Pumpkin juice is rich in microelements and vitamins, so it is useful for both children and adults to drink in winter. This drink will not only strengthen the immune system, but will also help in the fight against various chronic diseases. Therefore, you can forget about vitamin deficiency.
To improve its taste, it is prepared with the addition of various ingredients. We will look at popular recipes for preparing food for the winter. This drink can be stored 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 for preparing this miraculous drink in various versions.
Pumpkin juice at home according to a very tasty recipe
This is a very popular and simple preparation. The juice has a rich and pleasant taste. Therefore, the first recipe will be without adding other vegetables and fruits.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg pumpkin;
- 1.5 liters of water;
- Sugar and lemon juice to taste.
Preparation
Cut the pumpkin pulp into small pieces and rinse under running water. Then we put them in a saucepan, pour in clean water and cook until soft.
When the vegetable is cooked, it must be crushed using 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 down before storing it in a cool place. Bon appetit!
Cooking through a meat grinder with oranges
Pumpkin juice turns out very tasty if you prepare it with oranges. We will prepare the juice by passing the pumpkin pulp through a meat grinder.
- 4.5 kg of pumpkin pulp (weight without peels and seeds);
- 4 kg of oranges;
- 800-1000 gr. sugar (to taste);
- 2 teaspoons citric acid (the amount of acid can be changed to taste).
Cut the peeled pumpkin into small pieces and place it in a saucepan. Pour water so that it is at the level of the pumpkin pieces and put it on the fire.
Wash the oranges well with a brush, then pour boiling water over them and rinse again with cold water. This treatment will remove the waxy coating from the peel. Using a vegetable peeler or grater, remove the zest from one orange, finely chop the zest and add it to the pumpkin.
When the pumpkin becomes soft, turn off the heat and let the pan cool. Pass the soft pumpkin through a meat grinder. Then we dilute the puree with a decoction so that we get a liquid similar in consistency to regular juice with pulp.
Squeeze the juice out of the oranges and strain it so that no seeds get into the drink. Pour orange juice into pumpkin juice. Put the mixture of juices on the fire, add sugar and citric acid to taste. Continue heating the juice, stirring until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Bring the juice to a boil and immediately pour it into a pre-prepared and sterilized container. Immediately cover with a lid and seal tightly.
Pumpkin juice with orange and lemon for the winter
Pumpkin can be stored for a long time, so you can make a drink from it not only in the fall, but also in the winter. The first quick cooking recipe. Any housewife can handle this process, even those who have never made such a preparation.
Ingredients:
- 5 kg pumpkin;
- 2 oranges;
- 2 lemons;
- 10 g citric acid;
- 3 cups white sugar.
Preparation
Be sure to wash the vegetables. Then we cut it into several large pieces, remove all the insides and seeds. Then cut off the peel and cut the pulp into small cubes. It is recommended to wash the slices with cold water.
Place the pieces in a saucepan and fill completely with clean water. Place the container on the stove and cook until the vegetable becomes soft. Then turn the mixture into a puree.
Pour boiling water over oranges and lemons and dry. After this, peel and pass through a meat grinder. Add fruit pulp, zest and granulated sugar to the puree. Cook over medium heat.
When the sugar crystals are completely dissolved in the mixture, 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. Seal with metal lids and place upside down in a warm place.
Juice without pulp and without boiling
Any pumpkin juice, pure or mixed with other fruits, can be prepared without boiling.
This recipe produces a product without pulp, more transparent, and retaining all the vitamins.
Composition of ingredients
The ratio of products can be any. So a pumpkin-carrot or pear mix is usually prepared in a 1:1 ratio. When adding apples, it is advisable to take them half as much as the orange vegetable.
Ingredients:
- fruit mixture – 1 kg;
- water – 2 l;
- sugar - to taste, from 100 to 250 g.
If desired, you can prepare juices from any set of the listed fruits. Plums, cherry plums, and apricots also go well with pumpkin.
Step-by-step cooking process
All fruits selected for juice should be washed and peeled, leaving them in as large pieces as possible.
Further preparation:
- Grate all the fruits on a fine grater or pass through a meat grinder. Fruits with juicy pulp are easier to grind in a blender.
- The fruit mass is placed in a piece of gauze and the juice is squeezed out.
- The remaining pulp can be used to make fruit purees or added to water and heated to obtain additional juice.
- Combine all the juices obtained in one pan, add sugar and add boiled water or strained infusion from the pulp.
- Heat the mixture until the first signs of boiling. It is enough to wait until the sugar is completely dissolved and the first bubbles appear on the surface.
