Berry and Banana Smoothie

Hello everyone :) this smoothie is literally one of the best things I’ve ever tasted in my life and I can’t wait to share it with you all! I saw a picture of it on an Instagram account and I’ve finally mastered the ingredients! I have this for breakfast some mornings because it’s so quick and easy to make. It’s also really filling and full of goodness YAY!

It has 2 layers – the top is banana and mango and the bottom is berries. The amounts of the ingredients isn’t exact because I guestimate every time I make it! I think that’s why this smoothie is so good because you can adjust to what ever you like the most.

Ingredients and steps:

Red layer:

• A handful of frozen berries (I just use the frozen packs you can buy from any supermarket, my favorite is the variety pack so you can get blue berries, strawberries and raspberries – but if you prefer you can just have 1 type its entirely up to you!)
• Roughly 2 table spoons of strawberry yoghurt (if you are trying to be super healthy you can use the fat free type)
• 100-200 ml of milk
• Put it all in a blender and BLEND!
•  Pour into a nice glass and rinse the blender for the yellow layer

Yellow layer:

• A handful of frozen mango cut into cubes (I buy the ready cut frozen packets)
• 1 Banana (if it’s a huge one half will be fine)
• Roughly 2 table spoons of natural yoghurt (sometimes I use vanilla and it’s also just as good!!)
• 100-200ml milk
• Put it in the blender and BLEND!
• Pour it gently on top of the red layer
• If you want you can cut the rest of the banana into little pieces and put it on the top.

*A big tip is if you want the layers to be split in half like in the picture you have to make sure the bottom layer is thicker than the top layer because otherwise the top just sinks to the middle, it still tastes just the same but it looks a lot better that’s all hahaha

Thanks so much

Becs xx

Chai Tea Thermomix

 Hey everyone! Today I made this really simple Chai Tea in a thermomix. The recipe was so simple and it literally took me 10 minutes (I timed myself haha). It’s such a great little drink to have if you’re feeling hungry before dinner! I looooove tea and sometimes I get a little bored of the same old drink and this was so refreshing! I used to drink the Nestle chai lattes that came in the sachets and this was honestly so much better. I felt really healthy because I knew exactly what was inside!

My mum finally caved and bought a thermomix a few months ago and at first I was a little doubtful mostly because of the price, but I have been really pleasantly surprised! I really like it for making drinks like this and other smoothies and stuff. If any of you guys would like to see any reviews or any other recipes comment below and let me know!!

It has 116 calories per cup (489 kJ) .

Ingredients

• 1/4 teaspoon cardamon seeds
•  1 cinnamon quil
• 500g water
• 300g milk 
• 3 whole cloves
• 5 tsp black tea leaves (I just got 2 Yorkshire tea teabags and cut them open and used them)
• 50-70g caster sugar or honey (I used 70g honey and it was heaven)
• Sieve (my sieve has a hole in it which isn’t ideal hahaha so that’s why on the picture you can see a few tiny specks that didn’t get caught but its fine)

 Steps

• Get the cardamom seeds and the cinnamon quill and put them into the mixing bowl of the thermomix and mill for about 30 seconds on speed 9
• Add the water, milk, cloves, tea leaves and sugar/honey and cook for 9 minutes at 80oC on speed 3
• Drain the tea through the sieve into a jug or something heat proof

Thanks so much

Becs xx