Apricots! With this one word, you immediately see summer, the sun, delicious juicy fruits and berries! It is very easy to prepare apricots for the winter, there are many ways, each housewife has her favorite preparations. Compotes, preserves, jams, juices - any preparation of apricots turns out to be delicious and uplifting with its sunny color.
I suggest you prepare apricot juice with pulp for the winter using a juicer. The juice is rich and very tasty.
Take ripe apricots and sugar. More water is required.
Wash the apricots, cut in half and remove the pit.
Let's skip the halves of apricots through a juicer, we get a thick juice with pulp.
I got 2.5 cups of juice.
Put the remaining cake in a saucepan, add 2-3 cups of water. The amount of water depends on the properties of the juicer and the juiciness of the apricots.
Boil the squeezes for 5-10 minutes, removing the foam.
We wipe our broth through a sieve so that only the fibers remain.
Pour the squeezed juice into the broth.
Pour sugar to taste: add a little and taste.
Bring the juice to a boil and boil for 1-2 minutes.
Pour apricot juice into sterilized jars, cork with boiled lids and leave to cool under a blanket. For the winter, apricot juice with pulp is best placed in a cool room.
Be sure to try this wonderful drink! Delicate, rich, healthy and beautiful juice - this is how we will keep the taste of summer for the winter.
It is simply impossible to tear yourself away from it!
Prepare for health!
One of the most useful options homemade - apricot juice with pulp. In addition to fiber, which improves the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, and pectin, which helps to remove toxins and toxins from the body, it is a source of fruit acids, vitamins A, K, C, iron, magnesium, and potassium. However, when including juice in your diet, do not forget about some rules:
- juices should not be drunk on an empty stomach - fruit acids will burn the gastric mucosa and increase acidity;
- juices are recommended to be drunk diluted with water in a ratio of 5: 1; for this, filtered or cold boiled water is used;
- do not drink juices at night: the body needs time to process fiber, so it will be problematic to fall asleep;
- when preparing mixtures of juices, consider the combination of ingredients: vegetables and herbs separately from fruits and berries;
- do not sweeten the juices with sugar, if you really want to - add a little honey.
We will tell you how to prepare apricot juice with pulp. To do this, you will need a juicer or food processor.
Ingredients:
- apricots - 1 kg;
- - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- cinnamon - on the tip of a knife (optional);
- drinking water, filtered - 1 glass.
Cooking
Apricots for juice are chosen very ripe, soft, but not damaged. Wash the fruits under running water and gently dry or wait until they dry themselves. We divide each apricot in half and remove the stone, pass the halves of the fruit through a juicer, add water, honey and - if desired - a little cinnamon. Mix well and healthy drink ready. As you can see the recipe apricot juice with pulp is very uncomplicated.
Without juicerHowever, the question often arises: how to prepare apricot juice with pulp at home, if there is no juicer or food processor. The answer is simple: use a meat grinder and a sieve.
Ingredients:
- apricots - 2 kg;
- warm boiled water - 2.5 cups;
- flower honey - 2 tbsp. spoons.
Cooking
We sort through the apricots, cut off the damaged areas, if any, wash thoroughly and remove excess moisture. Next, remove the seeds from the apricots, cut them into slices and pass through a meat grinder. Pour the resulting slurry with warm water (not higher than 50 degrees), stir well and leave for 15-20 minutes. We wipe everything through a sieve, add honey, stir - vitamin juice with pulp is ready.
We close for the winterYou can prepare apricot juice with pulp for the winter - it's also simple.
Ingredients:
Cooking
My apricots, make sure that wrinkled and spoiled fruits do not get on the juice. We separate the seeds and halves of apricots and pass through a meat grinder. We heat the water, add sugar and citric acid, cook, stirring, for 3 minutes after boiling. Pour the syrup into the juice and begin to cook everything together over low heat, stirring so that the fruit particles do not burn. After the juice boils, remove the foam and cook for 10 minutes, then pour into sterilized jars, close and let cool under the covers. Juice is stored in a cool place - cellar, basement, on the balcony.
Apricots are very convenient fruits for preservation. They are dried, frozen, jams and jams are made from ripe fruits, compotes are closed and liqueurs are made. But the most successful way to harvest apricots is to make natural apricot juice for the winter. At home, it is best to cook it through a juicer. The drink is tasty, bright and thick. Surely your loved ones will love it. For juice, use ripe, fleshy apricots.
