Carrots are a fantastic way to get Vitamin A and antioxidants such as beta-carotene into your diet. Carrots are also a good source of vitamin K, vitamin C, vitamin E, several of the B vitamins, important minerals and nutrients such as potassium, manganese, phosphorus, folate, and dietary fiber.
Many people enjoy drinking carrot juice by itself, and is without a doubt one of the top sellers of fresh juice sold in supermarkets. However, because of how relatively inexpensive carrots are, and how they compliment so many different popular juicing ingredients, they are also one of the most popular vegetables for home juicer recipes.
Carrots do a great job of adding sweetness to any juice recipe but do a particularly good job of masking stronger tasting green vegetables. For this fact alone, they are a key ingredient in many popular “green juice” type or 100% vegetable based recipes.
Below you will find some basic instructions on preparing carrots for juicing followed by some popular carrot juicing recipes:
Preparing the Carrots
1. Wash the carrots to remove the dirt and cut the green top. ( it is recommended to keep the skin on so you do not lose any of the nutrients located in the skin.)
2. Chop the carrots if necessary depending on your juicer.
Simply Carrot Juice Recipe
It doesn’t get much more simple than this recipe:
– 4 to 5 whole organic carrots
This should make around 10oz or a full glass of tasty carrot juice.
Celery and Carrots Juicing Recipe
This is a great way to mellow out the sweetness of straight carrot juice:
– 3 to 4 whole organic carrots
– 3 to 4 Celery stalks
Carrot – Spinach Juicer Recipe
3 to 4 more carrots
2 cups of spinach
*Tip – add the spinach to your juicer first, then add carrots afterwards to help push out all the spinach juice.
Healthy Carrot Juicer Recipes ( Nutrient Dense)
Below are nutrient dense carrot juicing recipes that mix ingredients you typically wouldn’t want to juice by themselves, but because carrots do such a great job of masking stronger flavors, you can pack a lot of nutrient punch into these recipes and still create an enjoyable healthy drink:
Carrot – Cabbage – Celery – Garlic Juice Recipe
3 medium carrots
¼ head cabbage
3 celery stalks
1 garlic clove
Carrot – Beet – Spinach – Cucumber – Parsley Juicer Recipe
3 medium carrots
½ medium beet
1 cup spinach
½ cucumber
¼ -1/2 cup parsley
Carrot – Lettuce – Garlic – Celery Juicing Recipe
4 medium carrots
¼ head lettuce
1 garlic glove
2 celery stalks
Carrot – Celery – Parsley – Spinach Juice Recipe
3 medium carrots
2 celery stalks
¼ – ½ cup parsley
1 cup spinach
Carrot – Beet – Celery Juicer Recipe
3 medium carrots
½ medium beet
3 celery stalks
Carrot – Red Bell Pepper – Beet – Celery Recipe
4 large carrots
1 red bell pepper
1 medium beet
4 celery stalks
Carrot – Cucumber – Lettuce Recipe
3 medium carrots
1 medium cucumber
½ head of lettuce (not iceburg)