You might - if you're of an adventurous gastronomic bent - have met with fennel in a soup or perhaps braised with butter and parmesan (sounds yummy right?)

But a drink containing fennel seems somewhat outlandish. Fear not! Set aside your skepticism and have a go at this fennel smoothie recipe, delicious as it is simple to make.

The orange in this recipe works sympathetically with the aniseed taste of the fennel. The addition of spinach adds in extra goodness and flavor.

Not convinced - read about the health benefits of fennel.

Ingredients

1 stalk fennel bulb and leaves
2 oranges
1 banana
3 cups spinach
2 cups water

Method

Chop the fennel roughly and blend together with the water and the spinach. Add in the remaining ingredients.

People beginning juicing tend to opt for sweet, fruit and berry-heavy juices because they most closely resemble the sorts of juices they are used to buying at the store.

There's nothing wrong with fruit juices but one of the big ideas about juicing is to persuade ourselves to consume more of those vegetables we're generally reluctant to tackle on our plates.

This juice represents a nice easy take on a green juice - it contains the superfood spinach but lightens this out with light flavours of celelery and cucumber.

Cucumber - mildly-flavored and very watery - is particularly apt for 'lightening' out 'darker' green flavors like spinach and broccoli.

Ingredients

• 2 celery stalks
• 2 cucumbers
• 1 small green pepper
• handful of spinach

Blend until smooth. Add filtered water if necessary.

This cranberry smoothie combines other berries for a truly powerful anti-oxidant rush.

Cranberry Smoothie

• 2 cups cranberry juice
• 250ml natural yoghurt
• 1 cup rasperberries
• 1 cup blueberries
• ice cubes

Coconut Pineapple Smoothie Recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup coconut flesh
1/2 cup coconut milk
1 cup pineapple juice (freshly juiced from your juicer)
1/2 cup pineapple chunks
1/2 banana
Handful of ice

Directions:

Pulse together the pineapple juice, banana and ice. Finally add in the coconut flesh

Blend the coconut milk, pineapple juice, ice, and banana together until a slushy texture is formed. Add the pineapple chunks and coconut flesh and blend until smooth.

A very stimulating drink that is very straightforward to make 

Ingredients

½ Cantaloupe Melon
240ml Apple Juice 
Two handfuls Cherries, stoned
One handful Raspberries
4 Ice Cubes

Method

Simply place all of the Ingredients in your blender

Clean, light and refreshing celery is both extremely healthful and an ideal component of many fantastic juice concoctions.

It's light taste and high-yielding nature means it can be used in virtually any drink of your devising.

It works particularly well with carrot and apple, however, as in this super-simple juice.

Celery Carrot Apple Juice

4 apples
2 carrots (scrubbed if organic, peeled if not)
2 celery stalks

Method
Place apples, celery, carrots into the juicer. Server over ice if desired and pep up if necessary with a squeeze of lemon juice.

In this basic cauliflower juice the volume is provided by the more yielding cauliflower and apples. The relatively high quantity of cauliflower will not yield massive amounts of liquid.

It's important to note that cauliflower will extract better in masticating juicers rather than centrifugal juicers

Basic Cauliflower Juice

Ingredients

200g cauliflower
100g cucumber
200g apples

Method

First juice the cucmber and apples. Feed the cauliflower through throught the juice last. Serve over ice if desired. 

]]> http://www.myjuicerecipes.com/basic-cauliflower-juice/feed 0 http://www.myjuicerecipes.com/basic-carrot-smoothie http://www.myjuicerecipes.com/basic-carrot-smoothie#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:07:05 +0000 admin http://www.myjuicerecipes.com/?p=2353 The wonderful thing about carrots is that you can enjoy their sweetness knowing that this sweetness does not in any way diminish their goodness - antioxidant, good for your eyes and packed full of vitamins.

The addition of mango to this simple carrot smoothie, creates a colourful, vibrant and energising drink.

Ingredients
4 medium carrots
Flesh of 1 mango
3-4 Ice Cubes

Directions

Place all ingredients in the blender or smoothie maker and blend gently until smooth. Makes two regular glasses.

This basic carrot juice recipe is a nice clean drink enlivened with orange and a touch of mint.

Basic Carrot Juice Recipe

Ingredients

8 Large Fresh Cleaned Carrots
2 Large Fresh Peeled Oranges
1 Large Fresh Mint Sprig

Method

1) Peel the oranges if not organic ; just scrub them a little if they are organic.
2) Juice the oranges (with a citrus juicer); add the juice to your juicing jug / glass.
3) Juice the carrots in your juicing machine and decorate with some mint.

One way to do that is to focus on smoothie with a generous measure of sweet fruit in them - such as this delicious broccoli mango strawberry smoothie.

Simple to prepare and exceedingly good for you.

Broccoli Mango Strawberry Smoothie

1 whole mango2 cups of broccoli florets
1 cup fresh strawberries
1 cup of water
1 cup of ice
1 inch of ginger – peeled

Method

1. Remove the skin from the mango and retrieve as much of the flesh as possible

2. Add all the ingredients into your blender, water and ice last.

3. Pulse until well blended, adding more water if necessary.