Celery is an aromatic, spicy herb widely used in dietary and health-improving nutrition. The most effective way to consume celery is considered to be the use of its freshly squeezed juice as the basis of healthy vitamin drinks.
Celery juice drinks not only saturate the body with vitamins and minerals, but also promote weight loss, strengthen the immune system, relieve tension and lower stress hormone levels. Numerous recipes for celery drinks allow you to combine it with dairy products, fruit and vegetable juices for original and healthy cocktails.
Vitamin drink
For the preparation of a vitamin cocktail, both root and stalk celery can be used. Well washed and slightly dried celery is thoroughly chopped using a juicer or blender, squeezed through cheesecloth - the resulting juice will serve as the basis for a drink used for vitamin deficiency.
To prepare a vitamin drink, you need to add carrot juice, parsley root juice and sweet and sour apples to a quarter of a cup of freshly squeezed celery juice. All ingredients are thoroughly mixed, it is advisable to take the drink in the morning and evening, half a cup at a time.
If instead of juice of parsley and apples, you take freshly squeezed cucumber juice in the amount of 100 ml, mix all the ingredients and add a couple of ice cubes, you will get not only a healthy, but also a refreshing drink that makes it easier to endure the summer heat and heat.
Slimming drink
A drink made from celery and low-fat yogurt will help provide the body with a feeling of fullness without overeating, energize it and enrich it with a complex of vitamins and minerals. For its preparation, a bunch of stalked celery is crushed with a blender, a glass of natural yogurt is added to the resulting gruel and mixed thoroughly. Juice is squeezed out of a small lemon or lime, mixed with half a glass of cool boiled water and added to the celery-yogurt mixture. If you wish, you can use the whole lemon - in this case, grind it with a blender along with the celery. All ingredients are mixed until a homogeneous mixture is obtained, the edge of the glass is decorated with a slice of lime.
Tonic drink
The recipe for a celery tonic drink will come in handy in hot weather: the cocktail will provide the body's water and electrolyte balance, quench thirst and hunger, and give vigor and energy.
Root celery, weighing about 500 g, is washed, peeled, cut into small slices and minced using kitchen equipment to obtain juice. 250-300 g of sweet apples are cut into quarters, peeled and sprinkled with lemon to prevent browning, after which the juice is squeezed out and mixed with celery. To the resulting mixture add 100 ml of tomato juice, half a teaspoon of sugar and a pinch of salt. All layers of drinks are stirred, served chilled.
