NOTE FROM EVA: This recipe is my own, which means you are welcome to share it with your friends, on the internet, with your family. I would love to see you pass it around. But please, do give me credit and use the quick blurb right below the recipe.
I was so pleased when I discovered that such few ingredients could make something so ridiculously good. Not only that, but a friend even lost several pounds over the course of the week when she was drinking these daily. You may like to know that coconut, even though it seems counter-intuitive considering the large percentage of fat, often has the power to eliminate extra weight.
INGREDIENTS
- Water/Juice of 1 young Thai Coconut
- 1/8 cup coconut nectar or 1 frozen banana
- 1 cup ice
- 1 vanilla bean, scraped (optional)
- Pinch salt (optional)
INSTRUCTIONS
- BLEND!
- And enjoy — we had this 3 days in a row last week. It is SO GOOD! I dare you to not drink the whole thing. (We have no idea if it is good later, never saved any).
HINTS & TIPS
- Fresh vanilla beans are amazing but so very expensive in grocery stores. I find that the cost averages about $5 per bean in the store, but buying online in bulk online costs me closer to $1 or less per bean.
- If you do not have a high-speed blender, you’ll want to cut the vanilla open and use a “butter” knife to get the thousands of small beans out of the inside. If you do have a high-speed blender, you can actually throw the whole thing in there, bark and all.
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PLEASE TAKE NOTE! Would you like to use this recipe in your e-zine or on your website? You can, as long as you include the below blurb and link to the newsletter along with it.
This recipe was originally found in Raw News Bites, Eva Rawposa’s free weekly e-zine for raw food lovers and anyone looking to feel great. You can get your FREE recipes and tips, and your free subscription to Raw News Bites, at www.uncooking101.com. PLUS you will receive a link to download Eva’s book “Around the World in 8 Easy Recipes” when you sign up, as your WELCOME GIFT!
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ANY QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? Just type whatever you have to say below. We’d love to hear from you, no matter what it is. Well, as long as it is related to the smoothie in some way! 
[...] the scoop of ice, and bam, that is a drink no one could resist! But why should they? The young boy even got to turn the dial on the Vita-Mix, which he sure had [...]
Sounds fantastic, can’t wait to try it.
This sounds heavenly. I’m headed to the store to get the young coconut right now! Seriously!
What’s the difference between the coconut water and juice?
Hey Danika,
I’ll be straight up… I created this recipe several years ago, and I can’t figure out why I would have mentioned both water and juice. In my mind it is one and the same, so maybe I was trying to cover what different people might call it. So pick your name; I just was referring to the liquid inside of the coconut! lol!
xxo Eva