Summer in Japan is really hot. Our breakfast in summer is green smoothie, since we travel in France and helping camping site which running by family. They serve green smoothie Straight from their garden, and it was very refreshing and very green. They often used Kale for smoothie, but in Japan, fresh Kale is very rare. So we invented our own smoothie. We always eat same breakfast to support nutritions in a day. I’m concerning about calcium everyday. Because calcium cannot be stored, we need a certain amount of calcium each day. In addition, if you are over 40 years,you cannot decrease the calcium in a body(bone) anymore, if you lack of calcium, body use calcium from your bone,bone will loose calcium and cause osteoporosis.
I choose “Komatuna-Japanese mustard spinach” for green which contain lots of calcium and use sesame and nuts, and put some bit of Matcha for nice flavor.
Here is the recipe of our summer breakfast smoothie!!
Ingredients:
Green Smoothie with Matcha For 2 persons
Komatuna(Japanese mustard spinach)—-2 bunchs
Banana—-1 big size
Soaked almond—-20 grains (Soaked in the water 12H, I put some vinegar to avoid bacteria)
Walnut —1 heaped tbsp
Soya milk—-1 to 1+1/2cups
Raison—-2 tbsp
Matcha powder—-1/4 tsp
Grind sesame seeds—-4 heaped tbsp
Fresh lemon juice—from half of the lemon
Directions:
- cut Komatuna and banana
- put all ingredients except lemon juice and sesame graind into mixer
- put lemon juice and mix with mixer
- put grind sesame seeds in cups and pour smoothie and mixed well before eating.
Lemon juice makes soya milk thick. So I put lemon juice after mixing all the ingredients to avoid stop the mixer.
Adults need 650mg calcium in a day. From this smoothie you can get 400mg of calcium.
Still you need to get calcium from other meal but it helps a lot.