Munchie Monday: Green Juice

Maybe I shared this in the past, but here it is again!  Green Juice by Lenny and Shalva Gale at LifeIsNoYoke which is so good and so easy to make.

We have been having green juice first thing in the morning for a week now.  Part of the reason we made it is because we had some fruit in the refrigerator which was becoming a bit elderly.  I wanted to use it up before it really went bad...! 

This is what we did:

In the blender we put 1 1/2 cups water, 1 apple cored and somewhat chopped, 1 orange peeled and somewhat chopped, 1 lemon slice about 3/4 of an inch thick with peel still on but some of the seeds removed, about 1 inch fresh ginger peeled and cut in half, 2 fresh ripe bananas cut in quarters, a large handful of kale, 1 Tablespoon flaxseed meal and 1 Tablespoon chia seeds, a couple of shakes of red pepper flakes, and 3-4 cups ice.  Put everything into the blender in this order.  Turn on the blender (this is a VitaMix) and quickly increase the speed from 1 to 10 and let it blend for 2 minutes.  It needs that much time to completely liquify the ingredients.  If you don't have a high speed blender, you can still make this but cut up your fruit pretty small and be prepared for it to blend longer.  It will likely need ice cubes when you are ready to drink it if you had to blend longer.

Here it is!  All ready to drink up.  This makes a tall glass for me and a short glass for Dear One (who drinks it but does not love it) plus an additional quart for the next day when we eat get a tall glass.

Our experience is that fresh spinach is MUCH MORE TASTY than the kale in this application!  Eat your kale some other way.

We have now graduated to fresh-from-the-market fruit and will probably include pineapple instead of banana tomorrow since the banana may be beyond the pale by morning.  I am too tired to go downstairs and mush it up and refrigerate it to make banana bread so, this time the banana may "go by".