Today we have the sun and "orange" mood! Bright fragrant pumpkin and juicy carrot perfectly match the excellent mood! And although there are already big snowdrifts around, we know how to keep a piece of summer and warmth.
I suggest you prepare a wonderful, fragrant, bright and tender juice from pumpkin and carrots for the winter. Everyone knows about the benefits of pumpkin and carrots, these vegetables are a real storehouse of vitamins and microelements. Juices and puree from pumpkin and carrots are very useful for both small children and us, quite adults. Having prepared this juice at least once, you will forever refuse store-bought juices. You will see how a beautiful fragrant pumpkin gives off its tender juice, and dense juicy carrots complement it. We will not boil this juice, let it be not only tasty, but also useful.
So, for cooking pumpkin- carrot juice for the winter we will take a pumpkin, carrots and a little sugar. I recommend adding the juice of half a lemon, but that's up to you.
Peel and cut carrots in small pieces to get as much juice as possible.
Let's prepare the pumpkin - cut the skin and remove the bones. I'll cut it into pieces.
The easiest way to get natural juice is to use a juicer. Carrot juice turned out to be about 250 ml.
Pumpkin juice turned out 300 ml. The amount of juice depends on the juiciness of the products and on the power of your juicer.
The squeezes turned out to be very nice, we will not throw them away, but pour 1 liter of water and bring to a boil.
While the broth boils, squeeze the juice from half a lemon.
Strain the resulting broth, add carrot and pumpkin juices, as well as lemon juice and sugar to it (adjust the amount to taste).
Let's put the juice on the fire, but in no case do not boil! We heat up to the first bubbles, remove from heat and immediately pour into pre-sterilized jars. Close the lids tightly, turn over and wrap until cool. Pumpkin-carrot juice for the winter is ready!
Incredibly tasty, rich, delicate and beautiful juice from pumpkin and carrot will delight you at any time of the year, and especially in winter! Bon appetit! Prepare for health!
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How often do you drink pumpkin juice? I know that many people are skeptical about vegetable drinks, considering them a pretentious invention of radical healthy lifestyles. And how can you drink a vegetable? You know, in many ways I adhere to the same position, but pumpkin juice is a pleasant exception.
It is good on its own and goes well with other vegetables and fruits, complementing and emphasizing their taste.
Well, do not forget that the pumpkin contains a bunch beneficial vitamins and at the same time very cheap (which is important if you do not grow it yourself). There are not so many vegetables and fruits that combine these two parameters at the same time.
Today I want to show you some great recipes pumpkin juice for long storage so you have a supply delicious vitamins until the next harvest.
Tried to pick the best delicious combinations ingredients you are guaranteed to love.
How to make delicious pumpkin juice with pulp for the winter
First, let's prepare the juice without everything. We won't be using a juicer.
Generally, according to classic recipe, we will need a sieve for grinding pumpkins, but I suggest not to reject technological progress and use an immersion blender instead of a sieve.
If you often do winter preparations then you probably have it.
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin - 1.5 kg (peeled)
- Water - 1.7 l
- Sugar - 100-150 g
- Lemon juice - 3 tablespoons
Cooking:
1. We clean the pumpkin from the peel and seeds and cut into small cubes. The smaller the cubes, the faster the cooking process will go.
2. Put them in a saucepan, fill with water and set to maximum heat. When the water boils, reduce the heat to medium, cover the pan with a lid and cook for 15-20 minutes until fully prepared pumpkins.
Readiness is checked in the same way as for boiled potatoes, we pierce with a knife and if it freely enters the pulp, then it's ready.
3. Now let the pumpkin cool down a bit and beat it with an immersion blender. If there is no blender, grind it through a sieve.
4. At this stage, add and taste sugar. Everyone's tastes are different, you may want a sweeter juice. Consistency is also checked at this stage. If the juice seems too thick for you, then add boiling water.
5. Return the pan to the fire, bring the juice to a boil, then reduce the heat to a minimum and remove the resulting foam.
6. Turn off the stove, add to the pan lemon juice, mix and pour the still hot juice into sterilized jars, filling them to the very top. After that, we roll up the banks and leave to cool over the blanket upside down. Cooled jars are stored in a cool place.
From the indicated amount of products, 4 cans of juice with a volume of 750 ml will be obtained.
Recipe for pumpkin juice with apples at home
One of the most successful combinations. Light apple sourness is diluted with a mild pumpkin flavor and the result is just awesome juice.
