Seven Great Juicing Recipes

These are some of my favorite juicing recipes that I continue to make over and over. I love to drink my juice cold, served over ice. Makes it taste better to me. It seems like once I start juicing my body begins to crave it everyday. It is a great way to get lots of fruits and veggies in at the start of the day. Especially for the kids! My kids love helping me juice and they also love to drink it. So when my boys are being picky eaters, and only eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches... I make them a glass of juice and feel much better about what they're consuming for the day!

Hope you enjoy these recipes as much as we do! Some of them I have created on my own and other recipes I have found online and slightly adjusted. For all of the recipes below you will run the ingredient through a juicer, according to the manufacturer's directions. 

Recipe: Serves 1
1 bundle of kale leaves, stems removed
-2 apples, cored and halved
-1/2 pineapple, cored and sliced
-1" ginger, peeled
-1/2 lemon

Recipe: Serves 1-2
-2 oranges, peeled and halved
-2 apples, cored and halved
-2 celery stalks
-2 carrots
-1/2 lemon

 Recipe: Serves 1-2
-1 large golden beet
-2 oranges, peeled and halved
-2 apples, cored and halved
-2 celery stalks
-2 carrots
-1/2" ginger, peeled

Recipe: Serves 1-2

-1 large beet, quartered

-2 carrots
-1 orange, peeled and halved
-1 apple, cored and halved
-2 celery stalks
-1/2" ginger, peeled

Recipe: Serves 1

-1 grapefruit, peeled and quartered

-3 carrots

-1" ginger, peeled

Recipe: Serves 1-2

-2 apples, cored and halved

-2 carrots

-2 celery stalks

-1/2 lemon

-1" ginger, peeled

-5 oz spinach

(Rise and Shine Juice recipe via Giada De Laurentiis)

Recipe: Serves 1-2

 -1 sweet potato, quartered

-4 stalks of celery

-5 carrots

-1 apple, cored and halved

-1/2 lemon

Sauteed Spinach and Tilapia with Chive Oil

We eat this dinner a lot, at least once a week. I love it because it is easy, healthy, and most important... it tastes really good! I buy tilapia fillets, baby spinach, and avocado at Costco; so we always seem to have all the ingredients on hand and it also saves money to buy them in bulk.You can put this dinner together in 20 minutes, or maybe less if you don't have 2 kiddos distracting you. ;) Super easy and super good!

Ingredients:

• 2 tilapia fillets
• 4 to 5 cups of raw baby spinach
• 1 avocado, sliced
• 1/4 cup olive oil, plus 2 tablespoons for sauteing
• 3 tablespoons fresh chives, chopped
• 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary, chopped
• Salt and pepper

Season tilapia fillets with salt and pepper. Now in a small bowl stir together 1/4 cup of olive oil, chives, rosemary, and salt and pepper. Set aside. Heat a large saute pan to medium to medium-high heat and add 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Once the oil is hot add the tilapia fillets. Cook about 3 minutes then flip the tilapia to the other side. After about 1 minute add the raw spinach to the pan and toss until it becomes wilted, about 1 to 2 minutes. Serve the tilapia on top of the cooked spinach. Add the sliced avocado on top of the fish, and drizzle with the chive oil.

Spinach and Asparagus Pasta Salad

This is an easy recipe for a pasta salad that can me added to and easily altered. You can even just use whatever veggies you have on hand and toss it together.

Ingredients:

• Bow tie pasta
• Asparagus, blanched
• Fresh raw spinach
• Toasted pine nuts
• Favorite vinaigrette recipe
• Salt and Pepper

Bring a large pot of water to boil, add the asparagus for only about 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from the boiling water using tongs and place in a bowl of water with ice to stop them from cooking. Next add the pasta to the boiling water and cook until tender, about 10 minutes. Cook the pine nuts over medium heat until toasted. Strain the pasta and let it cool off a bit. Cut the asparagus into small bite size pieces and toss all of the ingredients together in a large bowl. Top with toasted pine nuts. This would also be really great topped with sliced grilled chicken breasts.