Pumpkin is a very nutritious vegetable. Pumpkin juice helps to strengthen the immune system, saturates the body with useful substances. You can make excellent pumpkin juice without a juicer.
- Peel the pumpkin, cut into pieces, put in a saucepan. For preparing a drink, the vegetable is suitable both fresh and frozen.
- Pour some water into a saucepan and put it on the stove. The vegetable will need to be slightly weary over moderate heat. Cook the pieces until they soften.
- Then grind the pumpkin with a blender. If there is no blender, you can thoroughly knead the tired pumpkin with a crush.
- Add citric acid, granulated sugar to taste. Instead of acid, you can pour in freshly squeezed citrus juice: lemon or orange. We mix all the ingredients well.
- Dilute the resulting thick puree with water to the desired consistency. Pumpkin juice is ready.
The drink with delicate pulp is very pleasant to the taste. For storage for a long time, we boil the juice, pour it into sterilized jars, roll them up.
Although pumpkin has a lot of medicinal properties, it should be noted that the sweet vegetable has contraindications. Pumpkin is not recommended to be eaten if there are complex forms of diabetes mellitus, it is also very careful with stomach ulcers, diseases of the duodenum, gastritis with low acidity.
If the above diseases do not bother you, you can safely enjoy the delicate and nutritious juice. The vegetable will have a beneficial effect on the health of the body.
