A festive peppermint smoothie bowl, made pink with berries and cool and minty, stress-reducing peppermint tea. Perfect pretty bowls to place on a holiday brunch table.
Make concentrated goji berry tea by steeping ¼ cup dried goji berries in ½ cup of water for 5 minutes. Strain, and add the resulting tea to the blender.
Make a concentrated peppermint tea from 3 tea bags. Steep them in ½ cup of boiled water for two minutes. Pour resulting tea into blender.
Make smoothies
Add the rest of the ingredients to the blender. Blend up your smoothie, and serve with crushed peppermint and gingerbread cookies on top, and even a drizzle of coconut butter!
2 cups yogurt, ½ cup zucchini, 1 tablespoon maple syrup, ½ cup strawberries, ½ cup goji berry tea, ½ cup peppermint tea, crushed peppermint candy
Notes
Sweetener. Instead of maple syrup, toss in a pear or a cup of green grapes to sweeten instead.Peppermint tea. Instead of tea, add peppermint extract.Ingredients. Any yogurt can be used. Buy goji berries dried and in a package, often found in the supplements area or even where raisins are sold.Top the bowl with cranberries, strawberries and crushed peppermint candies.