Juicer's Dilemma: Help Me Find a Tasty Savory Juice!

What do you do when you get a new juicer? Well you juice everything in your kitchen that will hold still, that's what. After mastering the art of making tasty fruit juices loaded with nutritious kale and spinach, I found myself at a roadblock this morning — how to make a savory juice that doesn't taste like salsa water. Do you have any ideas?

After acquiring a new juicer, I've come to love the convenience of replacing a meal or two a day with a good juice. There are thousands of recipes floating around on the internet, but not many are reviewed or warn you ahead of time if what you're about to consume is actually tasty.

Finding a savory juice (can you juice a steak?) that isn't loaded with fruit has proved to be tricky. Fruit juice isn't a bad thing, but I'd like to make something that isn't so dessert-like in nature. So far, most of the savory juices I've tried taste like salsa and although not bad, well, they taste like salsa.

Do you have a favorite savory juice? A few favorite ingredients? Share your stories and recipes with me in the comments below and I'll test out the best and share my results!

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Comments (18)

Add ginger, for starters?

seconded on ginger. also, adding a green apple (or part of one) to almost any vegetable-mix juice tends to add just enough sweetness and acid to tie together/brighten all the other flavors. celery juice is delicious, and makes an excellent base for any other flavors. also, herbs help, especially basil.

Think about cold soups and make juices based on those. Gazpacho juice or borscht juice would be good starts. Also, what about something mild like celery or cucumber with lots of herbs?

How about adding some spices like a curry powder, black pepper, ras al-hanout, etc?

Carrot Tomato Ginger Beet Greens Juice!

http://www.shutterbean.com/celery-carrot-tomato-ginger-beet-green-juice/

If a juice is on the bitter side, I usually add an apple or a carrot to sweeten the deal. A juice like this one is great with a little hot sauce added in. It's like drinking a bloody mary without the booze.

Also! Add herbs. Cilantro & Parsley are really great in juices. Lemon can balance a juice if it's too sweet.

AND!!! FENNEL. Fennel is pretty awesome.

kale, spinach, cucumber, celery, green apples, ginger or another good one: fennel and pears

try adding ginger, lemon juice, mint, parsley

Ginger, Lemon, Apple, Pear - all these add a nice touch of flavor to balance out the "garden" tsate of juiced veggies. Sometime I turn green juices into smoothies to - bringing in the blender & adding banana or avacado etc.

Isn't having a juicer great? I finally bought mine last year after wanting one for ages and love it.

I don't know if you would consider this savory or not, but my favorite juice is simple and really refreshing: carrots, apples (about 50/50 but you could use more carrots), plenty of Swiss chard (stems and leaves), and a hunk of fresh ginger. It's actually pretty sweet, but it does have two veggies and doesn't taste anything like salsa water. :)

Apple + carrots + beet + lemon + ginger = yum!
(approx. 2 large apples, 3 big carrots, 1 large beet, 1 lemon, 1" of ginger) Serve over ice or at least very cold.

head of broccoli, 1 cucumber, 2 large handfuls of spinach, 4 stalks of asparagus and a green apple

best juice ever. i drink for breakfast every morning and you feel so healthy!

A smidge of coconut oil in mixes can also balance out too much bitter/salty

daily - kale, spinach, cucumber, celery, green apples, ginger.

I love carrots, green apple and ginger combo.

I highly recommend getting "The Juicing Bible" so much great information and endless recipes.

But for free-
Check out this site there are a tons of great veggie/fruit combos and I love their simple salads dressings and soup recipes too, its from the documentary -Fat Sick and Nearly Dead which you can stream on Netflix right now.
http://jointhereboot.com/reboot-program/recipes/

Same website has a very informative list of the nutritional benefits veggie/herbs and fruits-
http://jointhereboot.com/reboot-program/nutritional-benefits/

I love juicing so much I just bought a travel juicer today for 30.00 so I don't have to lug around my Brevile.

I often make a green juice that is mostly veg: kale or spinach, celery, ginger, parsley, green apple, mint, and lemon. The ginger and mint make a wonderful, bright juice.

B77 what travel juicer did you buy and is it strong enough to make your daily juice - as that is what I drink as well.

Ive become pretty fond of my banana smoothy. I juice some lettuce, spinach, cucumber and celery & then blend that juice with a banana and some hemp powder. yummy stuff! Highly recommended.

My favorite morning juice containes a couple bunches of kale, a stalk or two of celery, and a couple of inches of fennel root. After juicing, add the juice of half a lemon and a dash or two of cayenne pepper.

I'd also love to hear about the travel juicer!

Pineapple, pear and apple or carrots, celery and apple are the favorites in my house

Buy the Juicing Bible by Pat Crocker, it's loaded with great recipes and descriptions of the health benefits for each. This is important because with juicing there can be too much of a good thing (ie. too much kale reduces thyroid function).

My personal favorite is carrot, celery and green apple.