You will need:
- apricots - 1.5 kg,
- water - 100 ml,
- sugar - 100 grams,
- citric acid - 0.3 teaspoon.
How to make apricot juice with a juicer
Wash and dry apricots.
Divide the fruit in half and remove the pit.
Prepared halves should fit into the juicer receiver. If the apricots turned out to be large, then cut them into 4 parts.
Set the juicer to soft fruit mode. Squeeze out the juice.
Do not throw away the apricot pulp. It will make excellent jam or jam.
Pour the squeezed juice into enamel pan for making juice.
From sugar citric acid and water to boil the syrup.
Pour the syrup into the juice and start heating to a boil. Boil 7 - 10 minutes.
Rinse and sterilize the storage jar in a convenient way. Pour boiling juice into a container.
Roll up the jar tightly, wrap it in a warm towel, turn it over onto the lid and leave for 12 hours to cool.
Ready juice should be stored at room temperature, necessarily in a dark place up to three years.
Making awesome apricot juice for the winter at home is not at all difficult. You can talk endlessly about the beneficial properties of apricots. They soothe nervous system body, expel toxins from it, are a prophylactic against tumors. But perhaps their main purpose is to prevent cardiovascular diseases.
Fruits are useful both raw and processed. Of these, not only juices are prepared for the winter, but also delicious jams, jam, jam. Apricots are dried, frozen and even pickled. They are used as a filling, decorate desserts with them, etc.
It is necessary to prepare apricot juice with pulp only in enameled dishes, since the taste and color of the finished product will turn out to be far from expected in aluminum.
To make apricot juice with pulp at home tasty and fragrant, you need to choose the right fruit. Fruits can be anything: large, small, overripe, unripe, sweet and not very. In any case, the juice will be of high quality. Meanwhile, apricot lovers know that from ripe fruits there will be a sweet drink, and from strong ones - with sourness. Therefore, the ideal juice will be obtained if the bulk is sweet and ripe, and ¼ part is unripe.
Ingredients
Servings: - +
- apricots 5 kg
- granulated sugar 300 gr
- water on request
Calories: 55 kcal
Proteins: 0.5 g
Fats: 0 g
Carbohydrates: 12.7 g
1 hour. 29 min. Video recipe Print
Fruit, wash, remove the stone. Wrinkled, darkened sides are cut off, and wormy apricots are thrown away.
Each half is thrown into an enamel bowl, poured cold water. hot water it is strictly forbidden to pour the fruits, otherwise they will soften. You will need enough water to cover the fruit 2-3 cm higher.
Put on a strong fire and close the lid. Bring the mass to a boil, periodically stirring everything with a long wooden spoon so that the fruits do not burn below. This will form foam. You do not need to remove it, in the process of cooking it will disappear by itself. After boiling, reduce the heat and cook for another 5-7 minutes.
Turn off the fire and wait for the mass to cool. This takes several hours. You can prepare the bulk in the evening and proceed to the next stage of preparation in the morning.
Prepare another enameled container (basin, pan), ladle and colander in the shape of a round basin. A colander is placed on an empty pan, 2-3 scoops of apricot mass are scooped up, poured into a colander.
Homemade apricot juice is boiled for a few more minutes. Now it remains to pour it into prepared hot jars. It is necessary to fill in to the very top, the resulting foam will settle. Roll up tightly with a machine, turn over and wrap with a blanket for pasteurization.
If you strictly adhere to the recipe, you can be sure that apricot juice for the winter at home will be perfectly stored throughout the cold period. Juice jars are kept in cool rooms: basements, cellars, garages, etc.
During the cold season, as a rule, there are not enough vitamins and minerals to strengthen the immune system. Cooking apricot juice for the winter is an affordable option for those who want to get the most nutrients. long heat treatment when cooking apricot jam, it can destroy most of the nutrients, so making nutritious juice can be called the best option. It is enough to know only the basic nuances and features of storage.
The best way to prepare such a drink is by juicer, but other methods are also used. In this case, the main thing is to comply phased technology manufacturing and remember about the sterilization of dishes. The fruits of the apricot tree can be combined with various other fruits.
