Energy & Detox, Green Power Juice (This Is ROCKET FUEL!!)
This juice is like ROCKET FUEL and will boost your energy levels, hydration, and give you glowing skin fast.
Equipment
- Good quality, non-heat producing juicer
- Chopping board
- Jug
- Chopping knife
- Strainer such as a sieve or tea strainer (optional)
Ingredients
- 2 extra large cucumbers or 3 smaller.
- 1 punnet grapes green, black, or red.
- 3 lemons
- 3-4 large handfuls greens kale, spinach, green cabbage, or Swiss chard are good.
- 2 large handfuls fresh coriander
- 2 large handfuls fresh parsley
- Extra greens such as microgreens or sprouts optional
- 3 thumb-size pieces fresh ginger
Instructions
- Chop your veggies up into the size that your specific blender will take. Some blenders only have a small chute, so smaller chopping is required. Remove all seeds.
- You can leave the skins on everything, except the lemons. To prepare the lemons, use a sharp knife to peel the yellow skin and as much as the white off as you can. Don't get overly fussy with the white pith as it's harmless and will not hurt your juicer or smoothie taste. Cut the lemon in half and remove all seeds.
- It is recommended to roughly chop your leafy greens up to prevent their fibres blocking up your juicer. However, as mentioned before, this is highly dependent on your juicer quality. Newer, more expensive juicers, may even be able to handle whole fruits with seeds. Check your juicer's specific instructions.
- You're now ready to juice!
- Begin your juicing by adding some harder fruits, such as apples and cucumber to get it going. The idea is to add handfuls of different fruits and vegetables in turn, as this will help get the most nutrients from them. For instance, adding some hard apple, before and after, some greens will help squeeze as much juice out of the dryer greens as possible.
- Keep going until you have juiced everything. You may need to stop intermittently to empty your juice jug into something larger. It is also a good idea to strain your finished juice once or twice with a tea strainer or sieve if you like it really smooth. This can make a world of difference to the finished result, especially in older, or cheaper juicers.
- Store you juice for up to 48 hours in glass containers in your fridge.