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Green Leaf Juice

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 2 Difficulty: medium

Categories: Drink, Vegetarian, Vegan

Tags: raw, recipes for beverages, recipes using chard, recipes using cilantro, recipes using collard greens, recipes using fresh ginger, recipes using lime juice, recipes using pineapple, recipes with metric units, vegan, vegetarian, very easy

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AGreen_Leaf_Juice)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AGreen%20Leaf%20Juice&oldid=4509810

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 120 mL (½ cup) freshly-squeezed lime juice
  • 490 g (17 oz / ½ each) pineapple
  • 238 g (8 oz / 6 leaves) Swiss chard or collard greens
  • 124 g (4 oz / 1 bunch) fresh cilantro
  • 26 g (1 oz / 1 piece) fresh ginger root

Directions

  1. Squeeze the lime juice into the container where the juice extractor dispenses the juice.
  2. Cut the pineapple, removing the outer spiny flesh, the top, the bottom and the pithy core.
  3. Cut the pineapple into long thin strips that can be easily inserted into the juice extractor. Run the pineapple through the juice extractor.
  4. Tear the greens into smaller pieces that can be put into the juice extractor easily. Run the greens through the juice extractor.
  5. Run the cilantro through the juice extractor.
  6. Run the ginger root through the juice extractor.
  7. Stir the juice mixture well, and serve the green juice over ice.

Equipment

Juice extractor, Knife, Cutting board

Notes

Kale can be used instead of chard or collard greens, but it is more bitter.

Measurements are listed as exact but precise measuring is not needed.