Yogurt is a healthy way to start the day, and this blender drink goes down easy, even on hot and sticky summer mornings.
Kiwi Yogurt Breakfast Drink
2 kiwi, quartered
1/2 cup plain yogurt
1/4 - 1/2 cup orange juice
10 ice cubes
Blend the kiwi, yogurt and ice cubes until the ice is well crushed. Add the juice a little at a time until you reach a consistency you like. Serve over ice.
Notes: Unripe kiwi are pretty bitter, so be sure you use ripe ones. You can use any soft fruit--peaches, berries, bananas--but then you can't call it Kiwi Yogurt Breakfast Drink.
Yum! If H. hadn't just eaten all the blueberries I picked off the bush yesterday, we'd make some right now!
Maybe we'll try it this afternoon after a trip to the grocery. Peaches are pretty good right now. Kiwis taste too much like bananas for me to like them.
You know, of course, that you will have ALL New Zealanders up in arms if you are serious about putting a kiwi, our NATIONAL BIRD, in the blender!!! :-P
I can't quite imagine what an unripe kiwi looks like....one without feathers??!!
Seriously though, in the Antipodes, we have to make the distinction between 'kiwis' (the bird) and 'kiwifruit' (which you *can* stick in the blender), or people just don't get what you're talking about.
I originally had kiwifruit instead of kiwi, but I couldn't decide if it was one word or two . So I dropped the fruit bit. Everyone knows birds and yogurt don't mix!
Kiwi has an enzyme that breaks down protein in yogurt. So, if you want to drink the kiwi-yogurt drink, you should drink it right after you mix them together. Otherwise...it will taste too bitter and gross.