Tart cranberries and bright oranges make this Cranberry and Orange Smoothie delicious and healthy! Post may contain affiliate links.
Cranberry Orange Smoothie
It's about that time. The time to start thinking about using up the eight bags of cranberries that your froze last year around this time. Apparently I have a deathly fear of running out of cranberries. It use to be somewhat of a challenge to use up the bags that I so carefully squirreled away. But now that I have my much loved, Vitamix
, I am using them up like crazy!
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Frozen cranberries are like little red ice cubes, filled with tart goodness. I toss them by the handful into almost any smoothie I'm making, or at least the red ones. Yes, I tend to make my smoothies by color. I have green smoothies, red smoothies, purple smoothies and brown smoothies. Smoothies in all colors. It seems to work well, when I don't have a particular smoothie recipe in mind.
This time, though, I went looking for cranberry smoothie recipes. The first one I found from Real Simple, Fresh Cranberry and Orange Smoothie, sounded perfect. This was so good, I've made it 3 times this week already. Well, I did buy a big bag of oranges, so that's also a push to make this over and over again. I love the way my Vitamix has turned dessert into a healthy treat. I made this both with almond milk and regular milk and I tend to prefer the regular milk - it seems to let the cranberry and orange flavors shine through more. So healthy and so delicious!
Some other smoothies you might like: Pomegranate Smoothie and Apple Pie Smoothie.
Cranberry and Orange Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 cup of almond milk or whatever kind of milk you like
- 1/2 cup whole milk greek yogurt
- 2/3 cup fresh or frozen cranberries
- 2 oranges peeled, seeded (I left in the seeds)
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
Instructions
- Put all the ingredients in your blender and blend until the desired consistency.
Nutrition
wow...this sounds sooo great.
This smoothie looks & sounds so yummy! I have a bag of frozen cranberries, & all the other ingredients on hand (this rarely happens to me), so will make this for my breakfast today. Just FYI, I analyzed the nutrition in this recipe, & here it is: 192 calories, 28g carbs, 3g fat, 11g protein, 116mg soda & 19g sugars. I find that not all smoothies are "healthy" as far as calories, carbs & fat, but this one is really a winner, & perfect for Fall. TYFS!
Thanks for the nutrition info!!
I believe I will be partaking of this smoothie the day after Thanksgiving to give me energy for Black Friday shopping! Thanks for sharing with Saucy Saturdays!
I haven't yet attempted cranberries in smoothies, but I bet they add the perfect sweet-tart flavor!
Those smoothies look really good...I'm always looking for a great way to get my grandsons to enjoy some protein as well as a treat and so far they love smoothies...but only Mango...I'll give these a try, intoducing the cranberries slowly...the whole milk yogert is a great help...Your photo's are lovely Pam.
I squirrel cranberries, too. Pretty glasses, and great flavors!
Lol @ squirreling away cranberries. Too funny! These smoothies look and sound delicious!
Perfect way to make a smoothie....with frozen cranberries! Looks fabulous, Pam.