Wild & Tame Strawberry Smoothie

A fresh spring smoothie using red coloured greens and fruits. The two wild varieties of strawberry  Alpine – non creeping with white flowers and sweet, tasty fruit and Indian, which has long runners, yellow flowers and round, red tasteless fruit are very lush at the moment and covered in flowers and fruits.  I thought it would be cool to use them and the leaves along with the first cultivated strawberries (I had to buy them, mine aren’t ready yet) in a smoothie.

Indian Strawberry – tasteless fruit

Alpine Strawberry – tasty, sweet fruit

Wild & Tame Strawberry Smoothie

Handful of a mix of Indian, Alpine and cultivated strawberry leaves (remove the stems as they’re tough)
Handful of beetroot leaves and stems (for red colour)
Several stems of red dead nettle, with its pink flowers
5 leaves of wall lettuce, reddish colour on the back of the top part of the leaf
5 leaves of Herb Robert with red stems and pink flowers (I’ll be writing about this plant soon)
red nasturtium flowers and several leaves
I also added a few celery leaves and some small kale leaves (optional non red extra!)

Put all the leaves and flowers in the blender
Add 2-3 cups water (depending how many people you’re feeding & how thick you like it)
Once blended add
1 punnet of strawberries
1 red apple
2 kiwi fruit
2 bananas

Enjoy!

Wild & Tame Strawberry Smoothie

Wild & Tame Strawberry Smoothie Ingredients