Ingredients:
- Peeled pumpkin - 800-1000 g
- Apples - 3 pcs
- Juice of 1 lemon
- Sugar - 100 g
The recipe is designed for cooking in a 3 liter saucepan.
Cooking:
1. We clean the pumpkin and cut it large pieces. Remove the skin from the apples, remove the core and cut into slices.
We put everything in a three-liter saucepan (it will be filled almost to the top) and fill it with water to the very edge.
2. We put the pan on medium heat, bring to a boil, then cover it with a lid, reduce the heat to a minimum and cook for 15-20 minutes until the pumpkin is fully cooked.
3. Now carefully drain the water into a hotel container (it will still come in handy for us), and we interrupt the boiled pumpkin and apple with a blender in mashed potatoes, adding sugar before that.
You can not drain the water if you are too lazy, but whipping the toga will be more difficult.
4. Pour back the previously drained water, put the pan on the fire again and bring the juice to a boil, stirring it occasionally.
When the juice boils, remove the resulting foam, add the juice from 1 squeezed lemon, mix and pour the still hot liquid into pre-sterilized jars.
We roll up the jars and cool them upside down on a blanket. After cooling, store in a cool place.
How to cook pumpkin juice with apple juice
Or you can not cook apples with pumpkin, but first pass them through a juicer. Then the juice will turn out lighter, and the pulp will be less.
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin - 900 g
- Apples - 2 kg
- Orange - 2 pcs
- Lemon - 1 pc.
- Sugar - 200 g
- Water - 250 ml
From the specified amount of products, 2-2.5 liters of juice will be obtained.
Cooking:
1. We clean the pumpkin, cut it into small pieces, put it in a saucepan, pour 250 ml of water and cook over medium heat until soft.
2. My lemon and oranges, pour over with boiling water and rub the zest with a grater. Then we cut the fruit and squeeze the juice out of them.
3. Add the squeezed juice and zest to the boiled pumpkin and cook for 5-10 minutes over low heat under a closed lid.
4. Then beat the mixture with a blender until puree.
5. Let's move on to apples. We pass them through a juicer.
6. And then we filter the resulting juice through a double layer of gauze.
7. Pour it into a saucepan with mashed potatoes, add sugar, mix and bring the mixture to a boil.
8. After that, cook the juice for another 5 minutes, and then pour it into pre-sterilized jars.
Close the lids tightly, cool the jars under a blanket and store them in a cool place.
Pumpkin juice with carrots through a juicer - you will lick your fingers
But if you have a juicer, you can make juice much easier without boiling it first. Let's look at the example of carrot-pumpkin juice.
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin pulp - 7.5 kg
- Carrots - 2.5 kg
- Sugar - 100 g
From 2.5 kg of peeled vegetables, an average of 1 liter of juice is obtained.
Cooking:
1. The presence of a juicer greatly simplifies and speeds up the process. We clean the pumpkin and carrots and separately pass through the juicer.
2. We combine carrot and pumpkin juice in a ratio of 3 to 1 (for 3 parts of pumpkin for 1 part of carrot), put on fire and bring to a boil over medium heat. When the mixture boils, remove the resulting foam.
Then add sugar, mix and cook for a couple more minutes.
3. Juice is ready. Pour it into pre-sterilized jars, close with metal lids and leave to cool upside down.
Video on how to make pumpkin juice for the winter with an orange
And finally, I suggest watching a short video on how to make pumpkin-orange juice. The video is short but informative, so spend 3 minutes, you won't regret it.
Here, in general terms, are the main methods for preparing and mixing pumpkin juice. Each of them has their own special taste and flavor, so I recommend trying each one before deciding which one to stock up for the winter.
And that's all for today, thank you for your attention.
pumpkin juice rich in trace elements and vitamins, so it is useful to drink it in winter period both children and adults. This drink will not only strengthen immune system, but also help in the fight against various chronic diseases. Therefore, you can forget about beriberi.
For improvement palatability, it is prepared with the addition various ingredients. We will consider popular recipes for harvesting for the winter. This drink is stored, maybe for a long time, so roll up several cans at once.
Pumpkin juice is also useful for overweight people and older women, as it improves the condition of the skin, hair and has excellent cleansing effects, removing toxins from the body.
So, let's get acquainted with the technology of preparing this miraculous drink in various versions.
