Easy Green Juice Recipe - Downshiftology (2024)

This homemade green juice is the ultimate detox for your body. It’s refreshing as can be and a healthy way to enjoy all the micro-nutrients from simple fruits and vegetables year round. Plus, it’s easy to make at home, which means you no longer need to buy expensive pressed juices!

Why You’ll Love This Green Juice

• It’s simple, healthy, and delicious! This green juice is similar to my green smoothie in that it delivers a drinkable form of several wholesome vegetables and fruits. The main difference is that there’s no pulp in this juice.
• You can control the sweetness. Some juice bars will toss in extra fruit to make their versions sweeter, increasing the sugar content. But with this recipe, you can control exactly how much of each ingredient is in your juice.
• It’s a money saver. The price of juice bar drinks is often exorbitant and hard to justify. Especially when you can make the same drink at home – for far less!
• No fancy juicer needed. You don’t need to buy an expensive juicer to make this recipe. All you need is a blender and some way to strain the juice, like a fine mesh strainer or a nut milk bag. Super easy.

Green Juice Ingredients

This recipe delivers a balance of vibrant green veggies and a hint of natural sweetness, from the apples. It’s one of my favorite juice combinations and if you love Pressed Juicery, it’s a copycat of one of their most popular juices.

• Leafy Greens: I’m using a combination of kale and baby spinach, for a complex grassy flavor and gorgeous emerald color. But you can swap in your favorite leafy greens, if you have others you prefer.
• Celery: A few stalks of celery adds fiber, and a subtle saltiness to the juice.
• Cucumber: It’s refreshing and mild in flavor. It’s also the main sources of liquid in this recipe.
• Fresh Ginger: It adds a spicy zing, brightness, and anti-inflammatory benefits.
• Lime Juice: It’s amazing how much lime juice really livens up the flavors.
• Apples: A couple of apples adds to the liquid and provides natural sweetness to balance out the other flavors.

How To Make The Best Green Juice

• Blend all the ingredients. Add all of the ingredients to your high-powered blender, and blend for about 3 minutes, or until it’s smooth. Adding the cucumber first, so it’s closest to the blades, will help it blend easier.
• Strain the juice. Use a fine-mesh strainer to strain the liquid, pressing on the solids with the back of a spoon to extract as much juice as possible. Alternatively, you can also use a nut milk bag (which is my favorite method).
• Chill and serve. Transfer the juice to the fridge until it’s cold. Then, pour into a glass and enjoy! Just remember that the juice may turn a bit brown the longer it sits, but that’s only because the apples oxidize. It’s still fine to drink!

Customize Your Green Juice

Use my recipe as a starting point and experiment with different ingredients based on what’s in season or looks good at the grocery store. Here’s a few tips:

• Add lots of greens. Look for high-quality fresh greens that are firm and bright in color, not wilted or spotted. I use dino kale in this recipe, but other kale varieties or chard work well for blending. If you like romaine lettuce or collards, try those too! A blend of a few greens will give your juice a more complex flavor.
• Stick with a healthy liquid base. Use vegetables like celery and cucumber to provide moisture in your juice blend. Or if you prefer, use coconut water. It’s best not to add lots of fruit or fruit juice so you can keep the amount of sugar down.
• Add some herbs. Parsley and cilantro add an interesting herbal note to your green juice. If you like a stronger parsley flavor, use flat-leaf parsley. Curly parsley is much milder.
• Boost with superfoods. Try adding ground turmeric, cinnamon, maca powder, or bee pollen to amp up nutrition.

Common Questions

More Healthy Drinks

If you’re on a healthy drink kick, here are some other favorites. They’re jam-packed with fresh, good-for-you ingredients!

• Jamu Juice
• Turmeric Tea
• Ginger Shots
• Blueberry Smoothie
• Pineapple Turmeric Smoothie

I hope this green juice makes it into your everyday routine! If you make it, I’d love to hear how it turned out in the comment box below. Your review will help other readers in the community.

Originally published August 2020, but updated to include new photos and videos for your benefit!