Make Spicy Green Detox Juice

Description

One of my favourite new juice recipes. If this is what I have to drink to detox and cleanse then sign me up.

The flavour is very "moreish" with the perfect amount of sweetness to balance out the spicy flavour. It's clean, refreshing and very easy to drink.

Ingredients

• 1 celery stalk

• 1 cucumber

• 2 apples

• 1/2 capsicum (green)

• 1 handful parsley

• 1 ginger knob (2cm)

• 1 jalapeno

Juicing Time: 2 min
Juice Qty:  600ml

Preparation

Celery (10 sec)

• Chop into small pieces (5cm) across the stalks to cut the long stringy fibre

• You can juice the leaves if you like the bitter taste otherwise discard

Cucumber (5 sec)

• Cut in chunks to fit down the chute 

• Juice with skin on

Apples (10 sec)

• Remove the stems and remove any stickers

• Juice apples whole with skin and seeds.

• Cut in half or quarters if too big to fit into the wide chute

Parsley (15 sec)

• Break a handful of parsley from the bunch

• Roughly chop

Ginger (10 sec)

• Cut off a 2cm thick piece

• Cut into thin slices leaving the skin on

Jalapeno (5 sec)

• Cut off the end with the hard stalk

• Cut into half and remove the seeds (you can juice the seeds but only if you like it hot!!!)

  Tip: this one can get real spicy depending on the jalapeños you use and wether you juice the seeds or not. Try slicing a small piece off the end and tasting the spiciness before juicing.

Method

Start making this juice with the cucumber chunks. 

Once they have pressed through the juicer add the celery pieces one handful at a time letting the machine squeeze and press each handful.

Next add the ginger, the jalapeño followed by the capsicum.

Grab a handful of parsley, squeeze into a small ball in your hand and then add the ball to the juicer.

Finish with the hard apples to help push the light parsley through the press.

Healthy Benefits

Drinking green juice daily is one of the BEST things you can do for your health because green vegetable juices are the optimal food for cleansing, purifying, and healing your body.

Green juice contains chlorophyll (the blood of plants) and is remarkably similar to our own blood (haemoglobin).

When you dink a daily glass of freshly extracted, cold pressed green juice your body receives a highly concentrated, powerful, instantly absorbable, living nutrition that can have many benefits for the body.

Look at some of the benefits of green juice:

• Healthy Glowing Skin

• Improved Energy

• Weight Loss

• Digestive Health

• High in Amino acids to build proteins

• High in Vitamin K for calcium

• High in Plant-based Iron