It is very popular and simple blank. Juice is obtained with rich and pleasant taste. Therefore, the first recipe will be without the addition of other vegetables and fruits.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg pumpkin;
- 1.5 liters of water;
- Sugar and lemon juice to taste.
Cooking
Cut the pumpkin pulp into small pieces, rinse under running water. Then we send them to the pan, pour in clean water and cook until soft.
When the vegetable is cooked, it must be chopped with a blender until a homogeneous mass is formed. Then add lemon juice and sugar. Bring to a boil again and remove from the stove.
Pour the hot drink into sterile glass jars and screw on the lids.
The workpiece must cool before putting it in a cool place. Bon appetit!
Pumpkin juice with orange and lemon for the winter
Pumpkin is stored for a long time, so you can make a drink out of it not only in autumn, but also in winter. First recipe fast food. Any hostess will cope with this process, even one who has never made such a blank.
Ingredients:
- 5 kg of pumpkin;
- 2 oranges;
- 2 lemons;
- 10 g of citric acid;
- 3 cups white sugar.
Cooking
Be sure to wash the vegetables. Then we cut it into several large parts, we extract all the insides and seeds. Then we cut off the peel and cut the flesh into small cubes. It is recommended to wash the slices with cold water.
We send the pieces to the pan, completely fill with clean water. We put the container on the stove and cook until the vegetable is soft. Then we turn the mixture into a puree mass.
Pour oranges and lemons with boiling water and dry. After that, we peel and pass through a meat grinder. In puree we send fruit pulp, zest and granulated sugar. We cook on medium heat.
When the sugar crystals are completely dissolved in the mixture, then add water in a ratio of 3: 1. Bring the liquid to a boil.
The resulting drink is poured into jars, which must first be sterilized. We cork with metal lids and put it upside down in a warm place.
Pumpkin juice for the winter - lick your fingers recipe
Despite the fact that all methods of preparing a drink are quite simple, the juice is not only healthy, but also very tasty. Let's consider one of these ways.
Ingredients:
- 700 g pumpkin;
- 1 liter of water;
- 1 tbsp lemon juice;
- 2 tbsp sugar.
Cooking
Cut the pulp of the fruit into medium pieces, send them to the pan and pour cold water. After boiling, cook for a quarter of an hour under a closed lid.
After cooling, add the required amount of sugar, lemon juice. If you want to give a drink original taste you can use cinnamon and nutmeg.
Grind all ingredients with an immersion blender.
The resulting mixture is poured into sterile jars and rolled up with lids.
From the indicated amount of ingredients, we got 1.5 liters of a healthy drink.
How to make pumpkin juice with apples without sugar
If you want to do natural product without any additives and granulated sugar, then use this recipe. Step-by-step instruction shown in the following video:
You need to spend a little time to enjoy a vitamin drink with a pleasant taste in cold weather. If desired, you can add spices to achieve the original flavor.
How to make carrot-pumpkin juice for the winter through a juicer
The pumpkin is famous for its useful properties ah, but if you make a drink out of it and add more carrots, then this product will not be equal. But with problems with the gastrointestinal tract, such juice is contraindicated.
Ingredients:
- 2.5 kg of carrots;
- 7.5 kg of pumpkin;
- 100 g of granulated sugar.
Cooking
First, let's prepare the vegetables. Clean and cut into manageable pieces.
Through the juicer, we alternately send first the pumpkin, and then the carrots.
From the indicated amount of products, we will get 1 liter of carrot juice and 3 liters of pumpkin drink. We mix them together.
We put the pan on the stove and bring the liquid to a boil. Be sure to remove the foam, then add granulated sugar. Stir and cook for about 3 minutes.
We pour the resulting drink into jars that we previously sterilized. It remains to tighten the lids, turn the workpiece over and leave it to cool completely.
Try this recipe and you won't regret it. The drink will appeal to all family members. Banks should be stored in a cool place.
How to make pumpkin juice with pulp for the winter at home
If you drink 300 g of a drink prepared according to this recipe every day, then you will forget about seasonal viral diseases. Prepare several jars so that you do not experience vitamin deficiency in the winter.
Ingredients:
- 1.5 kg of peeled pumpkin;
- 3 tbsp lemon juice;
- 1700 ml of water;
- 100 g sugar.
Cooking
We cut the fruit, remove all the insides, and also cut off the peel. The pulp is cut into pieces of arbitrary shape.
