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Sweet Corn and Blueberry Juice

By Carmen Dongo

Published on November 21, 2022

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Serves 2

Sweet Corn and Blueberry Juice

Ingredients

¾ cup (1 ear) fresh corn kernels1 cup blueberries 5 ounces Swiss chard

Before You Begin

To process leafy greens, pack them into a tight bundle and fill the feed tube before juicing. You can roll leaves up like a cigar, layering small leaves inside bigger ones. This is especially important for centrifugal juicers.

Instructions

  1. On low speed, process corn and blueberries through juicer into storage container or serving glass. Increase speed to high and process chard. Stir to combine before serving.
Sweet Corn and Blueberry Juice
Photography by Kevin White. Styling by Kendra Elizabeth Smith.

Sweet Corn and Blueberry Juice

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Yield

Serves 2

Ingredients

¾ cup (1 ear) fresh corn kernels
1 cup blueberries
5 ounces Swiss chard

Test Kitchen Techniques

Ingredients

¾ cup (1 ear) fresh corn kernels
1 cup blueberries
5 ounces Swiss chard

Test Kitchen Techniques

Ingredients

¾ cup (1 ear) fresh corn kernels
1 cup blueberries
5 ounces Swiss chard

Test Kitchen Techniques

Why This Recipe Works

Corn juice (a term you may not have heard before) is amazingly sweet and surprisingly starchy, so it provided a thickening quality that gave this juice combo an almost smoothie-like texture. To make the flavor profile more complex while adding welcome tartness, antioxidant- rich blueberries did just the trick and also turned our juice a beautiful purply shade. We loved this pairing but found it still a little too sweet, so we knew we had to add an ingredient that would offset the concentrated flavor without detracting from it. The slight bitter ness of dark, leafy Swiss chard melted into the background and gave the drink a hint of vegetal flavor that made the juice more appealing.

Before You Begin

To process leafy greens, pack them into a tight bundle and fill the feed tube before juicing. You can roll leaves up like a cigar, layering small leaves inside bigger ones. This is especially important for centrifugal juicers.

Instructions

  1. On low speed, process corn and blueberries through juicer into storage container or serving glass. Increase speed to high and process chard. Stir to combine before serving.

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