When making juice, nothing beats your trusty juicer. If for any reason your juicer is out of commission, however, your blender is actually a very good replacement. In fact, a good blender can juice almost as well as that juicer you love so much. Not sure how to use a blender to juice? Not to worry! This article contains all you need to know to get started.
Let’s get right into it!
What You’ll Need
- Ingredients
- Knife
- Chopping board
- Gloves
- Water
- Milk bag
- Bowl
- Blender
How to Use a Blender to Juice
Step 1: Prepare your ingredients
Firstly, you need to get your ingredients. Gather your ingredients and wash your fruits and vegetables thoroughly, depending on the kind of juice you want to make. Would you be using water, a splash of tea, coconut water, or aloe vera juice? You should also get those ready as well.
Step 2: Prepare your mix
Next, you’ll want to prepare your fruit mix. Slice up your fruits or vegetables into tiny bits. Doing so makes the blending process easier on your blender and helps you achieve smoother results.
If you’re making juice with fruits that tend to leave stains like grapes, berries, or carrots, you’ll need to put on your gloves to avoid staining your skin. You should also wear an apron to prevent getting your clothes stained.
Step 3: Put in your ingredients one at a time
Now. it’s time to get your ingredients into your blender. Start with pouring in about half a cup or a full cup of your water, aloe vera juice, coconut water, or any other liquid of your choice into your blender. Then, it’s time for the fruit mix to go in.
If you have many different fruits or vegetables you want to juice, you might want to add each one into the blender separately, blend them, and then mix them all together then blend again. This helps keep your blender safe and prevents it from jamming.
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When placing your ingredients into the blender, make sure not to stuff the blender as this would make blending difficult and might jam the blades. This might end up damaging your blender. Instead of placing all the ingredients in at once, you could simply blend in stages.
Step 4: Blend your mix
Once you have put in all your ingredients, now you can turn up your blender at high speeds. It takes less than a minute to blend your mix into a smooth mix with a thick consistency. However, the blend can get better.
Step 5: Pour your juice
Once you’ve gotten your thick mix, grab your bowl and your milk bag. Place the milk bag into the bowl and pour the mix into the milk bag. If you’re working with ingredients that stain, you’ll want to have on your glove and apron.
Once you’ve got it all into the milk bag, gently massage the bag to get all of the juice out into the bowl. Keep massaging until all that is left within the milk bag is pulp. Even without a juicer, you can still get great juice using this method.
If you’re thinking of what to do with the pulp, you could use it to make cookies or add it to your salad. In the end, nothing needs to be wasted.
Step 6: Enjoy!
If you followed all the steps above, well then congratulations, you have yourself a great juice made with a blender. Go ahead and pour it into a glass and enjoy your drink.
If you want to store it, you can add some lemon juice to the mix and store it in a jar. However, I wouldn’t advise storing it longer than a day in your refrigerator. Juice is best taken fresh as you would be getting all the nutrients out of it.
Juice Recipes
Here are some great juice recipes you can mix especially if you are a beginner;
Green Smoothy Recipe;
This is a delicious smoothie especially if you like salads. Here are some of the ingredients you would need;
Ingredients:
- Frozen mango
- Cucumber
- Celery
- Green apple
- Lemon juice
- Romaine lettuce
- Cold coconut water or filtered water
Watermelon Mint Juice
This is a very simple juice to prepare especially if you are a beginner. All you need are two ingredients.
Ingredients:
- A handful of fresh mint leaves
- About six cups of sliced watermelon
Healthy Shamrock Vegan Shermock Shake
This is a sweet, minty chocolate chip smoothie that would keep you feeling energized and refreshed. It’s quite easy to make, though you’ll need to gather all the ingredients.
Ingredients:
- Ice
- Peppermint extract
- Non-diary milk
- Avocados
- Medjools dates or cacao nibs
- Spinach (optional)
Chocolate Green Smoothie
This is another chocolate smoothie filled with plant-based richness. If you have never tried a green smoothie before, then I recommend starting with this chocolate green smoothie.
Ingredients:
- One tablespoon of cacao powder
- 2 handfuls of spinach
- 2 frozen bananas
- 2 pitted Medjool dates
- Half cup liquid of water or non-dairy milk
Fig and Tahini Smoothie
This is another great smoothie you should try out. If you are not familiar with tahini, it is simply ground sesame seed and is a great ingredient and a major one for this smoothie. Get some fresh figs and tahini, and along with the following ingredients, you’ll have yourself a great smoothie;
Ingredients:
- Tahini
- Fresh figs
- Frozen bananas
- Non-diary milk
- Cinnamon
Conclusion
Even if you don’t have a juicer, you can still make great juice mix with a blender. All you have to do is follow the six steps mentioned above. Having a good blender would ensure you get the very best results. The Magic Bullet is a great choice here. Compact, portable, and easy to use, this blender is a great choice for making juice, shakes, soups, smoothies, and so on for personal use. For more commercial use, the Nutribullet Pro is a better choice.