Cucumber Parsley Green Juice
A four-ingredient green juice made in a juicer: cucumber, parsley, lemon, and green apple. Sharp, clean, and ready in 10 minutes. The order matters -- cucumber first to start the flow, parsley pushed through by the lemon, apple to finish.
Servings 1 glass
Calories 75kcal
Cost $4
Equipment
- 1 Juicer (centrifugal or masticating) a blender + strainer works as substitute
- 1 Fine mesh strainer if using blender method
Ingredients
For the Green Juice
- 1 large cucumber washed and cut into chunks
- 1 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley packed; stems included
- 1 lemon peeled and cut into chunks
- 1 green apple cored and cut into chunks
Instructions
Prepare the Ingredients
- Wash the cucumber, parsley, and apple thoroughly. Cut the cucumber into 2-inch chunks. Core the apple. Peel the lemon (the pith makes juice bitter if juiced whole). Leave parsley stems on -- they contain nutrients and juice well.
- Feed ingredients through the juicer in this sequence: cucumber first (it starts the liquid flow), then parsley (the cucumber liquid helps push the dry herbs through), then lemon (it flushes the parsley residue), then apple (it clears the machine and sweetens the batch). Running them in random order results in parsley clogging the machine.
Finish and Serve
- Stir the collected juice. It should be bright green, slightly cloudy, and smell of cucumber and parsley. Taste -- the apple provides natural sweetness, the lemon gives brightness, and the parsley adds a clean herbal note.
- Pour into a tall glass over ice. Drink immediately -- fresh green juice oxidizes quickly and loses its bright green color and some nutrients within 20 minutes. If making in advance, store sealed in the fridge for up to 6 hours.
- Rinse the juicer components immediately after use -- parsley fiber dries hard and becomes difficult to clean if left even 30 minutes.
Notes
Run ingredients in order: cucumber, parsley, lemon, apple. Parsley clogs the machine if juiced without a liquid carrier (the cucumber) going first.
Drink immediately -- green juice oxidizes and loses color and nutrition quickly.
Blender method: blend all ingredients with 1/4 cup water, then strain through a fine mesh strainer or cheesecloth.
