Sometimes we eat lots of unhealthy food for days together and feel like having food high in micronutrients.
I really enjoy vegetable juice esp during winter when the instinct is to pile up on unhealthy food, I sometimes try to reverse the instinct by piling up on raw vegetables and fruits. Reminds me of IIT Kanpur days where a vegetable juice vendor would be sitting in the hostel and he was the only alternative to (the unquestionably horrible) hostel food. I used to drink those a lot (5 rupees a glass) and I looked my best in those days.
Since we got a juicer also recently and have seen some documentaries like "hungry for change" and "fat sick and nearly dead", I thought I could take juicing raw veggies seriously. Here ar some simple recipes that work wonders for our kitchen.
Apple or pears go a long way in sweetening and giving a good taste to these veggie juices.
My most common recipe is spinach, apple, cucumber( adds lots of volume because of high water content), beetroot (if my maid agrees ot peel it else painful peeling), carrots and ginger.
Saurabh's most common recipe is orange. He just likes fresh orange juice.
This is a list of some recipes that I saw on net and documenting them.
1) Carrot (5-6), Spinach (1 big bowl), Apple (1-2)
2) Cucumber, Spinach, Apple, Celery (1 stick if available)
3) Cabbage, Carrot, Cucumber
4) Cucumber (3-4), ginger (a small piece), coriander (half fist)
5) Green Grapes and a stick of celery
6) Apple, carrot, strawberry
Basically ginger and apple/pear will bail you out regardless of how bitter rest of the veggies are.
Here is another link I found and it can help you further.
http://www.raw-foods-diet-center.com/vegetable-juicing-recipes.html
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I think our most common dish has become roasted broccoli with garlic. It tastes yummy. Just oven roast broccoli with garlic and you can add baby potatoes (my microwave which I got as marriage gift has roast button also so I roast in it for 20 mins). Very tasty and filling.
I really enjoy vegetable juice esp during winter when the instinct is to pile up on unhealthy food, I sometimes try to reverse the instinct by piling up on raw vegetables and fruits. Reminds me of IIT Kanpur days where a vegetable juice vendor would be sitting in the hostel and he was the only alternative to (the unquestionably horrible) hostel food. I used to drink those a lot (5 rupees a glass) and I looked my best in those days.
Since we got a juicer also recently and have seen some documentaries like "hungry for change" and "fat sick and nearly dead", I thought I could take juicing raw veggies seriously. Here ar some simple recipes that work wonders for our kitchen.
Apple or pears go a long way in sweetening and giving a good taste to these veggie juices.
My most common recipe is spinach, apple, cucumber( adds lots of volume because of high water content), beetroot (if my maid agrees ot peel it else painful peeling), carrots and ginger.
Saurabh's most common recipe is orange. He just likes fresh orange juice.
This is a list of some recipes that I saw on net and documenting them.
1) Carrot (5-6), Spinach (1 big bowl), Apple (1-2)
2) Cucumber, Spinach, Apple, Celery (1 stick if available)
3) Cabbage, Carrot, Cucumber
4) Cucumber (3-4), ginger (a small piece), coriander (half fist)
5) Green Grapes and a stick of celery
6) Apple, carrot, strawberry
Basically ginger and apple/pear will bail you out regardless of how bitter rest of the veggies are.
Here is another link I found and it can help you further.
http://www.raw-foods-diet-center.com/vegetable-juicing-recipes.html
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I think our most common dish has become roasted broccoli with garlic. It tastes yummy. Just oven roast broccoli with garlic and you can add baby potatoes (my microwave which I got as marriage gift has roast button also so I roast in it for 20 mins). Very tasty and filling.
