Strawberry Smoothie - A Perfect Breakfast Drink

Hi everybody! I am back with wonderful memories from my long weekend trip.  But now I have been back since a week and things have fallen back into a routine activities and I am definitely back on the blogosphere as I do not want to get into the annoying habit of taking long breaks. Anyway What I have for you today is a very healthy and a Perfect Breakfast Drink made with Strawberries and Yoghurt.

Strawberries are good source of vitamins and nutritional value. These are things that stress can deprive us of and drinking fruit smoothies containing strawberries can help replenish us and keep us healthy.

Although Germany is still in the grips of cold spring weather, people back home in India are probably already in the depths of a hot summer. Pune my hometown used to be a city with moderate summers till about 10 to 12 years back but no more. Summers of Pune are something to reckon with these days . The sun starts blazing down on you practically from eight in the morning and relief in the form of a cool breeze can be experienced only late in evening after sunset. So what to do that will make your summer tolerable ??
Easy! Concentrate on the delicious recipe……………

So for this you need:-

 

(these quantities are for One glass) 

1/2 cup Fresh Strawberries (I froze them for an hour before using them)
3 to 4 Ice Cubes (If you are using Ice cubes, then no need to freeze strawberries)
150 gms plain yogurt,
1/4 cup chilled milk,
2 to 3 tsp sugar

1 tsp. Finely chopped Strawberries   

In the blender first put in the milk and yogurt and then put in the frozen strawberries and sugar and ice (optional). Putting the liquids first prevents the strawberries from jamming your blender mechanism.
Give it all a good blitz until nice, smooth. Now add the finely chopped strawberries in the serving glass and pour the smoothie on top. Decorate it and serve.
Similarly you can also make Mango smoothie, Banana smoothie, Raspberry smoothie. Try them too.

One more thing that you can add in this is mint leaves. Just add 5-6 fresh mint leaves while blending. Mint leaves gives a different flavour all together to the smoothie.