Easy 4-ingredient kale juice recipe that doesn’t taste at all like lawn clippings! Refreshing, hydrating and simply delicious, this green juice is more invigorating than coffee!
Health in a glass my friends, that’s what this apple, carrot celery and kale juice represents.
Now, I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with fresh juices.
The love part comes in when drinking the juice. Ah – now that’s good stuff.
The hate part comes in when I have to clean the juicer.
Geez, can it be any harder? Even the ‘easy-to-clean’ juicers still require quite a bit of work, separating all the parts and then cleaning them all with the little toothbrush cleaner thingie. It’s not my favorite thing to do in the world.
But drinking the juice? Oh – love love love.
So because of this love/hate thing, I prefer to make a nice big juice. If I’m going to have to do all that work for it, I better make it worthwhile.
So this juice is a big juice. It makes about a liter of juice. I’m going to say it serves 2 though, because why not drink a great big juice.
You probably don’t juice everyday (I definitely don’t), so when I do I want to make it count!
Get in all that good stuff, all those vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients in a nice BIG glass of green juice.
What you’ll like about this green juice is that it doesn’t taste like kale. Or you know, lawn clippings.
The carrot and apple flavors are strong enough to overpower that lawn clippings thing and the celery adds a delicious saltiness.
It’s actually so good it’s worth dusting off your juicer (and cleaning it afterwards) to drink this juice.
And really, it feels so good, you actually FEEL as if your cells are jumping up and doing a happy jive as this juice starts hitting your system.
And if you’re generally a kale fan, then you’ll also love our vegan kale salad and our kale chips.
What You’ll Need To Make This Juice:
Ingredient Notes
- Kale – can really be any kind of kale.
- Green apples – we love Granny Smith apples because they are firm and sweet and a tiny bit tart. They work really well in this green juice.
How To Make Kale Juice
You will find full instructions and measurements in the recipe card at the bottom of the post. This is a summary of the process to go along with the process photos.
- Slice your apples, carrots and celery into juicer friendly pieces.
- Feed the ingredients into the juicer starting with kale, then celery, then carrots and finally apple.
- Stir the juice and serve!
Recipe Tips
Best when fresh. It’s ideal to drink your juice right after making it. It will keep for a day or two in the fridge, but in terms of flavor and nutrients, fresh is best.
Leftover pulp. You can throw away the leftover pulp or compost it. But if the thought of wasting it bothers you then there are things you can do with leftover juicing pulp. This article from Vegetarian Times lists 20 things you can do with leftover juicing pulp.
More Green Juices and Smoothies
Did you make this recipe? Be sure to leave a comment and rating below!
Apple Carrot Celery and Kale Juice
Ingredients
- 4 Small Green Apples
- 4 Large Carrots
- 1 Bunch Kale 8-10 Large Leaves
- 4 Large Stalks Celery
Instructions
- Slice the apples, carrots and celery into juicer friendly pieces.
- Feed the ingredients into the juicer starting with kale, then celery, then carrots and then apple.
- Stir the juice and serve!
- Best served fresh.
Notes
- Best when fresh. It’s ideal to drink your juice right after making it. It will keep for a day or two in the fridge, but in terms of flavor and nutrients, fresh is best.
- Nutritional information accounts for the fiber loss in the overall calorie count but not in the individual macronutrients.
I love how the end result gives such a rich green. Your recipe is simple yet so healthy. I’ve done a similar recipe but added a bit of ginger to it too.
Ginger is a great addition! Thank so much for the great review. 🙂
I use more celery and less carrot and apple to decrease the sugar content
Tasty. The apple and carrot makes it sweet enough.
I am not a big fan of the green juices. However, if I see a recipe that catches my eye I will try it. This is a great tasting juice. Very fresh tasting. I’m glad I gave it a try.
Can u make this in a blender?
You could, but those veggies are very fibrous. With the juicer, the juice is being extracted from the fibrous vegetables whereas in the blender it’s all in there, so it’s just going to be very different. Maybe still good, but very different.
Tasty!
Could you include measurements of amounts of each of the actual juices I like to juice each seperatly and get bags of kale. Thank you.
What’s great with juicing is that it is packed with nutrients that the body needs. It is also easy to prepare.
Very easy to make and clean up! No adjustments needed for us!
Great! Thanks for the rating! 🙂
Excellent! Even the “meat and potato guy’ loved it!
Yay! That’s awesome Leslie! 🙂
Is it supposed to have a fuzzy texture?
It could be that your juicer is letting too much pulp through, in which case you can strain it again. It just depends on the juicer and how much pulp it removes, any fuzziness is from too much pulp coming through.
Thank you for sharing Alison, this looks amazing.
You’re welcome! 🙂
Well worth the cleaning up required. I like that it’s a big serving, too.
Making it count YO! 🙂 Love it 🙂
Great and tasty way to detox