Recipe and source notes

Green Leaf Juice

2 servings Source yield

Ingredients

  • 120 mL (½ cup) freshly-squeezed lime juice
  • 490 g (17 oz / ½ each) pineapple
  • 238 g (8 oz / 6 leaves) Swiss chard or collard greens
  • 124 g (4 oz / 1 bunch) fresh cilantro
  • 26 g (1 oz / 1 piece) fresh ginger root

Make it step by step

  1. Squeeze the lime juice into the container where the juice extractor dispenses the juice.
  2. Cut the pineapple, removing the outer spiny flesh, the top, the bottom and the pithy core.
  3. Cut the pineapple into long thin strips that can be easily inserted into the juice extractor. Run the pineapple through the juice extractor.
  4. Tear the greens into smaller pieces that can be put into the juice extractor easily. Run the greens through the juice extractor.
  5. Run the cilantro through the juice extractor.
  6. Run the ginger root through the juice extractor.
  7. Stir the juice mixture well, and serve the green juice over ice.

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Recipe source

Adapted from Wikibooks Cookbook by Wikibooks contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Formatting adapted; listed quantities and instructions are retained from the source.

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