Did you know that you can eat the green leafy carrot tops? I’m not sure I’d want to dive right in and take a bite of a carrot top, but in a smoothie? Yes, please! I’ve been loving all the carrots in our CSA Boxes.
I simply toss the tops in a freezer bag and then include them in future smoothies. Plenty of fruit in a smoothie can hide plenty of greens.
My boys were thrilled to be my taste testers for this smoothie. I made the smoothie extra thick, because they wanted a smoothie they could eat with a spoon. Blend completely and then adjust the thickness with extra juice or water if you prefer a thinner smoothie.
Blueberry Carrot Top Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup orange juice plus water or more juice if needed
- Green leafy tops from about ½ lb of carrots see pic above - approx one full handful
- 2 small bananas
- 1 1/2 cups blueberries
- optional: 1 tablespoon chia seeds
Instructions
- Layer the orange juice, carrot tops and bananas into the blender. Puree until completely smooth. Add the blueberries and blend again until smooth. Add chia seeds if desired and pulse to combine. Enjoy!
Three-Cookies says
Another creative smoothie. If I recall correctly I tried either carrot or radish tops in a salad and it was fantastic.
i-lostinausten says
Can't wait to try this recipe ! Love the color! 🙂
Words Of Deliciousness says
I would have never thought of putting the carrot tops into a smoothie. Great idea!
rootsandshootsblog says
I just tried this recipe (it's my first green smoothie!). Delicious. Added flaxseed instead of chia. I'll be back for more ideas.
Recommended Alaska fishing lodge info… says
This is just gorgeous! I am totally going to make this version! My kids would devour this one!
Anonymous says
just made carrot top smoothie but the taste is chuncky from the green tops had to add orange juice but didn't seem to dilute it have to experiment a different kind of green juice lol;)
Mary says
It's possible that the blender simply wasn't powerful enough to puree it, or it wasn't blended for long enough. It shouldn't have been chunky at all and even my pickiest kids don't taste the green in this one. I'm sorry to hear that the smoothie turned out poorly for you.
Ruth says
Now I know what to do with my carrot tops! I didn't have OJ but did have coconut water. Also used 1 T protein powder. This is really good!
Kimberly says
Great recipe. Thank you for showing how to use carrot greens. Maybe I will try beet greens too.
Mary Younkin says
I haven’t tried that before, Kimberly. Let me know how it goes.