Fill the pumpkin with water at room temperature, put it on the burner and, after boiling, cook with the lid closed over medium heat until the vegetable is fully cooked.
When the pumpkin becomes soft, then grind it with a blender. If you do not have this kitchen tool, then you can grind through a sieve.
Put the saucepan back on the fire and bring the puree mass to a boil. If it seemed to you that the consistency is too thick, then pour in boiled water. After boiling, remove the foam, add sugar and remove from the stove.
Now pour in the indicated amount of lemon juice and pour into sterile jars.
We twist the workpiece with lids, leave at room temperature until completely cooled.
To make a drink long-term storage, then instead of sugar, it is better to add 4 tsp of natural honey, which dissolves not in hot, but in warm liquid, otherwise it will lose its beneficial properties.
Pumpkin juice with dried apricots through a juicer at home
To simplify the process of preparing drinks, you should buy kitchen appliances such as a juicer. With its help, you can make a delicious drink without much effort.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin pulp;
- Dried apricots.
Cooking:
- We fill the lower compartment with water to the upper mark and send it to the stove;
- From above we put the device into which the drink will be collected and install a sieve;
- Sliced pumpkin pulp with dried apricots is sent to a sieve and closed with a lid. Steam over medium heat.
- We immediately substitute the jars under the hose from which the juice will flow.
We must sterilize the containers in the oven, microwave, under steam or in another convenient way.
- Close the jars immediately and put them in a warm place to cool.
You need to store such juice in the cellar, and best of all in the refrigerator. This will increase the shelf life of a healthy drink.
How to cook pumpkin juice for the winter without a juicer
To prepare a tasty and healthy drink, it is not necessary to have special kitchen devices. There is a simple way to prepare, which we will now consider.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg pumpkin;
- ¼ lemon;
- 1 orange;
- 150 g sugar.
Cooking
Cut the fruit and remove the peel. Cut into slices of any shape.
Fill the pieces with water and send to the stove to cook until fully cooked.
Meanwhile, squeeze the juice from the lemon and orange. Try not to get the bones in the liquid.
In about half an hour, the vegetable will be ready. Grind the pieces with an immersion blender and pour in the citrus juice. Then add sugar and taste. After boiling, cook for another 10 minutes.
It remains to pour the drink into sterilized jars and roll it up using a special key.
We wrap the workpiece in an inverted state and leave to cool.
Banks should be stored in a cool place. The juice will not spoil during the entire winter period.
Pumpkin juice with citric acid in jars for the winter
There is one more simple recipe preparing a healthy drink for the winter. It will take us no more than half an hour to make a blank and leave it to cool.
Ingredients:
- 3 kg of peeled pumpkin;
- 2 liters of water;
- 2 tsp citric acid;
- 400 g sugar.
Cooking
Cut the pumpkin pulp into medium pieces, fill with cold water and put on the stove. After boiling, cook for 10 minutes.
Grind the boiled pieces through a juicer. You can also use a blender or grind through a sieve.
Add citric acid and granulated sugar to the liquid. We put the pan on the stove. After boiling, remove the foam and cook for about one minute.
Pour the juice into sterile jars, twist the boiled lids and turn over.
If you care about your health, be sure to make this drink, which will strengthen your immune system in the winter.
Pumpkin juice with sea buckthorn: the best recipe
Thanks to this method of preparation, you will be able to prepare juice, the usefulness of which cannot be underestimated. In addition, it turns out tasty, so children will like it. Watch the following video for step-by-step instructions:
Banks are best stored in the refrigerator. And if there is no space, then put it in the pantry or cellar.
This juice can not be drunk with low acidity of the stomach. And with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, this drink should be completely excluded from your diet. In some cases, an allergic reaction is possible.
If you and your family members do not have any contraindications, then be sure to roll up a few cans for the winter.
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Rating 2.83 /5 (27 votes)Pumpkin juice is healthy and delicious preparation for the winter. An orange drink with a delicate velvety taste will remind you of the warm caressing summer sun, and fills the body with health. Indeed, thanks to its vitamin composition pumpkin juice occupies a leading position among fruit and vegetable juices.
pumpkin juice home cooking is a rich source of vitamin K, iron, ascorbic acid and beta-carotene.
