Everyone has long known about the beneficial properties of pumpkin. A drink made with your own hands from a miraculous pumpkin and fragrant orange will give you not only health, but also great pleasure.
It is necessary
- - raw pumpkin - 1-1, 3 kg;
- - orange - 1 pc.;
- - granulated sugar - to taste;
- - salt - 1 pinch;
- - citric acid or lemon juice.
Instructions
Step 1
Rinse the pumpkin under running water. Peel the vegetable and cut into medium sized pieces. Wash the orange, peel it, chop it. Combine pieces of vegetable and fruit together, place in a convenient container. A medium sized saucepan will do. Pour into a pot of drinking water products. The liquid should not rise above the middle of the filled food.
Step 2
Set the pot with pumpkin and orange over medium heat and bring the contents to a boil. Reduce heat to minimum. Next, you need to cook the vegetable cubes until soft.
Step 3
Process the finished hot composition with a blender, you need to get mashed potatoes. Cover the pot with a tea towel to avoid splashing the hot puree while the blender is running.
Step 4
The resulting puree must be diluted with drinking water, adjust the density yourself. Add salt, citric acid to the prepared drink, mix. Granulated sugar must be added to taste. It is important to remember that a cooled drink will become somewhat richer than a hot one.
Step 5
It remains only to heat the mixture to a boil, and completely dissolve the granulated sugar in it. This sweet and sour fortified drink will certainly appeal to pumpkin lovers.