Juicing on Thursday - Mango with Cucumber

I wanted to kick start my busy cleaning-the-house day with a nutritious beverage that replaces breakfast. Mangoes and nectarines are in plentiful supply at the grocery store right now and not too expensive. I think the mangoes are $1 each.

So I gathered up :
1/2 a cucumber
1 ripe tomato
1 nectarine
1 mango - peel it!

1 cup fresh spinach leaves

Chop everything up, but don't bother removing the skin or seeds from the tomato or cucumber. 

Remove the stone from the nectarine 

and don't use the skin of the mango or the tough fibrous pith inside.

Start up your juicer!

Hurom Slow Juicer

I'm using a Hurom which I blogged about previously here. Juicing With A Hurom

It has to have a permanent 'place' on the countertop because it's so darn heavy!

I mix my ingredients together a little bit before I start pushing them into the juicer.

I find it helps if the spinach goes in first, then the tomatoes, mango and then the cucumber with the nectarine.

The cucumber skin seems to help to push the fruit juices through the grinder inside.

The consistency is quite thick so you could always go ahead and dilute it down a little bit with 1/2 cup of Coconut or Almond Milk. I'm not going to do that today though.

Juice coming through spout on right and the pulp is exiting on the left.

Don't be discouraged by the color, it really doesn't taste as 'green' as it looks!

Just those 5 ingredients made 12 floz of freshly pressed, vitamin packed juice. Since the spinach went in first you might want to give it a swirl with a spoon to distribute the ingredients, but I don't think it matters.

Just delicious! Sweet and fresh tasting and through the mango and nectarine I could definitely detect the coolness of the cucumber.

The pits, skin and pulp will go into my compost bin the contents of which I am hoping to be able
to integrate into my fall veggie beds.

Mangoes have lots of really good properties read here for the scoop on this valuable fruit. Mango Properties

Spring Cleaning, Cleansing & Juicing

What's your definition of Spring Cleaning  Cleansing?

In South Florida we might be forgiven for already shedding our "winter" sweaters, boots, jeans and extra layers and blankets for lighter apparel.....well it did get into the 40'sF a couple of nights.  I'm already reaching for the capri pants, shorts, t-shirts, and the ever popular flip flops, to get me through our steamy 90 ++ degree F summers!

I didn't ask for a December present 2012. I figured that there would be something I would want in the New Year that I would enjoy. So having given it some thought, and a considerable amount of research, I decided a month ago to get myself a juicer.

Huron Juicer

The Hurom slow juicer is a slow, cold pressed juicer. It does not damage the raw ingredients with frictional heat. The Hurom juices anything fresh; almonds, carrots, celery, beets, fruits, veggies - with the exception of ice cubes and frozen vegetables/fruits.

Now that Spring has officially arrived - I thought a little Spring Cleansing of my body was in order to beef up my immune system and flush out all the extra  calories. After all, those numerous winter slow-cooked-beef and lentil dinners, with taters and bread for dunking add up.

So I gathered together some fresh salad.

Salad

Ripe Pear and Tomato 

 I pushed the salad, pear, cucumber and tomato into the juicer.......

Celery, Carrots Up Next

The juicer pours the freshly pressed juice out on the right and the peel and roughage emits from a separate spout on the left. Unlike other juicers, with the Hurom, you don't get a frothy head (think a Guinness) on your fresh juice...not that there is anything wrong with a Guinness either, but not for breakfast.....

Stirred but hold the ice please, but maybe a teeny squeeze of lime juice to perk it up. Fresh and Delicious! This was a breakfast. At noon I was famished and made another juiced drink with blueberries, peaches and pears. My aim is to replace a minimum of one meal a day with a juiced product.

The roughage is like compost-ready-to go. And that's where it goes, straight into the compost. Of course it could be added to a soup, stew or even cookies.

Cons: It's pricey! And the Hurom has quite a few interlocking parts that took more than a few times to get the hang of assembling and disassembling.
Pros: The Hurom Co. include a how-to video and recipe booklet with the machine. Clean up is really easy. Also the the machine is reassuringly solid -  as in, it needs a permanent place on the counter-top because it's heavy! It's quiet. The beverages it produces are awesome. It makes the best fresh orange juice I have ever tasted, and here in the Land Of Orange Trees, you know that a huge plus. 
------ Cheers!

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