Delicious pumpkin juice at home

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 17:37

• Category:

  Beverages

• Cooking time:

  1 hour

Ingredients

• pumpkin
• sugar
• water
• lemon acid

Pumpkin juice is a vitamin drink that is especially useful to drink in winter. It not only enhances the immune system, but also actively helps to fight chronic diseases. At the same time, the juice turns out to be very tasty, especially if you add other vegetables or fruits to it. And now we will tell you how to make pumpkin juice at home for the winter.

Pumpkin juice for the winter

At home, you can get pumpkin juice according to the simplest recipe without other additives. The drink turns out to be tasty, healthy, because there are no flavors here. Citric acid acts as a preservative, which can be replaced with natural citrus juice.

Ingredients:

• 3 kg pumpkin;
• 500 g sugar;
• 2 liters of water;
• 2 tsp citric acid.

Preparation:

Peel and seed the pumpkin, cut into small pieces. To make the peel easier to remove, the pumpkin can be put in the oven for 5 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C

• Now pour the vegetable pieces into a saucepan, fill them with water, put them on the fire and, after the start of active boiling, simmer for 10 minutes.
• If the pumpkin has become soft, then put it on a sieve and pass it through a juicer, you can use a blender, chopping the vegetable to puree, and then pass it through a fine mesh sieve.

• Pour sugar and citric acid into the resulting juice, stir. If the consistency of the drink is too thick for you, then add water.
• We return the drink to the fire and cook until foam no longer appears on the surface of the juice.

Pour the finished pumpkin juice into sterilized jars and roll up the lids. Store the drink in a cool, dark place

For juicing, do not choose too large pumpkin fruits, the best choice would be a vegetable weighing no more than 5 kg. Large fruits inside are dry or, conversely, they have a lot of water, so the drink will turn out with a bitter aftertaste.

Recipe with orange and lemon

Homemade pumpkin juice recipe with citrus will be especially appreciated by all fans of the combination of flavors of vegetables and fruits. The pumpkin is stored for a long time, citruses are sold all year round, so a healthy and tasty drink can be made at any time and for this it is not at all necessary to roll it into jars for the winter.

Ingredients:

• 5 kg pumpkin;
• 2 oranges;
• 2 lemons;
• 2 tsp citric acid;
• 3 cups of sugar.

Preparation:

Cut the pumpkin peeled from the peel and seeds into pieces, transfer to a saucepan, pour water into them and put on fire

We simmer the vegetable until it becomes soft, and then, using any grinder, we turn the pieces into a vegetable puree mass

Pour oranges and lemons with boiling water to remove excess bitterness from citruses. After the fruit is dried, peel off the peel and twist it in a meat grinder

Now put the zest and twisted pulp of fruit in the pumpkin puree, and also add sugar and citrus acid, put on medium heat

As soon as all the sweet crystals are completely dissolved, pour in water in a 3: 1 ratio

Bring the juice to a boil and pour it into sterilized jars, roll it up and cool it before putting the drink into storage

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If you buy a pumpkin from the market, then you should not take a chopped vegetable. Perhaps the pumpkin has already begun to rot and the seller simply cut off the spoiled part. Also, when choosing a pumpkin, it is important to pay attention to its skin, it should be dense, but not hardened.

Pumpkin juice with apples

Pumpkin goes well with various fruits, so juice can be made at home not only from one vegetable. So, there is a simple but delicious recipe for a drink for the winter with the addition of apples.

Ingredients:

• 2 kg pumpkin;
• 1 kg of apples;
• 250 ml of water;
• half a lemon;
• 0.5 cups of sugar.

Preparation:

We send the pumpkin, already peeled and cut into small pieces, into the pan along with the apples, which we also clean from the peel and seeds

Pour water into the fruit with pumpkin, put on fire and cook until soft, about 10 minutes

We pass the softened pieces of vegetables and apples through a juicer, separate the juice from the pulp

If there is no such kitchen appliance, then grind the ingredients with a blender and pass the resulting puree through a sieve if you want to get pure juice without pulp

We put the juice on the fire again, but with the addition of sugar, freshly squeezed lemon juice and water. We boil the drink for 2-3 minutes and fill clean sterile jars

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If you often prepare juice for the winter at home, then experienced chefs advise you to purchase a juicer, which retains most of the nutrients in the ingredients used for drinks.

Pumpkin and carrot juice

Despite the fact that the drink is prepared only from some vegetables without adding fruit sweets, the juice is very tasty. The main thing is to choose sweet varieties of carrots, which will give the drink a pleasant taste.

Ingredients:

• 1, 2 kg pumpkin;
• 800 g carrots;
• 100 g of sugar.

Preparation:

We clean the carrots and cut them into small pieces, so the vegetable will give more juice

We peel off the peel from the pumpkin, remove all the bones that should not be thrown away, because they are as useful as the vegetable itself. We also cut the pulp into cubes

Now you need to get juice from vegetables, this is the easiest way to use a juicer. We do not throw away the remaining cake, but fill it with water and put it on fire. After boiling, filter the broth and add carrot, pumpkin and lemon juice to it

We also add sugar and put the drink on the fire, heat the juice, but do not boil it. As soon as the first bubbles appear on the surface, immediately remove from the heat and pour it into jars

We roll up the jars of the drink, cool and store them

If there is no juicer in the house, then you can use a simple meat grinder through which we twist the vegetables, and the resulting gruel is already filtered through cheesecloth and we get juice.

Pumpkin Ginger Juice

The combination of pumpkin and ginger may seem strange to many, but they make a very tasty and invigorating juice. So even for the sake of curiosity, such a recipe is worth taking note of.

Ingredients:

• 700 g pumpkin;
• 1 apple;
• half a lemon;
• 50 g ginger.

Preparation:

Remove the peel from the pumpkin, remove the seeds and cut the pulp into pieces

Cut the apples into slices and cut out the core with seeds

Peel half of the lemon and disassemble it into slices, peel the ginger root

Now we pass all the ingredients through a juicer

We taste the resulting juice, if there is not enough sweetness, then add sugar to taste

The drink can be served immediately or boiled on the stove for a couple of minutes and rolled up in jars

If the pumpkin juice has fermented, then you should not pour it out right away, but it is better to boil it and use it to make jelly, fruit drink and even homemade wine.

These simple recipes will allow you to get tasty and healthy pumpkin juice at home for the winter. If desired, the drink can also be made with the addition of dried apricots and sea buckthorn. Canned juice can be stored until summer, but if possible, it is better to use freshly squeezed juice, because it contains the largest amount of trace elements and nutrients.