How to make pumpkin juice
Products
Pumpkin - 600 grams
Sugar - 100 grams
Lemon - 1 piece
Water - 700 milliliters
How to make pumpkin juice
1. Wash the pumpkin, peel, remove the seeds, grate the pumpkin.
2. Squeeze the lemon into a bowl.
3. Pour water into a saucepan, bring to a boil, add sugar and dissolve.
4. Place pumpkin, bring to a boil, cook for 1 minute and chill.
5. Pour in lemon juice, stir.
6. Grind the juice with a blender or mixer.
Pour the prepared juice into glasses.
Pumpkin juice in a slow cooker
Wash the pumpkin, peel, remove the seeds, grate on a coarse grater.
Place the pumpkin in the upper container of the juicer, pour water into the lower part. Boil pumpkin juice for 45 minutes. Pour hot juice into sterilized jars, cool and store.
You can easily diversify the taste of boiled pumpkin juice if you add an apple, carrot, sea buckthorn, orange during cooking.
Pumpkin juice for the winter
ProductsPumpkin - 1.5 kilograms
Water - 3 liters
Sugar - 300 grams
Lemon - 1 piece
How to cook pumpkin juice for the winter
1. Thoroughly wash 1.5 kg pumpkin, peel, remove seeds and fibers.
2. Grate the peeled pumpkin on a fine grater.
3. Add 300 grams of sugar to 3 liters of water and bring to a boil.
4. Prepare sugar syrup until sugar is completely dissolved.
5. Pour the grated pumpkin over with boiling sugar syrup and cook for 15 minutes.
6. The resulting juice should be left to cool completely.
7. Wash 1 lemon and squeeze juice from it.
8. Add lemon juice to pumpkin and grind the resulting juice with a blender.
9. Bring the resulting juice to a boil over high heat.
10. Then reduce the gas and cook over low heat for 15 minutes.
11. Pour the ready pumpkin juice into sterilized jars.
Fusofacts
- For those who do not like pure pumpkin juice, you can combine it with apple, carrot juice, as well as orange or cranberry juice.- Pumpkin juice can be obtained by squeezing the pumpkin in a juicer.
- Pumpkin cake should not be thrown away: it can be used to make face masks, and can also be used in cooking for baking, porridge and mashed soups.
- Pumpkin fruits are well stored until spring in dark and cool places, so it is better to make fresh pumpkin juice that does not undergo pasteurization.
- Pumpkin should be squeezed out in portions, since the shelf life of fresh pumpkin juice in the refrigerator is 1-2 hours. After this time, he loses some of his nutrients.
- When making pumpkin juice, it is important to use medium sized pumpkins weighing about 5-6 kilograms. The stalk on them should be dry and firm, and the fruits themselves should be free of external damage: this is an indicator of the ripeness of the pumpkin.
- Calorie content of pumpkin juice - 38 kcal / 100 grams.
- The cost of a large pumpkin on average in Moscow for the 2020 season is 30-60 rubles / 1 kilogram (for July 2020).