Updating on the fourth week into juicing at home. Last week I wrote that a few weeks ago I purchased a juicer, after watching the documentary “Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead” that showed the journey of two men and how they improved their health through juice fasting.
I promised to update with good juice recipes as I discover them, and today my recipe’s all about complementary veggies in a tomato juice (the fruit in the bunch) base.
Here are the ingredients:
Two large ripe slicing tomatoes, washed and quartered
One medium size cucumber (about 9 inches / 2 dia) washed
Two stalks of celery, scrubbed (dirt finds its ways into the ribs so be sure to rinse that out)
One 1-1/2” piece of ginger root
Two medium carrots, scrubbed and the stem tops removed
One large green bell pepper, quartered (no need to remove the seeds or membranes)
About 2 cups of washed baby or “teen” spinach leaves, packed into a measuring cup (pack well, this is key to juicing spinach)
A few sprigs of cilantro mashed into the middle of the spinach
Spices: Ground turmeric, about ¼ tsp,
Cayenne pepper, to taste (my guess is about ¼ tsp for my taste but you could punch up the spiciness with a little more),
Onion powder to taste (again, about ¼ to ½ tsp.)
Sprinkle the spices over the spinach so as the spinach juices, the spices are incorporated. You could add them at the end but this seems to incorporate them well into the juice.
Juice everything… this recipe yields almost exactly 4 cups. You could add a little salt (I added ¼ tsp, which was plenty) or whatever other spices you like, to the finished juice.
This blend tastes healthy, vital, and has a little kick with the spices. Better than the loaded-with-salt over-processed bottled tomato juice “cocktails” out there. The color isn’t V8 red (it’s a green juice), but you definitely get the complementary flavors of tomato-cucumber-celery-pepper and carrot.
Enjoy!
And…
Juicer tip of the day: When juicing soft veg/fruit and hard veg/fruit, alternate the soft with hard. You can “sandwich” soft material between hard and the juicer plunger will extract a lot of juice from the soft which sometimes tends to just fly through the juicer into the pulp container. Just don’t try this with bananas or avocado, as they’ll just gum up the blade rather than juicing.
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