The best option would be to use peaches, apples and pears for juicing. However, it is not recommended to add blackberries, since not everyone may like the color of the resulting liquid.
It is also not superfluous to add vanilla or cinnamon to give aroma and rich taste. For this purpose, it is advisable to purchase natural pods.
How to choose apricots for juice
Fruits for the future drink should be selected with great care. Apricots should not have dark or brown spots, damage and punctures.
On a note! Fruits with a smooth surface are more juicy.
It is not recommended to buy overripe fruits. In the event that the purchased apricots turned out to be too sweet and do not contain sourness at all, you can add lemon juice when re-brewing apricot drink.
Recipes for making apricot juice at home
Fragrant drink rich in vitamins and useful material can be prepared in several ways. So, a person can choose for himself the most convenient option in the manufacture of a remedy against seasonal beriberi.
Juice with pulp
It is easy to prepare juice with pulp and without special devices. All you need for this is:
- suitable container;
- colander;
- water;
- arbitrary amount of apricot;
- sugar, if required.
Such a drink is prepared as follows:
- Rinse apricots, disassemble into halves. Drying of the fruit is not required, and the seeds can be thrown away immediately.
- An enameled container in which the fruits should be placed is ideal.
- Pour apricots with water so that they are completely covered with liquid, that is, at the same level. Turn on the big fire.
- Then a foam will appear, which must be removed.
- Fruit should be cooked until soft. If the apricots begin to disintegrate, the fire can be turned off. Then the juice should be cooled.
- The compote must be filtered, and the boiled fruits should be wiped well and the skins removed.
- The pureed mixture should be combined with a decoction and turn on the fire. Here, if desired, sugar and other additives are added.
- The juice should boil for 5 minutes. Then the drink is poured into containers.
With a juicer
This method is considered the simplest. For cooking, you will need the following list of ingredients:
- about 6 kilograms of ripe fruits;
- 200-250 grams of sugar.
A number of steps must be taken:
- Rinse the fruit, remove the seeds, cut into halves. Place in juicer.
- From an apricot, as a rule, there is a lot of cake left. This residue should be evaluated: if there is a lot of cake and it is wet, then it can be re-passed through the device.
- Pour the resulting juice into a container, add sugar and put on fire. Let it boil for no more than three minutes, remove the foam.
- Pour the broth and cork.
Apricot juice in a juicer
It is also possible to prepare nectar using a special device. You can take any amount of ripe fruit and a few tablespoons of sugar. Prepare like this:
- Fill the lower tier with water (the amount of liquid is prescribed in the instructions).
- Peeled apricots are placed on the topmost compartment of the juicer. It is recommended to sprinkle fruit with sugar for better juice extraction.
- Turn on the fire, cook for about 50 minutes.
- Then you should release the tube and get apricot juice.
How to make with blender
If there is nothing to squeeze ripe fruits, you can use an immersion blender. To do this, take the following composition of ingredients:
- 2-3 kilograms of apricot;
- liter of water;
- sugar at will.
Cooking:
- Place the apricots in boiling water for half a minute, and then immediately transfer to cold water. This is necessary for skin cleansing.
- In a blender, prepare fruit puree.
- Combine water, sugar and whipped fruits in a container. Boil for a few minutes and then pour into a suitable container.
Apple-orange juice for the winter
Apples and oranges add a slightly sour and pleasant taste to the drink. You can prepare such juice in any way possible. You will need to take:
- 3-4 kilograms of apples;
- 5 kilograms of apricot;
- 600 grams of sugar;
- water.
Cooking:
- Put the water on a slow fire, add sugar. While the water is heating, pass the peeled fruit through the juicer.
- Add squeezed juice in portions to a container with liquid.
- Wait until it boils and leave to cook for 5 minutes. Foam is removed periodically.
- Pour the mixture into a bowl and seal.
Storage Features
Preservation of an apricot drink can be done in ordinary containers and bottles, and closed with metal lids with an elastic band. So it will be stored throughout the winter. However, one should not forget that before conservation, thorough sterilization of all dishes that will be involved in the process is required.
Store in a cool place: cellar, balcony or refrigerator. The main condition is not to place near batteries or other heating devices.
