Homemade Green Machine Juice to help reset your body, detox, and pump you full of vital nutrients to instantly increase energy and gut health! This green drink is delicious, refreshing, and simple to make in both a juicer or blender.
This drink is a great way to get your daily dose of green vegetables instantly, with similar ingredients to this green drink recipe and gut-health love like cabbage juice and celery juice.
Quick Look
- 🕒 Prep Time: 10 minutes
- 🌡️ Cook Time: No cooking needed
- ⏳ Total Time: 10 minutes
- 🍽️ Serving: 1 tall glass
- ⚡ Calories: 284kcal
- 🌶️ Flavor Profile: Crisp green apple and cucumber with bright citrus and a bite of ginger
- ✋ Difficulty: Easy - blend and strain, or one pass through the juicer
Quick Answer
Green machine juice blends chard, romaine lettuce, kale, cucumber, celery, apple, lemon, lime, fresh ginger and coconut water. Add everything to a blender, blend until smooth, then strain through a nut bag or mesh bag and serve over ice - or run it all through a juicer and skip the straining.
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I have been loving all the fresh juices at our local juicer and this homemade Green Machine Juice recipe is another favorite beverage. Detox drinks like this, my apple cider vinegar drink, and these detox water recipes are beneficial drinks to cleanse the body, promote vibrant skin, increase hydration and energy, and flush away toxins!
Drinking a green juice is the beginning step to a transformation goal. Are you ready to transform your body and energy?! I sure hope so, because this drink is bursting with nutrients to help you thrive in everyday wellness!
Why This Recipe Works
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- Juice absorbs faster than food. Removing the pulp allows the body to absorb the nutrients faster as it is not working on processing or breaking down the fibers, so nutrients quickly go into the bloodstream.
- Coconut water is the blender's helper. It helps everything mix, adds delicious sweetness, and brings potassium that helps regulate the heart rate and hydration.
- Kale fights oxidation stress. It is one of the healthiest leafy greens to consume, packed with antioxidants that help reverse oxidation and can promote a youthful look [source].
- Romaine adds natural liquid. It is crisp in texture and great for juices, full of phytonutrients, vitamins A, C and K and folic acid.
- Celery burns more than it gives. It contains fewer calories than it takes the body to break it down through digestion, which supports the metabolism.
- Morning timing matters. Drink it first thing, 20-30 minutes before eating anything else, to boost the body with the nutrients it needs.
Why You'll Love This Recipe
- Increased hydration and energy with the removal of toxins from the body.
- Helps control hunger thanks to fiber in fruits and vegetables, and helps vanquish cravings (apples are also great to turn into healthy apple muffins!).
- Weight loss support and a flatter belly alongside a healthy diet, plus a healthier immune system and less inflammation.
- Vibrant and radiant skin! The whole greens lineup working for you in one glass.
Key Ingredients
- Chard leaf - low calorie and high in vitamins A, C, K and E with calcium, magnesium, potassium, copper and iron. A leafy green that can aid in reducing hypertension.
- Romaine lettuce - adds crisp natural liquid full of phytonutrients and B vitamins.
- Kale - packed full of antioxidants that reduce oxidation stress on the body.
- Cucumber - one of the easiest green fruits to enjoy (yes, they are actually a fruit!), made of 95% water to hydrate the body.
- Celery - speeds up the metabolism and supports weight loss.
- Apple - extremely rich in antioxidants and fiber, and aids in reducing the risk of chronic illness. Use green apple or your favorite kind.
- Lemon and lime - a powerful antioxidant duo full of citric acid to defend the body against free radicals.
- Fresh ginger - great for digestion, reducing inflammation and easing an upset stomach.
- Coconut water - loads of potassium to regulate heart rate, increase hydration, and reduce blood pressure levels.
Be sure to see the recipe card below for quantities.
Variations
- Turn it into a smoothie - add about 1 cup of ice, blend, and do not strain the pulp.
- Juicer version - skip the coconut water as an option; it is used in the blender to help it mix.
- Cleanse companion - if you are doing a detox juice cleanse, drink a few glasses of this throughout the day as you "fast".
- Swap the greens - rotate with my green detox juice or add parsley like my parsley juice.
How to Make Green Machine Juice
1Add the produce and coconut water (all the ingredients) to a blender. Blend until smooth.
2Use a nut bag or mesh bag to strain out the fibers: place the bag over a bowl, pour the juice in, hold the top and squeeze tightly. This may need to be done a few times.
3Serve over ice. Or, in a juicer: add all the ingredients (coconut water optional) and enjoy chilled. I recommend the Breville juicer, or this Hamilton juicer works well and is more affordable.
Expert Tips
- Drink it first thing in the morning, 20-30 minutes before eating anything else.
- Pair it with your routine - you can even break it up after drinking warm lemon water, or in place of it.
- Top-of-the-line tools help - I love using my Vitamix and this mesh / nut bag for blending and straining.
- Organic produce is best - wash everything well either way.
Serving Ideas
Serve it chilled or over ice as a morning reset, or alongside a wellness shot for a double dose. For gentler sippers in the family, a lemon cucumber mint detox water or fruit infused water rounds out the tray.
Recipe FAQs
First thing in the morning, 20-30 minutes before eating anything else, to boost the body with the nutrients it needs.
Yes! Just add about 1 cup of ice, blend the ingredients in a blender, and do not strain the pulp for a smoothie.
Removing the pulp allows the body to absorb the nutrients faster as it is not working on breaking down the fibers, so nutrients quickly go into the bloodstream.
No - a high powered blender and a nut bag work great. If juicing, you can skip the coconut water, which is mainly there to help the blender mix.
Yes - if you are doing a detox juice cleanse, this green machine juice is wonderful to add by drinking a few glasses throughout the day.
Crisp and refreshing - green apple and cucumber sweetness with bright lemon and lime and a warming bite of fresh ginger.
Green Machine Juice Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 cup coconut water
- 1 cup baby kale leaves packed
- 1 cup romaine lettuce packed
- 1 chard leaf very large
- 1 cucumber or half an extra long English cucumber
- 1 celery stalk
- 1 apple core and seeds removed, cut into chunks
- 1 lemon skin and rind sliced off
- 1 lime skin and rind sliced off
- 1 inch fresh ginger peeled
Instructions
Blender
- Add all the ingredients to a blender. Blend until smooth on high.
- Using a large bowl, place a mesh bag or nut bag over top. Pour in the blended green machine juice. Using your hands, squeeze the juice out making sure to remove all of the liquid. (save and reserve the scraps in the bag to add to baked goods or smoothies.)
- Transfer the juice to a glass and serve over ice or chilled.
Juicer
- If using a juicer, you can can skip the coconut water as an option. It is used in the blender to help it mix and add nutrients and it does add delicious sweetness. Add the remaining ingredients to a juicer and enjoy! Best served chilled or over ice.
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