This super delicious green juice is great for kicking off your day in the morning! It’s packed with plenty of nutritious goodies for your body to wake up and get ready for the new day ahead.
The combination of fresh cucumber with the spicy ginger is soothing yet energizing at the same time. I know you’ll love this intensely green juice as much as I do!
Ingredients:
- 1/2 Cucumber
- 10-12 Spinach Leaves
- 1 Kale Leaf
- 2 Celery Sticks
- 1 Green Apple
- 1/2 Lime
If you can’t eat some of the ingredients, feel free to adjust the recipe to suit your diet. Also, you can add a little extra kick with a pinch of cayenne pepper if you want an extra spicy juice today.
Tip: To clean your spinach and kale, you can prepare a quick vegetable rinse. Fill a medium-sized bowl with lukewarm water and add 1-2 tablespoons of vinegar and a pinch of salt. Soak the greens for a few minutes, squeeze out any extra water and rinse under running water.
Helpful utensils:
You’ll need a juicer for this recipe, either a centrifugal juicer or a masticating juicer. If you are new to juicing, check out my guide on how to find the best juicer for your needs.
To make this juicing session even more fun and enjoyable, here are a few useful things you may want to use:
- Vegetable brush for cleaning your ingredients
- Ice cube molds (for those hot summer days!)
- Colored straws to match your juice
Alright, let’s start juicing!
Instructions:
Time needed: 10 minutes
This tasty green juice is easy and quick to make. Start by assembling your juicer and have all the ingredients at hand. Let’s go!
- Wash your ingredients thoroughly
Use a robust vegetable brush to clean the apple, cucumber, celery, and lime under running water. Don’t peel the apple or the cucumber. There are tons of healthy nutrients in the top layers you don’t want to throw away.
- Clean and wash the spinach and the kale
If you’re using organic spinach and kale, rinse them both thoroughly under running water. Otherwise, prepare a quick vegetable rinse (instructions above). When your produce is clean, shake and squeeze out any extra water. Roll the greens into little balls. This makes it easier to juice them.
- Squeeze or peel the lime, peel the ginger
You can choose whether you want to squeeze the lime or toss it in the juicer with the other goodies. If you want to juice it, peel it. Also, peel your ginger.
- Juice it!
Start by juicing the spinach and kale. Then add the ginger, celery sticks, and apple. Finally, finish it all off with the cucumber. It will flush out all the valuable leftovers that might still be in the juicer.
Finish things off by pouring the fresh, green juice over ice. Add a dash of lime juice if you didn’t juice your lime in the machine.
Make sure you serve and enjoy this juice right away. The lime adds some acidity that slows down oxidization, but as with all fresh juices, this one tastes best right after you’ve prepared it.
What’s your favorite green juice recipe for a good energy boost in the morning? Let me know in the comments below!
Happy juicing!
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