers and subscribers truly gain an understanding of how valuable and useable the Mono-Smoothie concept is.

What do you need to make a Mono-Smoothie?

To make a Mono-Smoothie, you need a single kind of fruit, vegetable, or green (fresh and uncooked should go without saying…), some raw honey, spring water, and ice (ice is optional, according to your preference).

If you don’t want to use raw honey, that’s your business — do what works for you. But I’m an advocate of raw honey and all things made by bees. It is not “just another sugar” (can’t in any way compare with white sugar in my opinion, sorry).

It is rich with living enzymes, is a natural anti-inflammatory agent (read up on its helpful effects for people with asthma and arthritis), and has been famed for ages for its health-promoting, longevity-enhancing, and various healing properties. It is also included in a list within the TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) paradigm of foods that are recommended, as a part of “food therapy”, for diminishing candida-causing yeast and mold in the body.

I use raw honey generously. You use it according to your own taste and health requirements.

Pineapple Mono-Smoothie

Red Pepper Mono-Smoothie

Pumpkin Mono-Smoothie

Mint Mono-Smoothie

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With this one recipe you have a few options — with or without greens, super-lemony or just mild, and dessertly sweet or just sweetly average. Personally, I’m partial to With Greens, Super-Lemony, and Quite Sweet to off-set the lemon… but you pick your fave combo!

Any way you do it up, tho, it’s a great combination. Super way to take advantage of the yummy pineapples and Meyer lemons currently overflowing the grocery bins!

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You’ll be so surprised how this tastes… no one would ever suspect that there’s fresh, raw zucchini in it! Talk about a reason to over-plant your garden with squash this year!

You can even make this rich, creamy smoothie utterly non-fat… or luscious-it-up with a bit of raw cacao butter, which really makes a fabulous difference in taste.

What a great, healthy way to get your chocolate fix!

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Fresh, raw zucchini added to a smoothie is a revelation, and especially when added to a simple, plain vanilla smoothie, which thrives on having as much of a neutral (as well as a creamy) backdrop as possible. This is just lovely. And there is zero fat in it!

Anyone who follows along with my recipes knows I’m crazy about vanilla and am utterly delighted when I find a way to enjoy vanilla in raw vegan recipes, without the use of dairy products. This is an excellent on!

I’ve used bananas in this recipe. Don’t like bananas? Use raw honey instead, and possibly add a bit of coconut oil to gain some of the texture the bananas provide.

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Zucchini contributes a respectable bit of protein to this Live Green Smoothie, accounting for its its creamy texture (high-protein foods like goji berries, hemp seeds, and broccoli are well-known for contributing creaminess to smoothies).

In addition, if you peel your Zucchini, it adds no taste to your LGS (and for you weight-conscious folk, hardly any calories!) so the fruit you use to sweeten it (and the greens you pick — in this case, I’ve used parsley) can really shine through.

Zucchini has some decent health benefits as well. And it’s cheap. So… keep some baby zucchinis your fridge and start tossing them into your smoothies now & then!

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Alas, I could hardly get a taste of this yummy smoothie, as the Marginally Raw Twenty-Somethings in my home absconded with the majority of it. I always take that as a very good sign.

Luscious, creamy, and a bit tart… and would do well with the addition of some fresh parsley or spinach to make a Live Green Smoothie! Definitely give this one a try.

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