Review of Green Kitchen Smoothies recipe Book and giveaway

Fruit and Vegetables play a big part in my family's diet, I try and incorporate the two in every imaginable way possible to the many dishes I create. One of the easiest way to get your five a day is to use fruits and vegetables in smoothies, juices,salads and raw desserts.

I am always looking for different combinations and recipe ideas to make smoothies more interesting to drink and also adding ingredients that provide nutritional and health benefits too. One of the books that I recently discovered  is Green Kitchen Smoothies written by David Frenkiel and Luise Vindahl. David and Luise live in Stockholm and are the creators of a food blog called Green Kitchen Stories. 

The book is  beautifully illustrated with the most mouthwatering pictures, as we all know we eat with our eyes and something that looks pretty is something we will want to try. The book is divided into sections, there is a section after the introduction which explains how to create a perfect smoothie followed by a section on tools and equipment and a section on tips and tricks.

The first chapter of the book is called Basic recipes, it gives recipes of certain ingredients that are required to be added to other recipes throughout the book.The book follows with a section on simple smoothies, amazing show stopper smoothies, nut milks, juices and finally a section on desserts. Yes I wrote correctly I did mean desserts!! You can find healthy, mouthwatering and droolworthy healthy desserts in this book.

The recipes are easy to follow and most of the ingredients used in the recipes are readily available in the supermarket and specialist health food stores. I found many wonderful recipes that I really want to recreate from the book such as Banana snickers shake, Peanut butter and jam milkshake, Iced almond chai latte, Triple chocolate mint bowl and the Berry Smoothie and salted caramel semifreddo.

These are just a handful of many recipes that I am looking forward to try but I am starting off with the Banana snicker shake which I recreated as per the recipe in the book and it was absolutely delicious. You can see my recipe I made here.

I really like this book and see myself using it a lot. My score rating for the book:

Content Layout - 4/5
Illustrations-5/5
Recipe Instructions-5/5

Total Score 14/15

Green Kitchen Smoothies (Hardback) is published by Hardie Grant Books.
ISBN 978---784-88046-0
It is available from 16th June and it is priced at £15.00.

I was sent a copy of Green Kitchen Smoothies book to review, all the views and opinions expressed are of my own experience of the book.

I made my smoothie in my Optimum 9400 which is a powerful blender that grinds, pulses, chops, grates, cooks and makes icecreams at a flick of a switch. You can read a review about my Froothie Optimum 9400 here.

At the moment the Optimum 9400 is available at a special offer introductory price of £339 which includes a 30 day trial so that you can return it back postage free if you are not totally satisfied with it. I love options like this because I feel that if I do invest in a gadget I want peace of mind that I can be100 percent happy with it. Also being a brand ambassador for Froothie any one purchasing through this post can you can get Extra 2 years warranty to get this use the code "Special Ambassador Offer" on purchase

As always I love my readers to be able to try, test or read products that I feature at simplyfood, so I am pleased to say that I have one copy of the Green Kitchen Smoothie Book to giveaway to one lucky reader.

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