This weekend on a groggy Sunday morning, I was craving a fresh pressed juice that was uplifting, energizing and purifying. Lots of ginger. And lemon.
Green Juice. I wanted something light and green to serve as my base juice. Dark greens like spinach or kale were a bit to strong and a watery veggie like cucumber seemed a bit too smooth in flavor. I wanted something zesty. With bite. So I chose celery for the slightly astringent bitterness it has when you juice it. I also added in a small green apple for a natural hint of sweetness - but you can make this juice fruit/veg or all mostly veg if you'd like. The end-result juice flavor is vibrant, sassy and crisp - a perfect spirit and palate lifter. Get my recipe...
Custom Juice. For this juice I chose to juice the lemon and ginger separately from the green juice blend (celery and apple). This is a great idea if you are preparing the juice for more than one person. This allows you to customize the amount of ginger/lemon each glass receives. I wanted a lot of ginger, but my husband wanted a tad less.
Celery/Apple blend:
Lemon/Ginger blend:
Ginger Buzz! Ginger is an amazing wellness ingredient. It is stimulating, warming and is famous for it's stomach-easing properties. Ginger will add some sass to any juice - and since the other flavors are so mild in this juice, the ginger really has a perfect ingredient canvas to let it shine.
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Ginger is one of my Perk-Your-Body-Up foods. See the list.
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now onto my recipe!...
Vibrant Ginger Green Tonic
serves 2
2 lemons, peeled (de-seeding optional)
2 tablespoon ginger, peeled
5 large stalks of celery (stems and leaves)
pinch of pink sea salt
sweet ingredient: 1 small green apple OR 2 teaspoon agave/maple syrup
optional garnish: dash of cayenne, some lemon zest, celery stalk
Directions:
1. Gather your ingredients. Juice the lemon and ginger separately. Place juice aside. I did a taste test of this blend and wow! It's incredibly strong. Just a sniff will wake you up.
2. Juice the celery or celery/apple blend.
3. Pour 1-2 parts ginger/lemon blend in each glass. Then pour 5 parts green juice. You can customize the ratio however you'd like though.
4. swirl in some maple/agave syrup if you'd like. *The sweet aspect is important if you did not include an apple in your juice.
5. Pinch of sea salt swirled in, and a dash of optional cayenne on top.
Serve!
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Yesenia Soto says
Hi! My boyfriend is having some serious stomach pains. He's had then for years but they have gotten worse. Doctors dont know what the problem is and I was wondering if you can recommend some juices that'll help.
JonW98223 says
In case you were not aware Pink Salt, is not sea salt not even close, it's called Himalayan Salt and it is by the far the best salt your body will ever digest, because just plain table salt is so dangerous it will kill you. Luckily for me, I have stopped using all forms of table salt because of how harmful it is to our bodies, don't believe me research the facts like I have.
Kathy Patalsky says
blenders can work for some juices...I know some people often blend up whole apples in their high speed blenders. You can actually buy a juicer for a relatively cheap price. Start out with the least expensive one your can find and if you want to upgrade someday you can. Here is my juicer: http://kblog.lunchboxbunch.com/2010/02/meet-my-juicer-juicing-for-health.html
Kathy Patalsky says
thanks!