The Complete Idiot's Guide to Juicing - Ellen Brown [42]
2. Push strawberries, pineapple, passion fruit, and lime through the juicer, and process until juiced. Stir well and pour juice into two glasses.
3. Serve immediately, garnished with pineapple spears if desired.
Variation: To pulp this recipe in a blender or food processor fitted with a steel blade, remove tops from strawberries, peel passion fruit, remove seeds from lime, and cut all ingredients into pieces no larger than 1 inch.
Pulp Tidbits
Passion fruit, native to Brazil, did not get its name because it was rumored to have aphrodisiac qualities. The passion in question is Christ’s crucifixion, because the flower on the tree resembles the Crown of Thorns.
Spiced Blueberry and Banana
1½ cups blueberries
2 pears
2 bananas
1 cup plain soy milk
2 pear wedges for garnish (optional)
Serves 2
Prep time:
less than 10 minutes
Each serving:
319 calories
27 calories from fat
3 g fat
0 g saturated fat
6 g protein
74 g carbohydrates
1. Rinse blueberries. Rinse pears and cut into quarters. Peel and slice bananas.
2. Push blueberries and pears through the juicer, and process until juiced. Pour juice into a blender and add bananas and soy milk. Blend for 30 seconds, and pour juice into two glasses.
3. Serve immediately, garnished with pear wedges if desired.
Variation: To pulp this recipe in a blender or food processor fitted with a steel blade, core pears and cut all ingredients into pieces no larger than 1 inch. If using a blender or food processor, add bananas and soy milk along with other ingredients.
Liquid Lingo
Soy milk is an iron-rich liquid made by pressing soybeans that are ground and cooked. It’s higher in protein than cow’s milk, and it’s nondairy so people who have milk allergies can digest it. It’s not as high in calcium as cow’s milk, but many brands are fortified with calcium.
Blueberry, Strawberry, and Apple
1 qt. blueberries
1 pt. strawberries
2 apples
¼ lemon
2 strawberries for garnish (optional)
Serves 2
Prep time:
less than 10 minutes
Each serving:
288 calories
18 calories from fat
2 g fat
0 g saturated fat
4 g protein
73 g carbohydrates
1. Rinse blueberries and strawberries. Rinse apples and cut into sixths. Peel lemon.
2. Push strawberries, blueberries, apples, and lemon through the juicer, and process until juiced. Stir well and pour juice into two glasses.
3. Serve immediately, garnished with strawberries if desired.
Variation: To pulp this recipe in a blender or food processor fitted with a steel blade, core apples, remove lemon seeds, and cut all ingredients into pieces no larger than 1 inch.
Pulp Tidbits
There are actually a few types of blueberries, which are a crop native to North America. The famed wild blueberries of Maine are tiny and come from low bushes. Most of the crop is still hand-picked using a rake invented in 1822. The majority of today’s blueberries are much larger high-bush berries, with New Jersey, Michigan, and Washington leading in cultivation.
Raspberry, Cranberry, and Grape
1½ pts. raspberries
2 cups seedless red grapes
1 cup cranberries
2 TB. superfine granulated sugar
2 skewers of raspberries for garnish
(optional)
Serves 2
Prep time:
less than 10 minutes
Each serving:
283 calories
18 calories from fat
2 g fat
0 g saturated fat
4 g protein
71 g carbohydrates
1. Rinse raspberries, grapes, and cranberries.
2. Push raspberries, grapes, and cranberries through the juicer, and process until juiced. Pour juice into two glasses, and stir 1 tablespoon sugar into each.
3. Serve immediately, garnished with skewers of raspberries if desired.
Variation: To pulp this recipe in a blender or food processor fitted with a steel blade, add sugar along with other ingredients.
Wrong Spin!
Don’t confuse superfine sugar with confectioners’ sugar. Superfine is finely granulated to dissolve almost instantly, which is why it’s a good addition to juices. Confectioners