Green Juice Recipe with Lemon & Ginger

If you’re new to making vegetable juice at home, then you’re going to love this tangy and slightly sweet Lemon and Ginger Green Juice recipe. It uses simple ingredients that are affordable and easy to find.

I’ll show you how to make this green juice recipe in either a juicer or a blender.

Cucumber is a perfect vegetable to use in green juice. It’s full of water and it also includes nutrition (I like to use English cucumbers). You can peel the cucumber or leave the peel on (some people find that the peel adds a bitter taste to the juice). See my related Cucumber Juice Recipe.

Celery is another great veggie for making green juice. It has natural sodium and adds a lot of nice flavor. See my recipe for just Celery Juice.

Lemon adds brightness and lots of vitamin C to homemade vegetable juice. Peel the lemon to prevent the juice from becoming bitter.

Fresh ginger adds tang and helps with digestion. Peel your ginger with the back of a spoon or a knife before juicing it.

Green apple adds sweetness without adding too much sugar. I like using a Granny Smith apple in this healthy green juice recipe.

Parsley adds even more nutrition to this green juice recipe. Parsley has a mild flavor but is so nutritious.

You can adapt the ingredients to whatever you have in your fridge or to your own preferences, but I really love this combination!

See my full list of the best vegetables to juice.

Step One

Wash and prep your veggies and fruit. Remove the peel from the lemon.

To make this green juice in a blender, simply combine the ingredients in the pitcher of a high-speed blender, along with 1/4 cup of water. You can also use a food processor if you like.

See the recipe card at the end of this post for the exact measurements.

Step Two

If you are using a juicer to make this green juice, simply feed the produce through the juicing tube of a juicer. 

If using a high speed blender, blend the ingredients until smooth.

Step Three

If you used a blender, then you’ll need to strain the juice through a nut milk bag or a fine-mesh sieve to get rid of the pulp (or save it and make green juice crackers).

Or, you can serve the blended veggies as green smoothies (just pour and serve). But, for fresh juice, the mixture will need to be strained.

Step Four

Serve your green juice immediately.

This Lemon and Ginger Green Juice recipe with green vegetables is my favorite right now. I hope you love it too!

I’ve been making green juices for almost a decade now, and enjoying the addition of vitamins and antioxidants for my health. Some people have asked me why juicing is a good idea when you could just eat all of those vegetables?

My answer is that there’s no way most people can comfortably digest the same amount of vegetables by chewing them as they can by juicing them. Most people just can’t handle that much fiber without their digestive system getting upset.

By juicing, you get all of the antioxidants, but hardly any of the fiber. Don’t get me wrong, I still eat plenty of vegetables and think that you should too, but I believe that green juices can enhance our intake of antioxidants from green veggies. 

The science supports this theory as well! This study showed a positive effect on cardiovascular health in people who consumed fruit and vegetables juices. Scientists believe this is because of the antioxidants in the juices from fresh fruit and veggies.