Gwyneth Paltrow's breakfast juice recipes

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'As energising as a cup of coffee': four delicious juice and smoothie recipes from the actor and foodie's book It's All Good

Recipes: Gwyneth Paltrow Introduction: Rebecca Harrington

Sat 7 Sep 2013 04.00 EDT

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Earlier this year, Idecided to eat like Gwyneth Paltrow for 10days and wrote anarticle about it for NewYork magazine. Ido this sort of thing relatively frequently in my line of work.

To be honest, the diets of celebrities are not usually the veritable party you would imagine. They have all required a strength of soul that I don't have. I went on Greta Garbo's diet and she ate so many beans. I almost died on Jackie Kennedy's diet of one baked potato a day. Every time I write about a diet, I realise how hard it is to live as a celebrity woman. Iimmediately eat a million toasted cheese sandwiches when I am done and thank God I am not one.

So I was expecting to experience much suffering for Gwyneth's sake. Already people had made fun of her famously restrictive diet, which eliminates tomatoes, meat, eggs, dairy gluten and deep-water fish. Ifigured I would do it and feel Ihadaccomplished all that could be accomplished in the dieting world. Iwould officially be the Shackleton of nutrition.

But I actually loved eating like Gwyneth. I still use her cookbook, alittle of which is reproduced below. I loved roasting an entire fish in a vat of salt. Iwholly enjoyed eating daikon for the first time. Gwyneth's juices, especially, were amazing. Even now, sometimes, I drink kale juice just for fun. A little self-denial can be pretty tasty. Enjoy.

The best green juice

Just about as energising as a cup of coffee with none of the letdown, green juice is an incredibly healthy, invigorating way to start your day. Kale is full of calcium and antioxidants and just about everything else. When juiced with a bit of lemon, apple and ginger and a tiny hit of refreshing mint, it turns into a sort of grassy lemonade. No worries if you don't have a juicer: a blender and a strainer do the trick. Serves one.

5 large leaves of kale, ribs discarded, leaves roughly chopped
1 lemon, zest and pith removed
1 large apple, roughly chopped
A 2.5cm piece of fresh ginger
1 sprig of fresh mint

Almond and kale smoothie

This might sound like a bummer, but it's incredibly delicious and absolutely packed with nutrition. Serves one generously.

75g chopped kale (discard the thick rib in the centre of the leaf)
240ml unsweetened almond milk
1 tbsp almond butter
1 tbsp soaked raw almonds
1 date, pitted
1 tbsp coconut oil

Blend everything in a powerful blender until completely smooth and drink immediately.

Red smoothie

I soak the goji berries overnight until they become plump, and add them to other berries and yoghurt: a winning combination of superfoods. Serves one generously.

1 generous tbsp goji berries, soaked in water overnight and drained
30-40g fresh raspberries
3 large strawberries, stems discarded
1 tbsp manuka honey
3 tbsp goat's milk yoghurt
1 tbsp coconut oil
240ml unsweetened almond milk

Blend everything together in a powerful blender until completely smooth and drink.

Cucumber, basil and lime juice

This is especially refreshing when you blend it with an additional handful of ice cubes (use a whole lime if you do, as the acid is mutedwhen the juice is cold). Thinkof it as a detox-friendly mojito. Serves one.

1 handful of basil leaves
1 cucumber, cut in half lengthwise
½ lime, zest and pith removed
1 apple, cut into wedges

Starting with the basil, juice everything into a glass. Alternatively, you can chop all the ingredients and pop them into a powerful blender with 120ml of water, then pass the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer into a glass. Give it a stir and drink immediately.

• Extracted from It's All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes that Will Make You Look Good And Feel Great by Gwyneth Paltrow, published by Sphere at £20. To order a copy for £16, including free UK mainland p&p, go to theguardian.com/bookshoptheguardian.com/bookshop.

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