Vegetarian Mixed Vegetable Juice Recipe

People’s faces usually go sour when I mention the ingredients in this drink, thinking it would taste bitter or leave a dry taste in their mouths. This drink is far from it and is so good for you. Fruit juices are great for your body, especially your digestive system and so are vegetable juices. The only difference is a lot more thinking has to go into mixing vegetables, because unlike fruit that can 90% of the time go with any other fruit, vegetables work a little differently. Here is one way to mix and match your vegetables…

Ingredients

• 1 one-by-one inch strip of ginger
• ¼ medium beet
• 2 stalks kale, washed and drained
• ½ red or green bell pepper, seeded and membranes removed
• 2 stalks celery
• 5 sprigs watercress or parsley
• 1½ cucumber

1. Press ginger, beet, kale, bell pepper, celery, watercress and/or parsley and cucumber into a juicer. Process until a thin liquid.
2. Pour into tall glasses and serve immediately.

Serves 2

Raspberry Lemonade

Serve this refreshing, thirst quenching drink with fresh mint leaves to give it that extra bit of flavour.

Ingredients

• 2 lemons
• 1½ tbsp raspberries
• 1½ cups filtered water
• 1 tbsp raw, unrefined sugar
• 3 cubes ice

1. Using an electric or hand juicer, juice the lemons. Pour into a blender along with raspberries, water, sugar and ice. Blend until smooth.
2. Pour onto glasses and garnish with a sprig of fresh mint. Serve.

Serves 2

Tropical Tango

When making mango and pineapple juice you will realize that it will be very thick so you might want to add a little mineral water to thin it down and if you love your juices chilled, add plenty of crushed ice.

Ingredients

• ½ pineapple, peeled
• 1 small mango, peeled and pitted
• ½ small papaya, seeded and peeled

1. Using the sharp point of a potato peeler, remove all brown marks from the pineapple. Cut pineapple, mango and papaya into large chunks.
2. Place chunks of fruit into a juice extractor. Once juiced, transfer mixture into a food processor and process until very smooth, which may take up to 3 minutes.
3. Pour into a 1 tall or 2 small glasses with crushed ice. Serve immediately.

Serves 1-2