Drinks
Basil detox drink
This is a refreshing detox drink with basi that is tasty and healthy. Make this anti-inflammatory recipe more regularly to reduce inflammation, improve digestion and your skin, it's ready in around 5 minutes.
This is a simple detox drink with basil that is full of antioxidants, alkalizing and refreshing during summer. It’s a great anti-inflammatory recipe that you can make every day, it only takes 5 minutes!
Update: This is one of the first recipes we posted when we started our blog 5 years ago. We kinda cringe when we read some of the things we wrote here, but we're not gonna change a thing…except for the pictures and we'll add one or two changes to make this recipe more anti-inflammatory. We just made it today again after we lost about half of our weight in sweat and it’s satisfying, refreshing and healthy! Give it a try. Here goes 2015 Gaical:
These last few days have been CRAZY.
Like Aerosmith crazy. We wish.
As much as we would’ve loved to be Alicia Silverstone or Liv Tyler in that video, and do all those crazy things like be in a strip club and drive a car in the sun, the sad truth is: we are not.
Instead we were stuck here behind closed doors for about 3 days, making our blog and trying to put every detail into place.
And now we're happy with it. True it might have cost us 20 hours less sleep and 3-days sun deprivation, but who’s counting? We wasn’t the only one thrilled with the results of our website: all the spammers who took it down for 12 hours seemed to like it as well.
Before we fall asleep in 1 minute, we want to give you the recipe for the basil detox smoothie that saved our life these days.
It’s almost not a smoothie anymore and more like an alcohol-free mojito without sugar and whatever they put inside.
Okay. We have actually never had a mojito. We like pina colada.
But we can guarantee you, this smoothie is more refreshing, satisfying and happy-making than any alcoholic drink in the entire beautiful universe.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY BENEFITS
With basil, lemon and apple this detox smoothie is a solid way to start your day. It makes you wake up – like that. We just snapped our fingers. Sometimes we also add a little bit ginger for more anti-inflammatory properties and better digestion.
Forget about coffee and all that acidifying crap. This basil detox smoothie is refreshing and can even keep a person who hasn’t seen sunshine in 3 days and hasn’t slept in 36 hours, alive, fresh and in quite a good mood. Tested. By us.
This recipe is:
- alkalizing
- anti-inflammatory
- anti-bacterial
- antioxidant
- detoxifying
- collagen-boosting
We must admit it’s a little sour, because of the lemons, but this gives it that special something that makes us awake and fresh. You can also choose to not add that many lemons if you wish.
Our basil detox smoothie also gives a nice glow to the skin of a half asleep person. Everyone was like – “Look she’s sleeping. But her skin though. It’s glowing.” They’re all just jealous.
Read also: How To Make An Anti-Inflammatory Smoothie
- Yield: 4-5 glasses
- Prep: 5 minutes
- Total: 5 minutes
Ingredients
- 1-2 Lemons
- 2 Apples
- handful basil leaves
- 1 tsp grated ginger (optional)
Method
- Squeeze the lemons to lemon juice.
- Wash and cube the apples
- Wash the basil leaves
- Put everything in your blender, add water (we added 3-4 cups) and blend until smooth. (Choose speed depending on your blender, we blended it at low speed - as far as we know and from our own experience this is the best to get a smoother texture).
- Add some ice cubes and enjoy!
Notes
We added 2 lemons, but the drink was a little sour. We enjoyed it, but if you don't enjoy sour recipes too much, we would suggest starting with one lemon and adjusting from there. You can always add more lemon if needed.
