Abba asked if I would share some of our vegetable juicing recipes… so here they are! Make sure you have a one serving blender.
Obvious Juice
2 large handfuls baby spinach
4 oranges (or tomatoes)
4 carrots
1/2 lemon (or a slice of pineapple)
This is my ‘go to’ juice. It’s easy to remember and jam packed full of nutrients. I call it Obvious Juice because it is Obviously Healthy.
Everyday Juice
3 carrots
1 apple
½ orange
1 celery stick
1cm ginger root
Ginger gives this juice a real kick and makes it invigorating!
Carrot and Apple Juice
8 carrots
2 apples
Slice of ginger
Simple but delicious!
Veggie Cocktail
3 celery sticks
3 tomatoes
2 carrots
½ lemon
Tangy and nice!
CCCA
4 carrots
1 apple
1 celery stick
¼ a cucumber
½ a lemon
Pleasant and refreshing. Good for those who aren’t accustomed to fresh veggie juice.
Metabolic Boost
1 Apple (or pear)
1 grapefruit, peel thinly, leaving the pith,
6 mint leaves
2 sticks of celery
Celery is FANTASTIC in juice as it helps to cleanse and purify the blood. Whenever my husband feels his liver is acting up, he craves celery. It always helps!
Weight Loss Juice
1 tomato
2 stems parsley
2 stalk celery
1 orange
1 spring onion or a clove of garlic
1 grapefruit
1 radish
1 mild capsicum
Tip
When juicing fruits and vegetables, alternate them through the juicer to get the maximum juice from soft fruits. e.g: juice oranges then carrots then spinach.
Green Tip
If you want to start juicing greens but find them a tad overwhelming, start with celery, fennel and/or cucumber. Cabbage is actually quite pleasant too- and very healthy. These make a nice and healthy combination that is quite pleasant and not as overwhelming as spinach, kale or the darker, leafy greens.
My biggest problem with juices is that, while I love most veggies, I hate the common juicing veggies. I cannot stand carrot or celery (I can eat carrot cooked well in something so the flavour is gone, but not raw). I also love tomato cooked, but hate raw tomato. Needless to say I don’t eat too many salads, my salad consists of baby spinach (no lettuce) lots of capsicum and red onion, and avocado. However, that dosen’t juice too well altogether.
These will help me in making juice for the family though, my husband likes carrot and celery and I want to teach my daughter, and future children, to like the taste. I know a lot of the reason I don’t like things as an adult is that I never ate them as a child, we were never given salad as kids so raw veggies aren’t terribly appealing with a few exceptions. So if I can give her nice vegetable juice she will learn to enjoy it the way a lot of people seem to. That’s the theory at any rate.
So, spinach, capsicum, and avocado eh? I’ll have a looksee through my juicing books and see if I can find something there.
It’s wise to take it slow with juicing baby spinach or spinach, It can be too harsh for some people.
If you’re going to look through your juicing books then you should know I do eat lots of veg that aren’t traditional to juice, such as broccoli, pumpkin, zuchini, sweet potato, turnip, etc. Actually, when it comes to all veggies, the only ones I don’t eat are the three I mentioned, plus beans and snowpeas (and probably a couple I’ve never tried lol). I’ve seen that you can juice pumpkin and broccoli etc, but I wouldn’t even know where to start on a nice flavour mix!
Is silverbeet nice juiced in a mix? I’d use the stems as well as the leaves, like celery.
I’d love to get into juicing one day….just not enough space in our 5 ft by 5 ft kitchen:(
Do you juice orange skin and all? Growing up we had lots of carrot and apple, carrot and beetroot, and carrot and milk.
The actual skin itself gives a rather nasty taste, and there is some debate over whether, in large amounts, it’s poisonous. So I take it off. But KEEP the pith, the white stuff, it’s great for you and dosen’t have a horrid taste in juice. Half the vitamins are in there. I just peel it very thinly until the orange is mostly gone and only white remains on the outside.
Hi Katie and Abba,
I used to LOVE eating whole oranges as a child! I loved the bitterness of the skin. Even now I like it but I won’t eat it unless I know it is an organic orange and I wash it well. Sadly, I’m fussy with most fruit skins nowadays – because of chemicals and such. Sad because most of the nutrients are found in or just under the skin.
Even if it were organic, I probably wouldn’t juice the skin because I know that most people don’t like it. A friend of mine even eats kiwi fruit skin – how hairy!
My husban eats kiwifruit skin and I’d never eaten kiwifruit when I met him, so when I asked how they’re eaten he showed me how he ate it like an apple!
It was months later before I found out that’s not how most people do it 😀
My husband loved your everyday juice, and I intend to try the veggie cocktail tomorow.
But I actually came back to say, thank you so much for the obvious juice recepie! I used a whole lemon instead of a half, and purple carrots (im not sure if that makes a difference to flavour, I’ve been told they’re sweeter, but I know it makes a difference to vitamins), and I could barely taste the carrot except a slight aftertaste, it was hidden by the citrus and slight hint of spinach (which was only slight even using two huge handfulls, perhaps because it was baby spinach, thus milder.) This was despite having actually used 5 carrots because I had one leftover.
It’s got me thinking, maybe citrus has a strong enough flavour that I could hide a few other things in it, maybe even a stick of celery lol. I think the baby spinach has something to do with that. Do I need to rotate the baby spinach with other leafy greens like kale? Some people say you need to keep variety, but most other leafy greens are very bitter. Research tells me baby spinach holds just as much vitamin content as full spinach, it’s just more expensive, but is spinach equivilent in vitamins to kale etc?
Anyway, it’s given me hope that I might be able to drink veggie juice yet! I found a veggie juice I like!! lol. I’m going to experiment with citrus and veggies now.
Oh wow, I’m so glad your dh likes the Obvious Juice. Feel free to re-name it, lol. I like it because it’s simple to remember and has a general taste. Enough that most people tolerate it, if not like it. And it has a good range of nutrients in it.
Apparently the purple carrots are high in anti-inflammatory properties and antioxidants so you could be on to a winner there 😉
Have you ever tried pineapple in your juice? YUMMO!! It has a real zing in it. Great for festive occasions like Christmas parties 😉
I believe that kale is the best green of them all… but it is also more bitter than spinach and baby spinach.
So glad you like it and are going to have a play with it. When you come up with a good recipe, drop by and let me know 🙂