Juice & Smoothie Week Post #3: What? Root vegetable juice? Yes.
This is the weirdest one I’ve tried.
After having my juicer for almost a year now, I’m finally starting to branch out from the very typical all-fruit or fruit-and-greens juices. It does take some working up to, cause some vegetables can be weird juiced. Squash juice? Yeah, it’s going to take a lot longer to like that one.
But I heard tell that you can juice sweet potatoes and have been meaning to give it a try. What better time than Juice & Smoothie Week?!
So I thought . . . what would go well with sweet potato juice? Well, having never tried it before I just didn’t know. So I thought about what I pair sweet potatoes with to eat them. And I skimmed through my juicer manual to see what kinds of foods I thought would go well.
And what kept popping up from both these sources was: more root vegetables!
So here’s the juice form. With a touch of apple and celery juice to sweeten it up.
Shockingly good.
Oh. my. gosh.
serves 2
1 head fennel
1 bunch radishes
2 turnips
1 really big sweet potato (about 2 medium sized ones)
2 apples
3 stalks celery
3 carrots
Juice everything together!
Quick note: I’m never sure when recipes say “sweet potato” if they really mean sweet potatoes or if they mean yams. Life-long issue. I tried juicing both of them, and they’re both delicious. I think the yams have a little more flavor, but but are strangely creamy. Especially sweet potatoes. It’s a fantastic quality to have in a juice, especially one with lots of vegetables. Feel free to use either yams or sweet potatoes here, they’re both great.
Now this isn’t one of those juices that doesn’t really taste healthy. The radishes and turnips are fairly strong flavors. If you’re still working up to the more daring juices like I am, then I would just cut both of those in half.
Such a fun way to get all these veggies in!
Oh yeah, the turnips didn’t make it into the pictures. They had rolled to the back of my counter and I totally forgot about them until I was just about to pour the juice out. Oops. There’s even more veg goodness in this juice than in that loaded bowl!
Nutrition facts per serving (just an estimate – calculating these for juice is weird): Calories: 218.4; Calories from Fat: 8; Total Fat: 0.9g; Sodium: 271mg; Total Carbohydrates: 69.7g; Dietary Fiber: 0g; Sugars: 33.3g; Protein: 5.3g
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