Cranberry Smoothie

admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:30:24 +0000

A versatile and delicious fruit that's great for your overall health. Highly anti-oxidant and particularly good for your urinary health.

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

Cranberry Smoothie

Ingredients

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

MethodAdd all of the ingredients to your blender or smoothie maker and pulse until smooth.

Coconut Pineapple Smoothie

admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:57:01 +0000

A real tropical treat perfect in the height of summer - or perhaps in the depth of winter to remind you of sunnier times / climes! Combining all the health benefits of cocoonut and pineapple this is a rich, delicious smoothie that's guaranteed to have you smacking your lips.

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.

Cherry Melon Berry Smoothie

admin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:18:31 +0000

On the domestic scale cherries are principally suited to smoothies rather than juices. This great-tasting smoothie combines the plays off the yin of the melon with the yang of the raspberries.

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

Celery Carrot Apple Juice

admin — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:02:07 +0000

If you had to think of a vegetable ideally suited to juicing beyond the very obvious ones such as apples or carrots, celery may well spring to mind.

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.

Basic Cauliflower Juice

admin — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:09:22 +0000

It's clearly not a vegetable that is going to yield a lot of juice of itself, but the health benefits of cauliflower make it a desirable addition to juices composed primarily of other fruits and vegetable.

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.

Basic Carrot Smoothie

admin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:07:05 +0000

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.

Basic Carrot Juice Recipe

admin — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:17:29 +0000

It's true of juicing staples such as carrots that there is an almost infinite variety of juices you could make with them. Either as the protagonist in a juice or as a sweetening or colouring agent, carrots along with apples are the building blocks of so many delicious juices and smoothies.

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.

Broccoli Mango Strawberry Smoothie

admin — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:13:21 +0000

If you're not really a hardcore green smoothie enthusiast yet, you maybe need to break yourself in gently into the green smoothie routine.

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.

Broccoli Smoothie

admin — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:11:13 +0000

If you've done a little research about the benefits of juicing and making smoothies, you'll no doubt have read about the virtues of 'green smoothies'.

This broccoli smoothie - accompanied by carrots, spinach, apple and orange juice - is a very well balanced green smoothie.

The sweetness of the apples, carrots and orange juice offset the 'heavier' tastes of the green vegetables.

Give it a go - you'll be surprised by just how delicious green smoothies can be.

Broccoli Smoothie

Ingredients

1 Carrot (washed and scrubbed if organic; peeled in not)
50 g Broccoli florets
1 1/2 cups Spinach
125 g Apple juice
200 g Orange, juice

Method

Chop Carrot and Broccoli and add to your blender and blend until well combined. Add more juice to thin out, if desired.

Broccoli Fruit Juice

admin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:45:15 +0000

Broccoli is very rich in vitamin C. Add in the vitamin C content and vitality of orange juice and the phytonutrient goodness of apples, kiws and ginger and you have a wonderfully refreshing and healthy juice.

A perfect juice for kick-starting the day or re-invigorating the senses if you feel a little jaded.

Broccoli Fruit Juice

1 orange
1 apple
1 kiwi
1 handful of broccoli
2 cm fresh ginger
2 tbsp linseed/flaxseed oil (f you have this, if not - omit)

Method

1. Hand juice the orange on a citrus juice and reserve the liquid.

2. Next juice the apple, kiwi.

3. Add in the ginger and then the broccoli.

4. Pour in the flaxseed/linseed oil and mix well.

5. Serve over ice if desired.