LIFE FORCE ENERGY JUICES
These juice recipes are perfect for your centrifugal or cold-press juicer. A centrifugal juicer, such as the Breville, extracts the juice by masticating the vegetables against a blade and separating the liquid from the pulp through a spinning screen, using centrifugal force. These juices should be consumed as fresh as possible, but they can be refrigerated in a sealed container for a few hours if necessary. They do begin to lose their vitality after the first hour.
A cold-press juicer, such as the Norwalk Press, employs a slower extraction process that allows the juice to remain fresh for up to 3 days when sealed and refrigerated. It is best used for preparing several days’ worth of juice at once. All of the following recipes are delicious, smooth, and refreshing when made with either variety of juicer.
Vegetables used for juicing should be organic to avoid toxins and pesticides, as well as any food-grade wax found in conventional produce, such as cucumbers and apples. This will also eliminate the step of having to peel your vegetables; simply rinse and scrub the skins free of dirt before juicing.
Raw, organic, fresh vegetable juices are essential to the modern detox diet. Not to be confused with blended green juices, powdered grasses, or any lesser versions of vegetable juice (such as bottled pasteurized juice), they are the heart and soul of self-healing. These juices deliver pure life force and are the only way to guarantee our reserves of alkalinity—the best health insurance we can ask for in a world where even our air and water are increasingly acidic. Find a few varieties you like and make them a part of your daily routine. Don’t be put off by the effort of juicing or picking up juices at your local organic juice shop. Juicing is fun, and it’s the modern-day fountain of youth.
—NATALIA
Formula One
This is the Rolls-Royce of juices and not for the faint-hearted. It is packed with all green vegetables and revved up with fresh ginger.
1 head romaine lettuce
3 stalks kale
Handful of spinach
3 stalks celery
1 medium cucumber
½ bunch fresh parsley
1 lemon, halved
1 (3-inch) piece of ginger
Liquid stevia (optional)
Put all the ingredients through a high-speed juicer one at a time. Add a few drops of stevia for sweetness as desired.
SERVES 1–2
Sweet’art
Count on your sweet’art to sweeten your green juice with apples.
1 head romaine lettuce
Handful of spinach
3 stalks celery
1 medium cucumber
1 Granny Smith apple
½ bunch fresh parsley
1 lemon, halved
Put all the ingredients through a high-speed juicer one at a time and serve.
SERVES 1–2
Green Lemonade 101
This recipe makes a mellow green lemonade, perfect for the novice juicer.
1 head romaine lettuce
5 stalks celery
2 medium cucumbers
½ bunch fresh parsley
1 lemon, halved
Put all the ingredients through a high-speed juicer one at a time and serve.
SERVES 1–2
Señor Verde
This is a refreshing twist on the old standby, with a Mexican flair. If you can’t take the heat, omit the jalapeño.
1 head romaine lettuce
5 stalks celery
2 medium cucumbers
1 green bell pepper, cored
½ bunch fresh cilantro
1–2 limes, halved
1 jalapeño (remove seeds as desired to reduce heat)
Put all the ingredients through a high-speed juicer one at a time and serve.
SERVES 1–2
V-12
Okay, you counted. This juice doesn’t quite have twelve ingredients, but it is much more powerful than the sum of its parts. Just like the powerful engine it’s named after, this mixed vegetable juice is so smooth and luxurious it will have you purring like a race car in no time.
½ head romaine lettuce
2 stalks kale
Small handful of spinach
2 stalks celery
2 medium carrots
1 cucumber
1 medium beet
1 Granny Smith apple
Put all the ingredients through a high-speed juicer one at a time and serve.
SERVES 1–2
Beet-Dill Juice
Dill in your juice? It’s magic, guaranteed to resurrect the dead.
3 medium beets
4 medium carrots
2 stalks celery
1 small bunch of dill
1 lemon, halved
Put all the ingredients through a high-speed juicer one at a time and serve.
SERVES 1–2
Bunny Milk
The secret to this recipe is balancing greens with carrots. The carrots should comprise one-half of the juice; the other half should be three-quarter romaine and one-quarter spinach. Bunny Milk is a juice but has the density and creaminess of milk. This one will get you hopping!
1 head romaine lettuce
2 handfuls of spinach
6 medium carrots
Put all the ingredients through a high-speed juicer one at a time and enjoy.
SERVES 1–2
Chocolate Bunny Milk
No, Chocolate Bunny Milk does not come from chocolate bunnies but from adding cocoa powder to the delicious concoction above.
Bunny Milk (see previous recipe)
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
Stevia to taste
Slowly add a little bit of the Bunny Milk to the cocoa powder and mix together until it forms a paste. Add the paste to the rest of the juice and shake to blend. Add stevia to heighten sweetness as desired.
SERVES 1–2
Spiced Apple Pie
Liquid apple pie, anyone?
4 Granny Smith apples
1 knob ginger
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon nutmeg
½ teaspoon cardamom
Place the apples and the ginger through a high-speed juicer, then add the spices.
SERVES 1–2
Pretty in Pink
This one is oh-so-pretty and sweet!
2–3 pineapple spears
2 Granny Smith apples
1 medium beet
1 lemon, halved
1 knob ginger
Put all ingredients through a high-speed juicer one at a time and serve.
SERVES 1–2