If you want to get the most transparent product possible, the drink is filtered again before packaging. Pour the juice into sterile bottles or jars, seal and store in a cool place. Making pumpkin juice at home is not particularly difficult. To get the full benefit from the drink, this perishable product should be stored correctly. A change in color, the appearance of foam on the surface or swelling of the lids indicates that the juice is spoiled. Such canned food is only suitable for distillation; consuming it without processing is dangerous for digestion.
Rules for storing pumpkin juice using various canning methods:
- When the juice is boiled before rolling into sterile jars or pasteurized after bottling, the juice retains its properties for up to 12 months. It is enough to put such preservation in a dark, cool place.
- If the cans are stored at room temperature, the drink should be consumed within 5-6 months.
- The opened jar is stored in the refrigerator. The value of such juice lasts no longer than 3 days.
- Freshly squeezed juice without heating, and without added sugar and citric acid, has the best performance within 15 minutes.
- Juice prepared from fresh pumpkin without cooking acquires an unpleasant bitter aftertaste after 30 minutes. Therefore, this drink is prepared in small quantities or heated immediately after preparation with a small amount of citric acid.
Pumpkin juice is a very valuable drink, especially if it is prepared according to simple recipes at home. But the concentrated beneficial composition can be harmful in some conditions. Doctors do not recommend pumpkin juice for gastritis, stomach ulcers, and diabetes. Begin to drink the drink with caution in case of low acidity and diseases of the duodenum. In such cases, boiled juices in combination with sour fruits are preferable.
Pumpkin juice for the winter - a finger-licking recipe
Despite the fact that all the methods for preparing the drink are quite simple, the juice is not only healthy, but also very tasty. Let's consider one of these methods.
Ingredients:
- 700 g pumpkin;
- 1 liter of water;
- 1 tbsp lemon juice;
- 2 tbsp sugar.
Preparation
Cut the fruit pulp into medium pieces, place them in a saucepan and fill with cold water. After boiling, cook for a quarter of an hour under a closed lid.
After cooling, add the required amount of sugar and lemon juice. If you want to give the drink an original taste, you can use cinnamon and nutmeg.
Grind all ingredients using an immersion blender.
Pour the resulting mixture into sterile jars and roll up the lids.
From the specified amount of ingredients, we got 1.5 liters of a healthy drink.
With carrots
Carrot juice is extremely beneficial for children, pregnant women, and people of any age, but not everyone likes its characteristic taste. When mixed with pumpkin, the taste of the vegetable softens, and the color of the drink turns out to be even more sunny and orange.
During pregnancy, pumpkin-carrot juice helps saturate the body with essential vitamins and minerals and relieves toxicosis. This drink can be introduced into a child’s complementary feeding starting at 4 months of age. To prevent vitamin deficiency and strengthen the immune system, it is enough for an adult to drink ½ glass of combined juice per day, in the morning on an empty stomach.
Composition of ingredients
Pumpkin juice recipe at home will allow you to prepare it in various combinations and any concentration. Usually the ratio of pumpkin to carrots is 1:1. But you can arbitrarily change the food stack to suit your own taste.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin – 1 kg;
Pumpkin juice. Recipe with carrots.
- carrots – 4–5 large root vegetables;
- citric acid – 1 tbsp. l.;
- granulated sugar – 200 g;
Water for cooking is measured as needed. Usually, 2 cups of liquid is enough to steam the fruit pulp.
Step-by-step cooking process
Carrots are washed, peeled and cut into circles or cubes. The pumpkin is also freed from peel and seeds. The vegetable is then cut into pieces twice as large as carrots. The root vegetable has a denser structure than pumpkin, and when cut this way, the fruits are boiled at the same time.
Preparation:
- Pieces of fruit are placed in a thick-walled pan, water is added, sugar is added and mixed.
- Under a closed lid, simmer the pumpkin and carrots for about ½ hour.
- The softened pulp is turned into puree with a grinder manually or using a blender.
- If desired, dilute the thick mass with boiled water. Sprinkle with citric acid.
- Warm the drink until the first signs of boiling and immediately remove from heat.
- Pour hot juice into jars and seal.
Citric acid in the drink can be replaced with the juice of ½ lemon or 1 orange. The taste and benefits of such juice improve noticeably.
How to make carrot-pumpkin juice for the winter using a juicer
Pumpkin is known for its beneficial properties, but if you make a drink from it and add carrots, then this product will have no equal. But if you have problems with the gastrointestinal tract, this juice is contraindicated.
Ingredients:
- 2.5 kg carrots;
- 7.5 kg pumpkin;
- 100 g granulated sugar.
Preparation
First, let's prepare the vegetables. Peel and cut into convenient pieces.
Alternately put the pumpkin and then the carrots through the juicer.
From the specified amount of products we will get 1 liter of carrot juice and 3 liters of pumpkin drink. Mix them together.
