Topic: Vegetable juice recipe??

[Chrissie]

Hi - I've just become the proud owner of a juicer (£5.99 from Asda - works great and best of all is easy to rinse out!!).

Only problem is I haven't yet produced anything in the vegetable line (fruit is easy) that's actually palatable, never mind delicious. I've experimented with white chard stalks, sweet baby turnips and courgettes with a bit of celery added (and a dash of salt) but the juice is definitely lacking something ... in fact it's disgusting. Shame because I like all the ingredients and there are masses of them.

Would appreciate any recipe ideas.

Thanks!!

[Ishard]

•   6810 g fresh tomatoes
•   250 g chopped celery
•   3 large onions, peeled and cut into chunks
•   1 green bell pepper, seeded and chopped
•   2 medium beetroots
•   4 carrots
•   3 cloves garlic, peeled
•   50 g sugar
•   2 g black pepper
•   10 ml prepared horseradish
•   80 ml lemon juice
•   5670 ml water, or as needed
•   15 ml Worcestershire sauce, or to taste
•   200 g white sugar
•   70 g salt, or to taste
•   
•   Juice eight large carrots
•   Juice one half large beetroot
•   Juice one half turnip
•   Juice one half parsnip
•   Juice five large celery stalks
•   Juice one eighth head red cabbage.
•   Juice five radishes
•   Juice one large Granny apple
•   Juice one cup cranberries (in season

[Ishard]

•   Juice eight young carrots
•   Juice one small beet
•   Juice one half turnip
•   Juice one half parsnip
•   Juice three large individual celery stalks
•   Juice one large sweet apple
•   Juice one large pear
•   Juice10 strawberry's
•   
•   Juice 12 small carrots
•   Juice 1/2 purple top parsnip
•   Juice 4 individual celery stalks
•   Juice 1 small beet
•   Juice 1 large sweet apple
•   
•   Juice 1 small beetroot.
•   Juice 1 pear.
•   Juice 1 sweet apple.
•   Juice a small piece of ginger 2 inches max.
•   Juice 4 individual celery stalks.
•   Juice 10-12 carrots.
•   Juice 1 small parsnip

Hope these help :)

Jackie

[Chrissie]

Wow Jackie those sound fabulous, thank you!

I notice you include something sweet in all of them - carrots, apples etc. That may be where I was going wrong.

Can't wait to try them. Thanks again for your help  :)

[Ishard]

You are very welcome Chrissie :)

I add something sweet to sort of balance the taste as it seems to make the flavour more rounded if you know what I mean?

[Chrissie]

So sorry only just noticed you'd posted again. Yes you're right, sweetness seems to be necessary to offset the bitterness of some veg. I've been experimenting with the ingredients you suggest and they're lovely. Even just adding carrot or apple to my original disastrous combination makes a huge difference. A sprinkle of celery salt is nice too!

 

[PurpleHeather]

Is the failed drinking juice any good to use as a stock base?

[Chrissie]

Hi PH, yes I did use up the original lot in soup in the end. Shame to waste all that goodness.

[grannyjanny]

My favourite is carrot, apple, ginger & chili. I put the chili between the something, the carrot or the apple. Take the seeds out first. It gives a real kick of an aftertaste of the ginger & chili.
Janet.

[Chrissie]

Sounds lovely for a cold day!

[debster]

i have one of those juicers i googled and found a web site with hundreds of recipes i did look in my favourites but its not there, if you google juicer recipes though you will get loads

[Chrissie]

You're right Debster, thanks.

It's nice to hear other people's personal favourites and tried-and-tested combinations too!

[oakmore2]

Carrot, apple and ginger - YUM!!

[Ishard]

I echo that YUM!  ;D Just tried it  ;D

So much easier to do than my recipes, thank you.  :)