After this first week of Roland Garros, you want to resume tennis but you lack the energy.

Olivier Poels found the solution!

The culinary columnist of Europe 1 gives you the recipe for the Roland Garros smoothie, this drink created in the 1960s to boost before a workout. 

The sun is beating down on the tennis courts and a little refreshment would do the greatest good.

There is a perfect drink before going to play tennis or watch the matches on its screen: the Roland Garros smoothie.

The culinary columnist of Europe 1 Olivier Poels tells you about the origin of this drink and gives you his recipe on the program

Historically Vôtre

on Europe 1. 

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The smoothie, as its name suggests, comes from the United States and a particular region of the United States, which is known precisely to promote a healthy lifestyle: California.

In the early 1960s, Steffan Keno invented this preparation to replace the Milk Shake for people allergic to cow's milk.

The idea was also to give a real energy drink and exclusively made from fruits or vegetables.

There is therefore no yogurt, no milk or ice in the smoothie.

A delicate balance

The sweetness, the "smooth" side, is due to a balance.

It must always be respected when making smoothies: smoothness is often provided by banana, acidity by orange or lemon, sweetness by apple or strawberry and sometimes the tonic of vegetables with carrot. , celery or tomato.

All the fruits are mixed together.

Juice is then added and it gives a kind of texture which is different from a fruit juice.

If you take orange juice, the texture is extremely runny.

It's the same for apple juice.

The smoothie has a texture that is close to that of a creamy milkshake.

The fruit is mixed in its entirety unlike the fruit juice.

This gives an intermediate texture between the fruit juice and the compote. 

Among all the smoothies, there is one called the Roland Garros.

Its color is somewhat reminiscent of the clay courts, but we do not know who invented it.

Here is the recipe. 

The Roland Garros smoothie recipe

Ingredients

  • 3 strawberries

  • 4 raspberries

  • 1 pineapple slice

  • The juice of 3 oranges

  • The juice of 1 lemon

  • 1 tablespoon of grenadine syrup

  • 1 pinch of sugar

Recipe 

Mix it all