Unpretentious and at the same time so usefula vegetable, like a pumpkin, earned the honorary title of the king of the garden. And this is due not only to the simplicity of its cultivation, but also the versatility of use, and the rich vitamin composition.
By its taste, the pumpkin is beautifulis combined with the majority of vegetables, therefore the spectrum of its use in culinary recipes is wide enough: from the first dishes to dessert. At the same time, it can be boiled, fried, baked, jam-making, etc. However, pumpkin juice, which contains all useful ingredients, is considered the most useful way of eating pumpkin. At the same time to make pumpkin juice at home is not at all difficult.
Pumpkin fresh
1 Option
Peeled and sliced pumpkin throughjuicer, in the finished fresh, add a spoonful of lemon juice and honey. You can also make a vitamin cocktail, taking 250 g of pulp pulp, 1 large red apple and 100 g of purified carrots. All to pass through the juicer and, adding juice of a lemon and honey, to use within a half an hour, - during this period all useful substances in a maximum quantity are kept.
Option 2
This is an old grandmother's way of how from a pumpkinto make juice. Simply rub the flesh of the pumpkin and, if desired, other vegetables and fruits on a fine grater, and squeeze the juice through several layers of gauze. This method is good when introducing the first feeding to babies, when the juice needs a minimum amount.
Pumpkin juice for the winter
The easiest way, of course, is to make pumpkin juice inbut if it does not, then this is not an excuse to deny yourself the pleasure of drinking this drink in winter and spring. Just have to work a little more, nothing impossible does not exist.
You can prepare pumpkin juice at home in several other ways:
1.From the peeled and chopped pulp pulp by means of a juicer, we get juice, which we place in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Then add sugar at the rate of 100 g per 1 liter of juice obtained and a third of a teaspoon of citric acid for the same volume. We boil for another 5 minutes and pour into prepared sterile jars, which are clogged and turned over, covered with something warm. Cooled cans can be lowered into a cellar or stored in a pantry.
2.1 kg of pumpkin pulp should be rubbed with a grater and pour boiling sugar syrup, prepared from 2 liters of water and a glass of sugar. All this is boiled for 15 minutes and then cooled. Then wipe the boiled pulp through a very fine sieve and, adding fresh from 1 lemon, boil again for 15 minutes, after which they pour the prepared juice into sterile jars and roll up. But this is the most time-consuming method, allowing you to make pumpkin juice at home.
Pumpkin juice is very good for preventioncatarrhal and infectious diseases and enhance immunity. It is enough just to drink half a cup of such fresh per day to children and a glass of adults, so that many ailments are bypassed, especially since pumpkin juice at home is not so difficult cook, especially with the availability of kitchen appliances.
