Raw Vegan Cherry Dream Smoothie
Serves 1
Ingredients:
1/2 cup water
2 cups pineapple
2 cups black cherries, pitted
1/2 mango (ataulfo is best)
Directions:
Place ingredients in order into Vitamix or blender. Blend on high until smooth. You can use fresh or frozen of any of the fruit ingredients, but fresh is best for the full flavour of each fruit.
The best tool I have found to help with pitting cherries is the Cherry It Cherry Pitter, which I got on Amazon. It rocks, for when you want to eat a bunch of cherries nice and neatly, blending them or freezing them. It can also do olives too. Not that I have tried though! This cherry pitter will be your new best friend during summer time. I love sitting around with a big bowl of pitted cherries and just enjoy popping them into my mouth one by one.
[…] In the summer I like to get lots of fresh cherries and sometimes it’s nice not to be bothered with the stems and pits. I like to pit a big bowl of them for a no mess snack, or when I have too many that I can’t eat and toss them in the freezer for smoothies. One of my favorite smoothie recipes is cherry mango or cherry pineapple. […]