Recipes for making pumpkin juice for the winter
Pumpkin juice is a storehouse of vitamins and minerals. Therefore, such a drink should be on the table in every home. Juice is prepared quite simply and quickly. Consider some of the most popular recipes, in particular, we suggest looking at pumpkin juice for the winter at home with an orange.
Pumpkin juice with orange for the winter - a step by step recipe with a photo
Ingredients:
- large pumpkin - 1 pc. (about 5 kg.);
- oranges - 3 pcs.;
- sugar - 300 g.
Cooking time - 2 hours, of which 30 minutes - preparation of ingredients.
Juice calories: 100 g - 30.67 Kcal.
The yield of juice depends on the size of the pumpkin and the method of mashing (if you rub through a sieve, the juice will be thick, but there will be little of it; when puree with an immersion blender - at least 3 three-liter jars).
No wonder the pumpkin is called the queen of autumn. You can cook a lot of things from it: juice, puree soup, various pastries, and candied fruits. Let's take a closer look at juice. But it will not be just pumpkin juice, but with the addition of oranges. The bottom line will be that a little sourness will be added to the sweetness of the pumpkin - vitamin C, which is very necessary for the human body. Pumpkin juice with orange for the winter turns out to be very tasty and healthy, it is stored perfectly in the conditions of the apartment: it will stand without problems for a year. The recipe for pumpkin juice with orange for the winter is very simple, even a young housewife can handle it.
How to make pumpkin juice with orange for the winter at home - step by step recipe with photo
First you need to sterilize the jars in any way convenient for you: in the oven, on the stove, in the air grill. Metal lids also need to be sterilized.
Pumpkin must be washed under running water, peeled and cut into cubes.
Put the pieces in a saucepan and pour in water so that it is at the level of the pumpkin. Bring to a boil and boil for 10 minutes.
Then the mass must be rubbed through a metal sieve.
You can, of course, use an immersion blender, then you get a lot more juice, but I prefer thick pumpkin juice.
Bring the mass to a boil and immediately pour into sterilized jars. Roll up the lids.
Pumpkin-orange juice for the winter is ready! It is very tasty and extremely useful! Agree that even a person who has never dealt with harvesting before will be able to prepare pumpkin juice with oranges at home for the winter. In the cold season, it will be so nice to open a can of juice and enjoy every sip. I hope you liked the recipe and now you can easily answer the question of how to make pumpkin juice without a juicer at home for the winter. Prepare this wonderful drink at home, I assure you, you will not be disappointed.
Above is orange-pumpkin juice - a recipe at home for the winter with step by step photos. Below you will find other variations of pumpkin juice.
Pumpkin-carrot juice for the winter through a juicer
Such a wonderful bright orange drink with delicate taste will keep all his vitamins, tk. amenable to minimal heat treatment.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin 1.2 kg
- granulated sugar 100 g
- carrot 800 g
Cooking method:
- Wash the carrots, remove the skin and cut into small pieces to get more juice. Cut the pumpkin in half, remove the seeds, cut off the rough skin and also cut into small cubes.
- Pass the vegetables individually through a juicer. The output will be 250 ml of carrot and 300 ml of pumpkin juice.
- Pour the resulting cake with a liter of water and put on the stove to boil. Strain the resulting broth through cheesecloth.
- Mix in a saucepan vegetable broth with juice and sugar. Heat the mixture until the first bubbles appear, immediately set aside and pour into sterile jars. Screw on the lids, insulate and soak until completely cooled.
Apple-pumpkin juice for the winter through a juicer and without it
For this recipe, you will need a minimum of ingredients, and the juicer will do all the work.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin 800 g
- sugar 300 g
- apples 1.2 kg
Cooking method:
- Wash and clean the pumpkin, remove the seeds, cut off the skin. Grate the pulp on a coarse grater. Pour the grated pumpkin with a little water and cook until tender.
- Then pass the resulting mass through a juicer.
- Cut the apples into fairly large slices, cut out the seed box. Run fruit through a juicer.
- Pour fruit and vegetable juices into a saucepan, add sugar and mix.
- Put the dishes on the fire, bring to a boil and boil for 7 minutes. Then pour into sterile clean jars.
- Immerse the jars up to their shoulders in hot water and sterilize for 20 minutes. Roll up jars with lids and cool.
- You can also cook apple pumpkin juice for the winter without a juicer. To do this, replace the apples with apple juice. For 800 g of pumpkin you will need 300 ml apple juice and 2/3 cup granulated sugar.
