Veggie Shots

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Veggie shots Ingredients:

I want to share with you a lovely recipe for veggie shots that I wrote about 15 years ago.

The Lord put in my mind this veggie shots recipe for juicing to improve my health when my health was a mess.

This recipe was the beginning of our healing journey and this was the inspiration I got from the Lord. Through His grace He guided us to juice our deep colored foods and drinking it everyday.

I never intended for this juicing thing to become a business but the Lord saw fit to make it one for a time.

And so veggies shots was created.

A little over a year or year and a half ago my best friend back in Georgia, Celeste, introduced me to the joys of juicing raw Turmeric.

Turmeric is the most anti-inflammatory thing you can put in your body and I am living proof that this works.

There are several things you’ll need to make this recipe. You’ll need a juicer, and I can recommend a really good one called the green star juicer.

Most juicers will work, but I highly recommend the Green Star as it is a super high quality juicer.

Start by prepping your carrots.

You’re going to want to trim the tips and other bits off as you would prep for a soup.

Save the trimmings and if you haven’t seen my video on what to do with these scraps you can watch the video on my bone broth recipe here.

Once you’ve trimmed the veggies you’ll want to cut them to size to fit into your juicer. The Green Star cannot handle too big of pieces so I cut them to fit.

The idea of juicing like this is to prep and juice however much juice you’d like to consume in a month or so. You can make as much or as little as you like depending on how often you’d like to juice.

We juice once a month and store the excess in the freezer and thaw what we need as we need it.

I recommend shopping for your veggie shots ingredients all one the same day. You want the freshest stuff you can find.

You’ll also want to have organic when you can or even home grown if possible.

We’ll show you at the end how to bottle and freeze your juice.

For the beets, you’ll want about 3 bundles. Each bundle will have about 3 good size beets and a few smaller ones.

Separate the greens from the beets and wash the greens. The goal is to get the sand off. Beet greens are more nutritious than the beets themselves.

And by juicing the greens, you can get them into those who struggle to eat their greens.

Wash the beets gently, 3 times. Each time you’ll get some dirt off so just make sure you’re not getting any more dirt off on the final wash. I recommend using a vegetable scrub brush to get the sand off.

Any of the scraps and leftovers from juicing will be fermented and fed to the chickens.

Once your beets are sand free, chop them into pieces that will fit well into your juicer.

Don’t peel your beets. The skin holds many vital nutrients that you want in your juice.

Most juicers will tell you about how long your juice will be fresh after it’s juiced. My Greenstar instructions say the juice is good for 72 hours. Some juicers say it’s good for 6-8.

Know what your juicer recommends and follow the instructions.

Next on the list is lemons. Lemons not only increase the freshness of the juice, but also add a level from preservation to the juice.

As long as you use or freeze your juice within the time limit you will preserve your juice.

Just remember that when you thaw the juice you’ll still be subject to this time limit.

I really recommend the Greenstar juicer. I’ve had mine for 16 years and it’s still going strong.

And now we’re on to the turmeric.

You’ll want to cut this into pieces that will fit into your juicer.

There isn’t much more prep for the turmeric than that for veggie shots.

When buying turmeric, you want the firm, heavy pieces. This turmeric came in an 8 oz. box. If you weigh it and it weighs 8 oz. or a little less it’s old. You want to pull from the back like you do with produce.

Get that freshest turmeric for your veggie shots. It’ll have the best nutrients and flavors.

A quick rinse is all that’s needed to cleanse your turmeric. It’s usually really clean when you buy it from the store.

Turmeric can be hard to find so if you find a good spot to buy good turmeric keep buying it from there.

Up next we have ginger.

Ginger is paired with turmeric often as it’s a warming spice. It’ll help your body absorb the most out of the turmeric.

You will want to be very careful when adding your ginger. Sometimes ginger can have a mild flavor and sometimes it can be flaming hot. Unfortunately, there’s no way to tell when buying ginger which kind you’ll get.

I’ve made this juice before and forgot to pay attention when I put the ginger in and it made the whole juice pretty spicy. It wasn’t ruined but I did have to cut it with a little water to make it more palatable.

But ginger is really good for you just like the turmeric. It also adds flavor, just like the lemons and beets. Everything is in here for a reason.

If you don’t have a juicer yet I can’t recommend this Greenstar highly enough.

I love this juicer! If you buy this juicer you’ll never have to buy another one for the rest of your life.

The Greenstar juicer says you can keep the juice refrigerated for up to 72 hours but I kid you not, I’ve kept it in a coupe extra days by adding the lemon juice.

