My husband usually has juicing duties, since I do most of the other cooking. But this morning, he wasn’t feeling well so I decided to make some juice for him. I was going to take a simple approach and just juice some oranges, but by the time that I was done I had created a brand new juice recipe =)
First I juiced six oranges. If you’ve never juiced an orange then you must try it. The juice is so fresh and creamy, ten times more delicious than freshly-squeezed orange juice. You do have to peel the orange before juicing, but that takes no time if you just peel the skin off with your fingers. The six oranges produced around 16 oz of juice. That would have been enough to accompany our breakfast, but then I noticed two apples in the fruit bowl.
As I’ve mentioned before, small apples will fit into the Power Juicer without any prep work. It’s so easy to just pop them into the machine, so I added the two apples to my orange juice.
Around that time, our 3 year old wandered into the kitchen and discovered a mango in the refrigerator. I took it from him as he was about to eat it skin and all and noticed that it needed to be used quickly. Into the juicer it went. Now for the mango, you do have to removed the central pit, which requires some slicing, but I did not peel it. I was surprised to find that only about 2 Tbsp. of thick juice came out when I put it in the juicer.
I thought that the juice might be a little two sweet, so I pulled a couple of stalks of celery out of the fridge and added them. If you’ve never juiced celery, then you probably don’t realize (we didn’t) that it’s very spicy – much like black pepper. It also contains a good bit of sodium which helps balance the sweetness of all of the fruit juices.
While in the fridge, I noticed that we also had some romaine lettuce that needed to be used, and a lot of carrots. I cut the core of the lettuce and added it all to the juicer at once. The deep green juice is so pretty! When I ran the carrots through the juicer, I noticed that more mango juice was finally coming out of the machine. I had read that it’s best to alternate hard and soft produce in the juicer as the hard produce helps the soft produce work through the centrifuge. It seemed like a small point, but it was impressive to see in action. I even juiced a few more carrots just to get the remaining mango out of the machine.
The final produce was delicious. My first experiment with the Jack Lalanne Power Juicer was a success! I drank around 16 oz. and my husband and son each had about 8. I never got around to eating any other breakfast and the juice kept me satisfied until noon. Here’s the recipe if you would like to try it.
Mary’s Morning Juice
6 oranges (peeled)
2 small apples
3 c. Romaine lettuce
2 celery stalks
1 mango, pitted
4 carrots