3 Refreshing Juice Recipes
Our first juice is packed with the goodness of beets and carrots and the sweetness of apples- ABC juice. Then we’ll prepare a glorious green juice. Each glass of it is packed with the nutrients of so many veggies. And finally, we’ll be making a Clean Carrot juice using a secret ingredient. What’s special about all 3 juices it that you can prepare them within 5 mins. You can replace your evening tea or coffee with these nutritious juices. If you do heavy exercise in the morning, then you can drink them for an energy boost after it. If you want to fast once a week to detox your body, then you can switch them up and drink them. And the next time you have guests coming over, offer them these juices instead of the usual tea or coffee. Keep in mind- all the juices we’ll be preparing today are nourishing juices.
ABC juice
First we’ll prepare ABC juice, which is our apple-beetroot-carrot juice. For this juice, you need 1 apple, 2 medium beetroots, & 6-8 carrots. You can pick any carrot according to the season. This juice tastes great with both orange and red carrots. And finally, for flavour, we’ll add 1 small piece of ginger. First we’ll cut all our ingredients like this so they can easily be added to the juicer. How beautiful Mother Nature has made each fruit and vegetable. Chop your apple and carrots. One by one, add all these ingredients to the juicer. Keep in mind that excess ginger will make your juice pungent & irritate your throat. So add only a small piece of ginger. For extra freshness, you can add a fistful of mint leaves too.
There are 2 kinds of juicers- centrifugal and slow-pressed. The problem with centrifugal juicers is that they produce too much heat and some of the nutrients may be lost because of this heat. On the other hand, a slow-pressed juicer, also known as a cold-pressed juicer, slowly squeezes out the juice, which preserves the nutrients. But don’t worry about it. Use whichever juicer you want. If you don’t have a juicer, no problem! You can use a mixer. Just add all the ingredients and blend them. You can add some water if needed. Then using a thin cotton cloth, take out the juice. Our power-packed ABC juice is ready! This is an excellent post-workout drink, which you can have after yoga or exercise. Children or adults, everyone loves this juice. Be careful not to add any salt, sugar or chaat masala to it. Doing this drains away all its nutrition. For those of you who have Diabetes, please avoid this juice.
Green juice
The green juice we’re going to prepare isn’t like any ordinary green juice. We call it Glorious Green juice. It truly is a super tasty green juice. One glass of this juice gives you the nutrition of so many veggies. To prepare it, you need 2 medium sized cucumbers. If you don’t have cucumbers, you can use a small bottle gourd as well. And if you live outside India, you can take 3-4 celery stalks too. First we’re going to take a fistful of spinach leaves, 1/4 cup mint leaves, 2 medium sized apples. You can use pears instead of them too. And finally, one small piece of ginger. Roughly cut these ingredients. While preparing any juice, try to follow the 80-20 principle. It means you should use 80% vegetables and only 20% fruits. Juices with more fruits are better suited for those who are trying to gain weight. If you want to maintain your weight or decrease your weight, please follow this 80-20 principle. After cutting them, add them to the juicer.
Be carefully to add spinach and mint leaves along with your juicy veggies in between. Doin this will allow your juicer to function smoothly. You shouldn’t dump all the spinach leaves into it together and find that your juicer stopped working. You can add the cucumber with its peel on too if you want, if you’re using a blender to prepare this juice, then first add cucumbers to it so that the rest of the veggies can mix easily with. These cucumber already have so much water that you won’t have to add more water to this juice. Finally, you can add some lemon juice to it. Not too much. Just 1 teaspoon. This will make it even tastier. our Glorious Green juice is ready too!
Clean Carrot juice
Now it’s time for last and most special juice. Preparing this juice always reminds me of a sunset for some reason. I think this juice is like sunset in a glass. To prepare this, we need 2 medium sized carrots. You can pick either orange or red carrots according to season, 2 oranges or mandarin, 1 small piece of ginger, & 3 cups of chopped papaya. Which is our secret ingredient. Cut all your ingredients first. This juice is a perfect option for winters because all its ingredients are available in winter season. The fruity fragrance of oranges, the shining color of carrots, the creaminesss of papayas. I have a lot of fun preparing this juice. We’ll add all the ingredients to the juicer one by one. If you are using a mixer, take out all the seeds of the oranges.
Otherwise, your juice will taste bitter. Papaya will bring a little thickness to this juice which makes it a really filling juice. Whenever we don’t feel like having fruits for breakfast, we take juice instead. What are we going to do with all this leftover fiber & roughage? You can add it as compost to your plants or even use it as a body scrub