Oat, pear & cardamom smoothie

Name: Oat, pear & cardamom smoothie
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 2 pears; 6 cardamom pods; 500 ml oat milk; 100 g natural yoghurt; 2 teaspoons runny honey; 2 teaspoons bee pollen

Gently spiced & refreshing

Vegetarianv

“I have a love/hate relationship with smoothies. The idea of people replacing a meal full of different textures and flavours with a drink makes me squirm – yet a cold sweet-and-sour fruit smoothie in the morning can be hard to beat. Frozen fruit gives smoothies a nice coldness without requiring ice and helps make use of over-ripe fruit that’s on the way out. Smoothies are also the perfect vehicle for natural nutrient powders, so feel free to add a teaspoon here if you are so inclined. ”

Serves 2

Cooks In15 minutes plus overnight freezing

DifficultyNot too tricky

Fruit Breakfast Juices and smoothies

Nutrition per serving

Calories 245 12%
Fat 6.1g 9%
Saturates 1.6g 8%
Sugars 37.2g 41%
Salt 0.35g 6%
Protein 3.7g 7%
Carbs 45.9g 18%
Fibre 7.6g -

Of an adult's reference intake

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By Simon Bajada

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Ingredients

2 pears
6 cardamom pods
500 ml oat milk
100 g natural yoghurt
2 teaspoons runny honey
2 teaspoons bee pollen

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By Simon Bajada

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Method

The night before you want to make your smoothie, peel and core the pears. Pop them into the freezer.
Open the cardamom pods and extract the seeds, then crush up in a pestle and mortar.
Tip the crushed seeds into a blender, then add the frozen pears, oat milk, yoghurt and honey. Blitz until smooth.
Divide between two glasses and sprinkle over the bee pollen.