Acai Super Smoothie Breakfast of Champions...

It is not every day that one can linger and create elaborate feasts first thing. More often that is the preserve of lazy Sunday mornings. Sometimes we need something fast, we are on the go. This smoothie, so fresh and vibrant is one of the healthiest and fastest breakfasts known to man. It is the racehorse of early morning starts that will have you tugging at the bit. Acai berries the most nutritionally dense berry on the planet with a deserved reputation for health giving benefits, are found in Brasil on very tall, graceful, slender palms. Pronounced 'Ah-Sigh-EEE'.  This little berry is the breakfast choice of millions across South America. Some start their day with Acai mixed with yoghurt and granola and some take it as a juice. Whichever way all agree it is the 'Breakfast of Champions'. The taste of Acai is complex and to describe it as a chocolate-tasting berry would be right, but also very wrong. In taste terms it is unique, like the invention of a new colour. It is without a doubt however, really delicious.

Joining the Acai berry in the blender and adding to this vitamin rich mix are some ripe bananas, a handful of blueberries, some organic apple juice and a squeeze of local honey to sweeten. Incredibly simple to make and so very good for you. It does take some preparation as Acai I know is not something you would find in the supermarket. It takes a little bit of searching, best purchased in frozen pulp blocks. To make friends with your local 'Acai wallah' is indeed a worthwhile thing. I guarantee you will make a new friend, generally full of life and laughter. If yours turns out to be grumpy let me know and I will introduce you to mine.

This breakfast is off the scale in terms of daily vitamins, anti-oxidants and omega-3’s, this super smoothie  quite literally could save lives. It will take you way past lunchtime and beyond in terms of energy. I can vouch that for a month of Acai for breakfast you will not only have made a new friend, but it will make you feel like, well you, but a fitter, sporty, sharper, better looking and possibly more funny you.

Acai Super Smoothie
Makes 2

2 ripe bananas
2 200gm sachets frozen Acai pulp
6 ripe strawberries
2 handfulls of blueberries
1 wine glass organic apple juice
2 generous tblspns of honey

First you need to smash your Acai up in the sachets, it freezes very hard in its packets so save the blender from straining and having a short life put it in a mortar and pestle and give it a big old smash. Wrapped in a clean tea towel and whacked with a brick would do it. In fact any method you like. 

Next peel and toss the bananas in, wash, top and hull the strawberries and then the blueberries. If you like things sweet then by all means add in more honey and finish with the apple juice. Now whizz together into a smooth drink. It really could not be any simpler. Decorate and serve with a straw. Your day will most definitely be off to a great and healthy start.

Acai can be purchased via The Guarana Bar, Sydney Street, Brighton. Ask for Johnny Guarana, he makes the best Acai this side of Rio de Janeiro - tell him I sent you. x