- As in the first case, boil the pumpkin until tender, adding a little water to the pieces of pumpkin.
- Rub the pulp through a sieve. Mix the resulting puree with apple juice and sugar.
- Heat the juice on the stove for 7 minutes and roll up.
Pumpkin juice with lemon for the winter
This recipe useful for those who do not have a juicer in their kitchen arsenal. Our grandmothers used this technology for harvesting pumpkin juice.
Ingredients:
- unpeeled pumpkin 3.5 kg;
- sugar 12 tbsp
- water 1 l
- large lemon 0.5 pcs.
- citric acid 5 g
Cooking method:
- Peel the pumpkin, cut into slices, cut off the peel and cut the flesh into arbitrary pieces. Put the vegetable in a saucepan, cover with water and cook over medium heat. Stir the contents periodically. The pumpkin will take about 40 minutes to cook.
- Using an immersion blender or a food processor, purée the pumpkin mixture. Add sugar, citric acid and juice from half a lemon. To remove solids, pass the juice through a fine sieve, using a spoon to help.
- Put the dishes with juice on the stove and boil at a slow boil for about 5 minutes after the moment of boiling.
- Pour hot juice into sterile glass containers, screw on the lids and cool under the covers.
Pumpkin juice with dried apricots for the winter
A very unusual combination of flavors of sweet and sour dried apricots and pumpkin. Add a pleasant sourness to the workpiece with lemon juice.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin pulp 650 g
- dried apricots 100 g
- small carrot 1 pc.
- lemon juice 1 tsp
- sugar 300 g
Cooking method:
- Cut the prepared vegetables into medium pieces, mix with dried apricots and put it all in a saucepan. Fill the contents with water so that the liquid completely covers it. After boiling, boil the mass for 40 minutes until all the ingredients are soft.
- Puree with an immersion blender. Add lemon juice and sugar, stir. Pour in 1 liter of water, boil the juice for 10 minutes and roll it into jars.
Recipe for pumpkin juice with sea buckthorn for the winter without sugar
You can stock up on pumpkin and sea buckthorn juice after the main harvesting season. Sea buckthorn remains on the branches until frost, so it is not necessary to rush to harvest it. Moreover, sagging longer on the branches, the berries accumulate more vitamins.
Ingredients
- pumpkin juice 5 l
- sea buckthorn 1.5 kg
- water 1 tbsp.
Cooking method:
- Prepare pumpkin juice in any convenient way.
- Rinse the sea buckthorn, sort it out, removing damaged and rotten berries. Put the berries in a saucepan, cover with water and boil over medium heat until soft. Wipe the berry mass through a sieve, periodically cleaning it from the cake.
- Mix two types of juice in a saucepan and bring the mass to a boil. To retain most of the nutrients, boil the juice for no more than 5 minutes over low heat.
- Pour boiling juice into sterile jars and roll up with tin lids.
Pumpkin juice with citric acid
Pumpkin juice is a nutritious, delicious and surprisingly healthy drink. This recipe is easy to prepare and requires a minimum of ingredients.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin peeled 2.5 kg
- water 2100 ml
- sugar 1.5 tbsp.
- citric acid 0.5 tsp
Cooking method:
- Prepare pumpkin as described in previous recipes. Put the pumpkin in a saucepan with a thick bottom, pour half a glass of water, put on a slow fire. Simmer the pumpkin until soft, about 20 minutes. Remove the boiled pumpkin from the stove and puree with a blender.
- From the remaining sugar, citric acid and water, boil the syrup so that the sugar and acid crystals are completely dissolved. Add to simmering syrup pumpkin puree, mix thoroughly. Boil the mass for a quarter of an hour at a slow boil.
- Pour the prepared hot juice into jars and roll up the lids.
How to make pumpkin juice for the winter?
Pumpkin juice at home can be prepared different ways, use various additives and fillers. All the subtleties and secrets of preparing this the healthiest drink you will learn from this article.
What is the best pumpkin for juicing?
The quality of the final product depends on the quality and variety of pumpkin. When choosing a pumpkin, please note that not all varieties are suitable for juicing. For juice, the varieties Butternut, Amazon, Vitamin Gray and Candied Fruit are perfect. Moreover, each variety has its own special aftertaste.
As for the quality of vegetables, for juice it is necessary to select fresh vegetables no damage, recently plucked from the garden. The fruits should not be very large (no more than 5 kg), large pumpkins are dry and bitter inside.
