🌴 Green Smoothie Of The Day: Holy Basil Tropical Morning Bliss 🌴
Holy Basil aka Tulsi isn’t your average supermarket basil. This sacred Hindu herb has a peppery flavor and has been used as a healing herb in India for thousands of years to treat colds, coughs, and the flu. According to Ayurvedic practices, Holy Basil promotes purity and lightness in the body. It cleanses the respiratory tract of toxins and relieves digestive gas and bloating.
The oil coming from the holy basil leaves is a rich source of eugenol, neroli, camphor, and a variety of terpenes and flavonoids. It has shown strong antiseptic properties against many kinds of disease-causing germs such as bacteria, fungi, and parasites.
While it has been used for ages for its healing effects, as its name implies the plant also has a spiritual significance. According to the Hindu mythology, the holy plant is an incarnation of the goddess Tulsi who is very close to Lord Vishnu. She offers divine protection.
Therefore, in almost every Hindu household you will find Tulsi or Holy Basil. In the morning the woman of the house will offer water, incense, and flowers to this sacred, healing plant, while in the evening oil lamps are lit next to it.
A good morning makes a good day! What a better way than to start your day with a divine superfood smoothie.
Ingredients (serves 3)
1/2 - 1 cup holy basil or Tulsi
1 carrot
3 passion fruit
1 banana (frozen for extra creaminess)
1 cup papaya chunks
1 cup pineapple chunks
1 mango chunks
Fresh turmeric to taste
2 tbsp unsalted peanut butter
3 cups water
Chia seeds (optional topping)
Goji berries (optional topping)
Directions
- Add all ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth.
- Optional: Top with superfoods such as chia seeds and goji berries if you like
Have a great week!
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wow nice and delicious post!!. Followed
Thanks @kinimusic26! Glad you like this one.
thanks for making this
My pleasure. Hope you get to try it one day ;)
Looks good.. you must be the healthiest most protected person around ..
Hehe! Not at all. Just doing everything in my power to live a clean, healthy lifestyle most of my time but believe me we have our cheat moments too... like yesterday's $1 dollar sangrias at one of my fav places with some good friends... had a chocolate passion fruit tart too.... we are all human right?
sounds fun and yes we must enjoy life
I love how you incorporate both fruits and veggies in your smoothies. So well balanced!!
Thanks @jaymorebeet! Got to have both to get a good start of the day ;) Thanks for stopping by!
So, where is your café/restaurant and when can we visit? Love your recipes, always so healthy and delicious. <3
And you take great photos.
My home in Cambodia! Always welcome here ;) Thanks for your lovely comment
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STOPthe 🌿 basil very important for me, I use it so much in my kitchen, especially to make maccaroni, and Moroccan tea , really it come very nice and has a great smell, i like your smoothie because you mix many tropical fruit, sure the taste will be very yummy and healthy too because you added chia seed.
Tulsi tea is so good! Going to the market later to stock up ;) Thanks for your comment ;)
It would be very good cure for my cold now. To bad that in my couuntry we didn't have this palnt. Beside that, it looks so good :)
Ohh get well soon my friend. Maybe you can find the dried leaves for tea.
Sounds refreshing.. Thanks for sharing :)
My pleasure @theinspirator!
I think I will try this tomorrow for my smoothie. I have holy basil growing and haven't tried it yet!
Ohh lucky you. It will taste even better. We are almost moving house so not much greens left in the garden.