Place the pan on the stove and bring the liquid to a boil. Be sure to skim off the foam, then add granulated sugar. Stir and cook for about 3 minutes.
We pour the resulting drink into jars that we have previously sterilized. All that remains is to screw on the lids, turn the workpiece over and leave it until it cools completely.
Try this recipe and you won't regret it. The drink will appeal to all family members. Jars should be stored in a cool place.
Juice through a juicer with lemon
It is equally easy to make juice by running the pumpkin through a juicer. Let's prepare this version of the drink with lemon.
- 1 kg pumpkin;
- 1 medium sized lemon;
- 250 gr. sugar (or to taste).
We clean the pumpkin from seeds and crusts. Cut into small pieces. We pass the pumpkin through a juicer. If desired, you can add pumpkin pulp to the juice, which remains in the juicer mesh.
Wash the lemon and scald it with boiling water. Remove the zest using a sharp knife or grater (for the specified amount of fruit, it is enough to take 1 teaspoon of zest). Squeeze juice from lemons (almost any brand of juicer has an attachment for squeezing juice from citrus fruits).
Mix two types of juice in a saucepan, put on fire, add sugar. Stir until completely dissolved. We heat the juice until it boils, but do not boil, in order to retain more of the vitamin. Pour the drink into sterile jars and immediately close them tightly with lids.
How to make pumpkin juice with pulp for the winter at home
If you drink 300 g of the drink prepared according to this recipe every day, you will forget about seasonal viral diseases. Prepare several jars so that you don’t experience vitamin deficiency during the winter.
Ingredients:
- 1.5 kg of peeled pumpkin;
- 3 tbsp lemon juice;
- 1700 ml water;
- 100 g sugar.
Preparation
We cut the fruit, remove all the insides, and also cut off the peel. Cut the pulp into pieces of arbitrary shape.
Fill the pumpkin with water at room temperature, place it on the burner and after boiling, cook with the lid closed over medium heat until the vegetable is completely cooked.
When the pumpkin becomes soft, grind it using a blender. If you don’t have this kitchen tool, you can grind it through a sieve.
Place the pan back on the heat and bring the puree mixture to a boil. If you think 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 specified amount of lemon juice and pour into sterile jars.
Screw the lids on and leave at room temperature until completely cooled.
To prepare a short-term storage drink, 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.
With apples
When using a juicer, the apples are passed through the unit in their raw form, and the pumpkin is pre-cooked according to the classic recipe. The liquids are then mixed, brought to a boil and preserved. Thick, pulpy juice from pumpkin and apples can be obtained at home without using a juicer.
Composition of ingredients
A recipe for pumpkin juice at home involves preparing it with the addition of any ripe apples. Both sweet and sour varieties are well suited for the drink. It is appropriate to prepare such mixtures if the pumpkin is not ripe or sweet enough.
Compound:
- pumpkin pulp – 1 kg;
- fresh apples – from 0.5 to 1 kg;
- granulated sugar – from 150 g;
- lemon juice – 1 tbsp. l.;
The amount of water for diluting the composition depends on personal taste, the concentration of the drink and varies widely from 0.5 to 1.5 liters.
Step-by-step cooking process
The pumpkin is peeled and seeds removed, then weighed and cut into pieces. Peel the apples, cut them into halves and cut out the seed pods. The fruits are cut randomly. Fruits with loose pulp do not need to be crushed.
Preparation:
- Place apples and pumpkin in a deep saucepan and add a glass of water.
- Place the dishes on the fire and simmer the fruits under the lid until softened.
- With minimal heat, warm the container for about 30 minutes and then remove from the heat.
- Turn heated fruits into puree using any available method.
- Add water to the fruit mass to the desired consistency, sprinkle with sugar and pour in lemon juice.
- Stir the mixture and bring the mixture to a boil.
The drink is poured into cans while hot, sealed with sterile lids and the canned juice is allowed to cool completely. Juice can only be stored in a place protected from light. Under the influence of sunlight, the composition tends to change color or delaminate.
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.
Preparation:
- We fill the lower compartment with water to the upper mark and send it to the stove;
- We place a device on top into which the drink will be collected and install a sieve;
- Place the chopped pumpkin pulp and dried apricots into a sieve and cover with a lid. Steam over medium heat.
- We immediately place the jars under the hose from which the juice will flow.
We must sterilize containers in the oven, microwave, steam or other convenient way.
- Close the jars immediately and put them in a warm place until they cool.
This juice should be stored in the cellar, or best of all in the refrigerator. This will increase the shelf life of the healthy drink.
How to make pumpkin juice for the winter without a juicer
To prepare a tasty and healthy drink, you do not need to have special kitchen devices. There is a simple method of preparation, which we will now look at.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg pumpkin;
- ¼ lemon;
- 1 orange;
- 150 g sugar.
