The Complete Idiot's Guide to Juicing - Ellen Brown [37]
2. Push peppers, celery, mango, orange, and lime through the juicer, and process until juiced. Stir well and pour juice into two glasses.
3. Serve immediately, garnished with bell pepper slices if desired.
Variation: To pulp this recipe in a blender or food processor fitted with a steel blade, remove seeds from orange and lime and cut all ingredients into pieces no larger than 1 inch.
Wrong Spin!
This is one recipe you should follow closely. If you use green peppers or even red peppers instead of the orange peppers, the juice has a most unappealing color!
Part 3
Fruity and Fantastic
Picture Carmen Miranda, or Chiquita Banana for that matter, with a colorful headdress of fruit and a samba playing in the background. Fruits are nature’s succulent gifts, and the recipes you’ll find in this part glorify them.
Juices are almost synonymous with fruit, and juicing is a great way to enjoy and combine them. The recipes are divided by which type of fruit comprises the largest percentage of the juice, but you can always add other fruits to the mix and get delicious results.
Chapter 10
Tree-Ripened Treats
In This Chapter
• Juices based on ever-popular apples
• Spectacular summertime juices with peaches and pears
• Great ways with grapes
This chapter features recipes that highlight fruits that come from deciduous trees and vines. So for Americans in the summer and fall, these crops will be local and lively.
While pears are better ripened off the tree so they don’t turn mealy (a botanical fact that aids their transportation as well), all other fruits reach their peak of flavor when they’re allowed to ripen attached to the tree on which they were grown.
Feel free to use the large range of recipes in this chapter as a springboard to your own concoctions. For example, if you have nectarines locally but not peaches, then feel free to experiment.
Blossoms to Bounty
A fruit tree is basically any tree that forms fruit in the ripened ovary of a flower containing at least one seed. But over the centuries we’ve come to use the term only for trees that produce fruit that humans eat. In the larger sense, nut trees, such as walnut and pecan, can also be considered fruit trees.
This fruit is produced in a form of botanical sex through a process called pollination. Pollination is the transfer of pollen, which is the male part of the flower, to the stigma, which is the female part of the flower. This transfer of pollen is needed for fruit to set and seeds to develop.
For this process, the honey bee is the trees’ best friend. And this is why honey is classified by the pollen the bees have moved around—ranging from common clover to exotic orange blossom or lavender.
Vintage Vines
While grapes grow on woody vines rather than trees, their fruit falls into the same category as that of deciduous trees. Literally thousands of varieties of grapes are grown, divided by color as well as by purpose.
In general, the wine varietals like cabernet or chardonnay are not pleasant to eat off the vine because of the same high acid content that creates complexity in wine. Conversely, table grapes with low acidity would make very bland wine. While concord grapes are the ones most often used in grape juice, they’re hard to find in supermarkets.
Gingered Apple and Pear
3 apples
3 ripe pears
2 TB. sliced fresh ginger
2 tsp. hoisin sauce
2 apple slices for garnish (optional)
Serves 2
Prep time:
less than 10 minutes
Each serving:
273 calories
9 calories from fat
1 g fat
0 g saturated fat
2 g protein
72 g carbohydrates
1. Rinse apples and cut into sixths. Rinse and quarter pears.
2. Push apples, pears, and ginger through the juicer, and process until juiced. Pour juice into two glasses. Stir 1 teaspoon of hoisin sauce into each glass.
3. Serve immediately, garnished with apple slices if desired.
Variation: To pulp this recipe in a blender or food processor fitted with a steel blade, core apples and pears, peel ginger, and cut all ingredients into pieces no larger