Pumpkin must be fully ripe, without damage. In such a fruit, a dry tail easily breaks off. The pulp of a pumpkin suitable for juice should have a rich bright color. The brighter the color, the more vitamins are contained in the pulp. It is not recommended to purchase a pumpkin cut into pieces, because. she could be spoiled.
The longer the pumpkin is stored, the more moisture and nutrients it loses. Therefore, the preparation of juice should not be delayed and stocks for the winter should be made in the fall.
How to prepare pumpkin for cooking?
Before proceeding with the preparation of juice, it is necessary to prepare the main ingredient for processing. To do this, wash the pumpkin thoroughly under running water, cut into 2 or 4 parts. Scrape out the fibrous pulp with seeds, cut the pumpkin into slices. And then cut off the tough skin from each piece.
If you plan to make juice with pulp, then the fibrous core can be left by removing only the seeds.
Further preparation of juice occurs in accordance with the selected recipe. Juice can be squeezed from raw vegetable or pre-pot the pumpkin for softness. And then puree or rub through a sieve.
How long can pumpkin juice be stored?
Depending on the method of preparation of pumpkin juice, its shelf life differs.
Freshly squeezed juice is consumed within 10 minutes, so it is not advisable to prepare it in large volumes. Even in the refrigerator, pumpkin fresh loses its nutritional value every minute.
If the juice is for winter storage, then it must be consumed within 6-12 months. Pasteurized juice is stored for up to six months, and a sterilized drink can stand in the basement for up to a year.
Can you drink raw pumpkin juice?
Pumpkin juice in its raw form is not only possible to drink, but also necessary. A freshly prepared drink contains the highest percentage of useful vitamins, trace elements and minerals. It is indispensable for seasonal beriberi and is recommended even for children, because. is a hypoallergenic product.
How to make pumpkin juice at home
Modern technologies greatly simplified the life of housewives in the kitchen. Therefore, today you can make pumpkin juice for the winter in various ways. Consider several ways to prepare pumpkin juice for the winter.
Making pumpkin juice in a juicer
To prepare juice in a juicer, prepared pieces of pumpkin are passed through the apparatus. This process is quite easy and fast. To taste, the juice is flavored with sugar, honey or diluted with other fruit, vegetable or berry juices. Freshly squeezed juice should be consumed immediately.
To prepare the squeezed juice for the winter, it is heated over low heat for 3-5 minutes and rolled into sterile glass jars.
Pumpkin pomace can be used to make an excellent thick jam or delicious stuffing for the pie.
Pumpkin juice in a juicer
In a juicer, juice is prepared by steam. Water is poured into the lower part to the desired mark. In the upper container with holes, a prepared pumpkin cut into pieces is laid. When the water boils, the steam rises and heats the raw material. Pumpkin juice is gradually released, flows down the spout directly into a sterile container.
If the recipe for pumpkin juice in a pressure cooker for the winter contains additional ingredients, then the juice is collected in a saucepan. Then it is mixed with the necessary additives and reheated on the stove. Then it is packaged in banks.
Pumpkin juice - a recipe through a meat grinder for the winter
If there is neither a juicer nor a juicer, but you do not want to rub the mass manually through a sieve. To prepare juice, you can use a conventional meat grinder. To do this, we cut the prepared pumpkin into small pieces so that they fit into the socket of the meat grinder, and grind.
The resulting mass is squeezed through a double layer of sterile gauze or other well-permeable liquid tissue. Mixing juice with sugar citric acid, warm it up at a temperature of 90 degrees for 5-10 minutes. This process is called pasteurization. After such heat treatment almost all useful substances remain in the composition of the product, and its shelf life increases significantly.
The subtleties of making pumpkin juice and the difficulties that may arise
At first glance, there is nothing complicated in making pumpkin juice. But sometimes bad things happen. Next, we will talk about what to do in case of force majeure.
Why does white sediment appear in homemade pumpkin juice?
Juices prepared for the winter glass jars should be stored in cool dark rooms. If the storage conditions are violated and the workpiece was stored with access to light, then ascorbic acid begins to break down. In this case, the color of the drink changes and a whitish precipitate appears at the bottom of the jar. Such juice is not suitable for consumption, because. it contains almost no substances useful for the body.
Why is pumpkin juice bitter?
