The Green Flash
Ingredients
- Ingredients: 1 & 1/2 cups crushed ice 3 good sized avocados - perfectly ripe 1 to 1 1/2 cup sparkling water or seltzer (based upon your desired effervescence level) 1 cup citron style vodka (or another vodka of your choice - but never sweet) 3/4 cup sugar or
- 1. 5 cups Crushed ice ⓘ
- 1.5 cups sparkling water
- 1 cup Vodka (preferably citron) ⓘ
- sweetening, salting, and zesting ingedients ⓘ
- 3/4 cup sugar or 1/2 cup agave
- juice of 6 Limes ⓘ
- 1 lemon (for zesting and also for glass wedges
- small plate course sea salt ⓘ
Instructions
- Preparation: Prep the juice of all limes in a bowl and the zest in another. Prep your salted rim glasses. Scour out the seed from your three avocados - leave chunky in your bowl. In your blender: Add ice and sparkling water, your sweet sugar or agave, juice of all the limes. Blend on low! The blend will foam up due to the sparkling water but let turn off the blender and let settle.
- add in sugar, blend.
- Next add your avocado's blending in two halves of the avocado at a time and depending upon the size of your blending container. Blend on medium until you get all avocados in - then with lids on blend on high for 30 seconds and watch the magical color and texture change as the avocados swirl into a light green cream! Taste - the drink should have the right blend of sweet, sour, salty and sparkly Salt your rims of your glasses with salt and lime zest. Pour the silky mixture into your glass and add a lemon wedge to finish it off!
Nutrition & Diet Analysis (per serving)
187
kcal
9% DV
Protein
Fat
Carbs
* % Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet (FDA 2020).