Green Juice!! Wonder Juice!!

I recently got a new blender, and have become addicted to making juices! Somehow, I just cant put the effort in to eat an apple a day, but if I chop 'em and blitz 'em in the blender, it makes such a delicious glassful that I want to drink it all day every day... And I love using the blender, because you know the ENTIRE fruit goes into your glass- you don't lose all the delicious pulp like you do in a juicer. Of course, you gotta be considerate of your blender and limit yourself to quite soft ingredients -- if you want something as hard as a carrot you might need to grate it first.

Anyway, the recipe!

Ingredients:

The ingredients...

a banana
a kiwifruit
half a lemon
a lil lump of ginger
a sprig of mint
a few spinach leaves
water
soda water
(makes two small but intense glasses of juice)


Look at all those delicious ingredients! Are you getting keen to mix them all together and taste the goodness? I'm already impatient to make another one. This is my new fave recipe, but its honestly just a handful of random fruit and veg I found in my kitchen; fret not if you dont have all the ingredients, and feel free to add whatever else you think of. I think it'd be hard to make it taste bad if you tried.

Blitzed! Super thick.

After adding soda

So, put all those fruit and veg in your blender! I break up the banana a little, peel and chop into big chunks the kiwi and lemon, cut up that ginger nice and fine, and tear the mint and spinach a bit as I put it in. Then add less than half a cup of water, just enough to make it blend easily, and blitz it in a few short bursts until the consistency is pretty smooth.

At this stage you'll have a very thick mixture, possibly closer to puree than juice, so that's where to soda water comes in. Of course, you could just thin it with normal water, but I personally love that extra fizz. Add around a cup of soda water, or however much brings it to the thickness you like, and serve!

Ta-da!