Sometimes canned pumpkin juice is bitter. This means that it was made from large overripe fruits. In addition, some varieties of pumpkin have a bitter taste. Also, bitterness can appear in a pumpkin of any variety if the plant did not receive enough moisture during the period of growth and ripening of the fruit.
Another reason for bitterness - long-term storage fruits. If juice is made from such a vegetable, it will most likely also be bitter.
Why does pumpkin juice thicken?
Pumpkin juice itself has a viscous, thick texture. Therefore, the consistency of the juice directly depends on the amount of water or syrup added to the pumpkin puree. To make the juice not so thick, you can supplement it with thinner apple or orange juice.
What to do if pumpkin juice fermented?
Pumpkin juice does not contain its own acid, so another acid is usually added to it for storage. But it often happens that the juice begins to deteriorate and ferment. In this case, the jar must be opened and the juice boiled again for 5-10 minutes.
Such a drink is no longer suitable for re-canning. But on its basis, you can cook delicious fruit drinks, jelly, jelly or homemade wine.
Pumpkin juice - benefits and harms
Beneficial features pumpkins are hard to overestimate. It has a beneficial effect on almost all organs and systems of the human body. Freshly made pumpkin juice, the main part of which is water, brings the greatest benefit. Surprisingly, this liquid is very close in structure to human blood plasma and lymph.
Fiber and pectin, contained in large quantities in pumpkin pulp, bring invaluable benefits to the body. These substances have a beneficial effect on digestive system, effectively cleanse the intestines and normalize metabolic processes.
With a small amount of fat, pumpkin is rich in vegetable protein and vitamins A, E, K, B, C, as well as calcium, iron, zinc, potassium and a number of other minerals and trace elements.
Pumpkin juice is often used for the prevention and treatment of many diseases.
Despite all the "pros", pumpkin juice also has "cons".
- First of all, juice should not be consumed by people with individual intolerance this product.
- Also, you need to carefully use this drink in the presence of stomach diseases.
- You can not drink juice with diarrhea, because. its reception can only aggravate the situation.
What are the benefits of freshly squeezed pumpkin juice?
During heat treatment, any product loses most of its nutrients. The same goes for pumpkin juice. That's why the greatest benefit the body will bring fresh pumpkin juice. It is rightly called healing or living water.
Fresh pumpkin juice has a tonic effect on the body, improves blood circulation. It is also a powerful antioxidant that helps remove heavy metal salts from the body, which prevents the onset of cancer.
Can you drink freshly squeezed pumpkin juice every day? If there are no contraindications, then the daily use of pumpkin juice is only welcome. A healthy person can drink 0.5 cups of a fresh drink before breakfast.
Pumpkin juice - benefits for women
Pumpkin juice has a very beneficial effect on health and appearance women.
Firstly, fiber cleanses the intestines of toxins and speeds up metabolism. This, in turn, causes a natural decrease in body weight, the skin of the face is refreshed and tightened, acne disappears, fine wrinkles are smoothed out.
Secondly, the immune system is strengthened and nervous system, blood composition improves, puffiness disappears and the heart muscle is strengthened.
What is useful pumpkin juice for men?
Men should pay attention to the positive effects of pumpkin juice on the prostate gland. Regular use This drink has a positive tonic effect on men's health. Supports sexual function and promotes the production of male hormones.
Juice also cleanses the bile ducts, which improves the functioning of the gallbladder. It has a preventive effect on adenoma and prostatitis.
What diseases are pumpkin juice useful for?
Pumpkin juice is an excellent prevention and an additional way to treat many diseases. But we must remember that any course of treatment, even useful juice pumpkin, should be carried out only after consulting a doctor.
Can pumpkin juice with gastritis?
If the disease occurs against the background of increased secretion of gastric juice, then pumpkin juice will help to establish digestion processes, increase bile secretion and normalize the production of hydrochloric acid. With low acidity, juice must be excluded from the diet.
Can pumpkin juice with pancreatitis?
Patients with acute pancreatitis should not drink pumpkin juice, because. it contains many organic acids.
In case of chronic pancreatitis, pumpkin juice is allowed in diet food in small quantities.
Does Pumpkin Juice Help Kidney Stones?
Pumpkin juice is famous for its ability to destroy stones and a strong diuretic effect. Therefore, this makes it an indispensable product for diseases of the kidneys and urinary system. Please note that the intake of juice should be started only after consulting a specialist and a complete medical examination.