Did you know with one added ingredient, you can turn your green smoothie into an adult beverage? All you have to do is make your smoothie as you would normally, add the alcohol you want to pair it with it, and blend to combine! Pretty simple, right? Now you can have the goodness of fruits and vegetables with the twist of alcohol. For starters, adding some light rum to a tropical fruit smoothie will make it taste like a daiquiri, strawberry or cranberry smoothies match well with vodka, and a citrus smoothie can turn into a margarita with just a dash of tequila. The possibilities are endless, but we’ll focus on just what kind of alcohol goes best in your adult green smoothies.
Here are our favorite adult green smoothies.
Glowing Green Smoothie + Gin
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2-2 cups of water
- 3/4 pound of romaine lettuce, roughly chopped (about one head)
- 1/2 head large bunch (or 3/4 small bunch) spinach
- 3-4 celery stalks, halved
- 1 apple, cored, seeded, quartered
- 1 pear, cored, seeded, quartered
- 1 banana, peeled
- 1/2 fresh lemon, peeled, seeded
- 1/3 bunch cilantro with stems (optional)
- 1/3 bunch parsley with stems (optional)
- 1 ounce of gin
Directions:
- Place water, romaine, spinach, celery, and optional ingredients, if using, into a blender in the order listed and secure lid.
- Blend for sixty seconds or until smooth. Stop machine and remove lid.
- Add apple, pear, banana and lemon to the blender in the order listed and secure lid.
- Blend for sixty seconds or until smooth. Finally, add gin and blend until fully combined.
Cucumber Melon Smoothie + Gin
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup of soy milk
- 1 cup of green grapes
- 1 1/2 cups of cantaloupe chunks
- 1/2 cup of peeled and chopped cucumber
- 1 cup of honeydew chunks
- 1 small lime, peeled, halved
- 1 cup of ice cubes
- 1 ounce of gin
Directions:
- Place all ingredients into a blender and secure lid.
- Blend for a minute, or until fully blended.
- Add the gin and blend until smooth and combined.
Cucumber Mint Smoothie + Vodka
Ingredients:
- 1 cucumber, peeled and chopped
- 1 Tablespoon of fresh mint leaves, torn into small pieces
- 2 cups of cubed honeydew melon
- 1 cup of ice cubes
- 1 ounce of cucumber vodka
Directions:
- Add all ingredients to the blender in the order of items listed. Blend until smooth.
- Garnish with a mint sprig.
Frozen Mojito Smoothie
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup of simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water, boiled together until sugar dissolves) or agave nectar
- 1/4 cup of lime juice (from 2-3 limes)
- 12 mint leaves
- ½ cup (4 ounces) of light rum
- 2 cups of ice
Directions:
- Blend the sugar syrup, lime juice, mint leaves, and rum until smooth.
- Add the ice and finish blending.
- Pour into glasses, and garnish with lime slices and mint sprigs.
Green Tea Smoothie + Vodka
Ingredients:
- 1 banana
- ½ of an avocado
- A handful of spinach
- ½ cup of vanilla coconut milk
- 1 scoop of vanilla whey protein
- 1 Tablespoon of green tea powder
- 8-10 ice cubes
- 1 ounce of vanilla vodka
Directions:
- Place all ingredients in a blender and mix until well combined, adding more coconut milk or water if it’s too thick. To increase the thickness go half and half with the coconut milk and vodka, or add a bit more protein powder.
- Top with additional green tea powder or serve as is.
Coconut Mojito Smoothie
Ingredients:
- ½ of an avocado (ripe)
- 12 ounces of coconut milk (or almond milk, light)
- 1/2 cup of coconut milk yogurt
- 2 Tablespoons of lime juice (add more if you like it tart)
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 2 ounces of white rum (or vanilla rum, your preference)
- 1 Tablespoon of maple syrup
- 1/4 cup of pineapple juice concentrate, frozen
- Mint leaves, 8 divided
- Ice (optional)
Directions:
- Blend together all ingredients plus 4-6 mint leaves. Save 2 mint leaves for garnish.
- Add ice if you want it more slushy.
- Garnish with mint leaves, extra maple syrup and/or a lime wedge, if desired.
- Serve cold.
Pineapple Avocado Smoothie + Gin
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of water
- 1/2 of a medium ripe avocado, peeled and pitted
- 2 cups of spinach
- 2 cups of frozen pineapple chunks
- 1-2 Tablespoons of honey or agave, or to taste
- 1 ounce of gin
Directions:
- Add all of your ingredients to the blender in this order: water, avocado, spinach, pineapple chunks. Blend until smooth.
- Turn off the blender and add honey or agave to taste, then blend until well incorporated.
- Finally, add the gin and blend well. Serve immediately.
