Raspberry Rhubarb Watermelon
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - Erin Urton
Yoga and wellness expert, Erin Urton, shares her craft: divine and decadent smoothie creative. Slurp your way towards vitality with these anything-but-ordinary, power-packed blender concoctions.
I love rhubarb season. It's usually the first thing ready in the garden and tends to be very prolific. In fact, last year I found it growing in nearby ditches and alley ways. I had my freezer full of apple-rhubarb crisp and strawberry-rhubarb pie in no time.
Crisps and pies aside, rhubarb tastes even better in smoothies. Who knew? Team it up with raspberries and watermelon and you have a blend that's super low in sugar but sky high in flavour. It's a good source of magnesium and excellent source of dietary fiber, vitamin C, vitamin K, calcium, potassium and manganese. I find this blend sweet enough without the honey, but have it on hand in case you get a particularly tart stalk of rhubarb.
Take your tastebuds to tasty town now.
Ingredients
Go organic.
1 cup of chopped watermelon, no seeds or rind
3 inches of a ripe red stalk of rhubarb
1/4 cup of raspberries
1 Tbsp hemp hearts
1 Tbsp chia seed
1 tsp unpasteurized honey (optional)
1/2 cup filtered water
Blend until smooth then smack your lips to a tart and tangy flavour explosion. You'll wanna drink this all summer long.
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Erin Urton has her fingers deep in the world of heath and wellness, namely as a yoga teacher in Squamish, BC and Canmore, AB. It was yoga that naturally led her to write and created the desire to help others find their own paths towards health. When she’s not networking up a storm, Erin is outside exploring mountains and forests as much as humanly possible.