Now we’re going to move on to our apples and cucumbers. Like I’ve said before you want to wash these and then cut them to fit your juicer.

Make sure to remove the stem on the apple. You don’t want that in your juice.

If you want a juice with lower carbs you can increase your cucumbers and celery and decrease your beets, carrots, and apples.

It is important to continue to eat your fruits and veggies even if you have some health issues.

For the greens, just make sure everything is well washed. Once you have everything washed and diced to juicer appropriate sizes, we can begin juicing.

From this point on we are going to be focused on the juicer. We should be getting a lovely color out of the juice drip.

The pulp will come out of the waste port and we can save that and use it to make fermented chicken feed. It’s really good for the chickens too!

As your juicing, keep in mind that you’ll want to follow the greens with something hard like a root vegetable.

You’re going to want to rotate through all your different veggies as you’re juicing. It’ll help keep the juicer operating at a good pace.

I forgot to mention earlier that we are going to add dandelion greens into this recipe too.

Arugula is very thyroid friendly and I make sure you put in into everyone of my juices.

Drinking this juice every day will do wonderful things to your vitality!

You can add as much turmeric as you want to this veggie shots recipe and it will not change the flavor of the juice. This juice is very smooth.

Some of these ingredients produce less juice than others. Carrots and greens, for example, don’t produce as much juice as an apple. But the juice from the apple will compensate for the low producing ingredients.

And you don’t want to discount the low producing veggies because they still contain an exorbitant amount of health despite being lower in the juice production.

On a side note, don’t over fill your hopper while you’re juicing.

If you push too much produce into the hopper it can get can backed up and then you have to take the whole thing apart and clean it and get it back to being happy again, which takes a bit of time.

One more thing to add to that, you’ll want to do your celery last for this exact reason. Because of all the strands in the celery it tends to gum up the juicer as you juice it. By doing it last, you’ll only have to tear down your juicer for cleaning once.

Some of the benefits of carrots are that they are good for your eyesight. Cucumbers, parsley, and celery are great for your blood pressure and cardiovascular health.

Parsley is a natural diuretic, which means it gets rid of fluid in your body that you shouldn’t have.

One of my favorite quotes from Charlotte Gerson is that you cannot heal selectively if you give your body the proper fuel.

Life begets life; when you consume a live food your body is going to become more alive.

You’ll gain strength and vitality from veggie shots.

Oh my, now we’re on to lemons. Do not peel lemons! The pulp will be removed from the juicer and there are so many good nutrients in the peel.

Make sure you have organic ingredients as much as you can. If you aren’t able to get organic, you may want to consider peeling to avoid the chemicals in the fertilizers and pesticides.

The oils in the lemon peel will help preserve your juice and make it last longer.

Because creating this juice is such a production, we’ll only be doing this once a month or so. You can make it according to your schedule and consumption rates, but for us once a month is about right.

We buy the freezer safe mason jars and fill them up and freeze them.

My batch here will probably produce about 3 gallons of veggie shots.

One ounce is the equivalent to about 2.5 cups of nutrient dense veggies.

I recommend to all my clients that they drink about 4 oz. a day. At 4 oz. you’re consuming about 10 cups of nutrition.

I also recommend that you drink this on an empty stomach and sip it slowly. It should take about 5 minutes to drink it. Once you’ve finished the juice you shouldn’t eat anything for about 15 minutes afterwards because you want this to absorb into your system without triggering digestion.

Personally, I drink about 8 oz. a day.

But I’m in my mid 50’s and raising my second crop of kids. My youngest is 5, so I need the energy so I drink 8 oz. My husband drinks 8 oz a day too, and my 12 year old drinks 3 oz. and the 5 year old doesn’t like it.

As you get to the end of your ingredients you’re going to want to filter the juice. You should run the juice through a fine sieve because there will still be some foam and the foam is bitter. There might also be some pulp so you want to get that out.

So as you’re combining the different juices you can just pour them through the sieve and catch all the impurities that made it through the juicer.

When you’re ready to pour the juice into the freezer jars you want to make sure not to over fill them, because they will crack if they are over filled.

We’ve gone through a lot of jars testing them in the freezer and we’ve finally figured out a way to keep the jars from cracking.

Take a freezer bag and put it over the top of the jar and push it into the jar to get the air out. Then put your ring on over the bag. As the juice freezes and expands, the bag allows the jar the room to expand without cracking.

Once the juice is frozen you can replace the bag with a traditional lid to keep the juice until you’re ready to use it.

When you’re ready to take a jar out of the freezer, you can thaw it in the fridge and then pour out your veggie shots into a measuring cup as needed.