Carrot-pumpkin juice

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 40 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make carrot-pumpkin juice for the winter? Take a freshly harvested pumpkin; it will be juicier than last year's. Carrots also need to be tasty and sweet. Wash the vegetables under running water. I use freshly squeezed lemon juice, but commercially produced ones will also work.

2. STEP 2

   

   Peel the carrots and cut into medium-sized pieces. Transfer to a blender glass.

3. STEP 3

   

   Peel the pumpkin and remove the insides in the form of seeds. I find it convenient to peel the skin with a vegetable peeler, but a regular knife will do. A regular tablespoon will do to remove the entrails.

4. STEP 4

   

   Also cut the pumpkin into arbitrary medium-sized pieces.

5. STEP 5

   

   Transfer the pumpkin to a blender glass. Instead of a blender, you can use a juicer (this will be ideal).

6. STEP 6

   

   Grind the ingredients into a smooth puree. The puree turns out thick, but this is understandable: pumpkin and carrots are not the juiciest vegetables.

7. STEP 7

   

   Place the puree in a colander lined with two layers of thick gauze.

8. STEP 8

   

   Squeeze out the juice. I got about 500 ml. You need to try to make sure that you get the maximum amount of juice, but there is also enough pulp in it. The fact is that if you lighten the juice too much, it will look ugly. The pulp will settle to the bottom, and there will be a transparent component on top. It's like it was diluted with water.

9. STEP 9

   

   This is how much cake I ended up with. Leave it to regulate the density of the juice in the future, and the rest can be used when preparing millet porridge, for example.

10. STEP 10

    

    Pour the juice and pulp into a thick-walled saucepan and bring to a boil over low heat. Assess the thickness of the juice. At this stage, it is possible to add pulp if suddenly you tried hard and squeezed too much of it.

11. STEP 11

    

    While the juice is boiling, sterilize the bottles (or jars) in any convenient way. I do this. I pour a centimeter of regular tap water into each and heat it in the microwave for 3 minutes at 800 W. The water should boil. Just pour boiling water over the lids.

12. STEP 12

    

    Add lemon juice to boiling juice.

13. STEP 13

    

    And sugar. The foam needs to be removed. Cook the juice for another 2-3 minutes until the sugar is completely dissolved. Try the drink, you can add more sugar. Let's move on to the next step.

14. STEP 14

    

    Pour the juice into bottles and seal with lids. In total I got 2 bottles of 300 ml each. Then the bottles are turned upside down and wrapped in a warm blanket until they cool completely. After which they put it in a cool pantry.

Comments on the recipe

SvetaDi

14.10.2023

5

You can try cooking it like this:

Ilga

14.10.2023

4.7

Very tasty carrot-pumpkin juice

@rishk@

14.10.2023

4.9

Healthy, bright, rich carrot-pumpkin juice for the winter with tender pulp! It’s so nice to open a jar of juice in winter and please your loved ones. In addition to the pleasant taste, the juice contains a lot of vitamins and minerals, and what a bright lemon sourness! Thank you very much for the recipe!

Tanchik

14.10.2023

4.5

Hello. When you pour juice into jars, do you need to pour it into a bottle or up to the shoulders of the jar? Thanks for your answer in advance.