Preparation
Cut the fruit and remove the peel. Cut into slices of any shape.
Fill the pieces with water and put them on the stove to cook until fully cooked.
Meanwhile, squeeze the juice from the lemon and orange. Try not to get any bones into 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 it. After boiling, cook for another 10 minutes.
All that remains is to pour the drink into sterilized jars and roll it up using a special key.
Wrap the workpiece upside down and leave to cool.
Jars should be stored in a cool place. The juice will not spoil throughout the winter period.
Pumpkin ginger juice
There is no need to store this pumpkin juice for the winter; it is better to drink it immediately after preparation. The drink turns out to have a specific taste, but invigorating and at the same time warming.
Ingredients:
- half a pumpkin;
- 1 apple;
- half a lemon;
- 50 g ginger.
Preparation:
- Peel the pumpkin, remove all seeds, and chop the pulp into small pieces.
- We divide the apple into slices and also remove the seeds from the fruit.
- Cut the lemon half in half again and remove the peel from each slice.
- Peel the ginger root.
- We simply pass all the ingredients through a juicer, and the delicious and healthy drink is ready.
Advice!
If you are preparing this juice for the first time, then the amount of ginger should be halved, as it is very invigorating.
If you constantly preserve juice from pumpkin or other fruits and vegetables for the winter, then it is better for such purposes to buy a juicer that preserves all the important vitamins that pumpkin is rich in.
The drink turns out bright and just as delicious as “finger lickin’ good.” It is very simple to get a healthy drink using such a device, the recipe is not complicated, the main thing is that the juice cannot be boiled, it only needs to be heated to 90 ° C.
Pumpkin juice with citric acid in jars for the winter
There is another simple recipe for making a healthy drink for the winter. We will need no more than half an hour to make the workpiece and leave it to cool.
Ingredients:
- 3 kg peeled pumpkin;
- 2 liters of water;
- 2 tsp citric acid;
- 400 g sugar.
Preparation
Cut the pumpkin pulp into medium pieces, fill with cold water and place 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. Place the pan on the burner. After boiling, remove the foam and cook for about one minute.
Pour the juice into sterile jars, screw on the boiled lids and turn over.
If you are looking after your health, be sure to make this drink, which will strengthen your immune system during the winter.
Pumpkin juice benefits and harms, how to drink?
It’s good that pumpkin juice, the benefits and harms of which have long been reliably studied, is available to everyone. This drink is a source of a whole group of vitamins, including K, E, C and pectins, which are beneficial for the intestines. The juice is a strong cleanser, so people with high acidity and stomach problems should not drink it.
- Pumpkin juice is an excellent preventive remedy for cardiovascular diseases. It perfectly cleanses the liver, strengthens nails and hair, and helps cope with insomnia.
- For health and strengthening purposes, it is recommended to drink no more than 125 ml of juice once a day, 30 minutes before meals. For medicinal purposes, the portion is increased to three times a day and taken for 10 days.
- Pumpkin juice is an excellent cosmetic product, helps against acne and rejuvenates the skin.
Pumpkin juice with sea buckthorn: the best recipe
Thanks to this preparation method, you can 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:
It is better to store jars in the refrigerator. And if there is no space, then put it in the pantry or cellar.
This juice should not be drunk if you have low stomach acidity. And for gastrointestinal diseases, this drink should be completely excluded from your diet. In some cases, an allergic reaction is possible.
If you and your family members have no contraindications, then be sure to roll up a few jars for the winter.
Pumpkin juice: beneficial properties and contraindications
Pumpkin juice contains a huge amount of minerals, trace elements and rare vitamins, including T, D and K. This juice contains potassium, magnesium, calcium and iron. Pectin, which is contained in excess, normalizes metabolism and works as an antioxidant. Polysaccharide helps cleanse the body of toxins and harmful substances, improves blood circulation. This orange miracle contains a record amount of carotene - 5 times more than carrots.
We can confidently say that pumpkin juice has a beneficial effect on the functioning of all our organs and systems. It has a calming effect and promotes wound healing. In addition, this low-calorie product is a good helper for those who want to get rid of extra pounds.
How to drink pumpkin juice? Fresh pumpkin juice is made using a juicer or grated and squeezed through cheesecloth. It is advisable to drink freshly squeezed pumpkin juice on an empty stomach , half an hour before breakfast, 100-150 ml at a time. Thus, you receive a powerful vitamin charge of vigor and well-being. For a full healing effect, as well as weight loss, you need to take the juice three times a day before meals, 20-30 minutes. If you have insomnia, take a glass of juice with a teaspoon of honey. It acts like a pleasant and mild sleeping pill.
- for ulcers and gastritis;
- with diabetes mellitus in severe forms;
- with low acidity and dysfunction of the duodenum.