Great for breakfast or a snack.

INGREDIENTS:

1 pear, cored
1 cup frozen broccoli
1 cucumber, peeled
1/4 of a large avocado, or 1/2 of a small avocado, peeled and with the pit removed
1 tsp fresh ginger, peeled
1 cup of coconut water (or plain water if you don’t want added sweetness)
Optional: If you’re a chocolate lover, add 1 Tbsp cacao nibs or unsweetened cocoa powder (note: if you use cocoa powder in place of cacao nibs, your “green” smoothie will turn the color of a chocolate milkshake)
Optional: If you’re making this as your breakfast, add 1 or 2 Tbsp of added protein such as almond butter or hemp seeds

DIRECTIONS

Toss all of the ingredients into a blender. If you’ve got a high speed blender like a Vitamix, blending will take around 30 seconds. Other blenders work just fine, but will take a couple of minutes longer. Makes 1 large breakfast-sized smoothie or two small smoothies.