How to squeeze pomegranate juice at home? Presses for grenades

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Pomegranate juice - buy in the store or squeeze it yourself? What's better? Many of us will take the quick or easy option of going shopping. But a more he althy and tasty juice is obtained if it is squeezed out of a whole ripe fruit. So here are our tips on how to squeeze the juice out of a pomegranate.

Handy tools

What tools are needed, and how to squeeze the juice out of a pomegranate with them? Let's figure it out.

A sharp small knife - to cut the thick skin at the place of the dried inflorescence.

A container with water - it is easy to separate the pomegranate into parts in it, while the seeds do not fly in all directions and the juice does not splash all over the kitchen.

Plastic bag - it's better to take a few special ones for freezing. They are dense in structure and will not tear.

Rolling pin or hammer - to crush seeds with stones for better juice yield.

Dense layer of clean gauze - to strain the resulting juice from traces of stones, excess pulp and traces of peel.

Pitcher or glass jar - for storing juice. Do not use plasticbottles or other containers made of this material. The fact is that pomegranate juice is a kind of acid that can slightly corrode thin plastic. It may not be visible to the naked eye, but the juice will not be as useful as it was originally.

Which pomegranate is ripe?

Homemade pomegranate juice will be the most delicious if you use a benign ripe pomegranate to make juice. What should not be on the fruit:

• rot or its smell (both inside and outside the fruit);
• extensive dark brown spots on the peel;
• cracks, dents and bruises on the peel;
• traces of frostbite.

How to choose a ripe pomegranate? It's best to choose the right pomegranate by looking at the inside of it, but how do you do that? Some vendors at their fruit stand display one of the species they sell with a cut. Such a demonstration helps buyers navigate the wide variety of varieties. This is especially important in spontaneous fruit and vegetable markets.

Outside, a ripe fruit of saturated red color with small patches of brown spots, each of which does not exceed 2-5 mm. Inside the fruit are bright red seeds with a slightly whitish base.

So we learned how to choose a ripe pomegranate. It's not as difficult as many people think.

Squeeze pomegranate juice by hand - method 1

How to make pomegranate juice without a juicer? Of course, manually. Having chosen the right ripe fruit, follow the step-by-step instructions:

• wash fruit under running hot water- so the skin becomes not only clean, but soft and pliable for cutting;
• cut off the top of the fruit with a knife and make cruciform cuts, as if drawing peculiar petals on a pomegranate with a knife;
• lower the fruit into a large bowl of water and with strong pressure on it, separate the pomegranate into parts, now try to separate as many seeds as possible;
• dry the pieces a little and remove the separated seeds from the water, put them in two layers of a plastic bag - try not to put large pieces of leather in the bag, they will prevent the juice from squeezing;
• tie up the bag so that the juice does not leak out;
• put the bag on a cutting board (you can do without it) and roll it with a rolling pin or tap with a kitchen mallet to beat the meat;
• then make a small hole at the bottom of the bag with a knife or scissors and direct it into a container for collecting juice, you can immediately build a gauze filter on a jug or jar;
• when the juice flows out, it can be eaten or made into drinks and smoothies.

For a more effective result, choose bags with a special zipper, small in volume.

Second way to manually squeeze pomegranate juice

How to squeeze juice from a pomegranate in a different way - without bags? It will be a little longer than in the first method. Below is the instruction:

• dip a well-washed pomegranate into an enamel bowl or a pot of boiling water;
• after a few minutes, carefully drain the water andpull out the pomegranate;
• make cuts on the fruit and remove the top skin;
• manually pull out all the juicy red seeds;
• when all the seeds have been collected, use a pestle or regular mashed potato masher to crush them;
• put the pulp along with the juice in cheesecloth, which you put in a bowl or cup;
• collect gauze in a bag and press with your hands to let the juice flow out.

Third method of squeezing pomegranate juice

Pomegranate juice at home can be obtained in the third way:

• as in the first recipe, hold the pomegranate in hot water;
• wrap the fruit with cloth;
• gently beat the fruit itself with a hammer or rolling pin, laying the pomegranate on the table;
• then make a hole in the fruit and squeeze out the juice with your hands, pressing on the fruit.

But these methods are good when a little fresh pomegranate juice is needed for culinary purposes. But what if this "ruby juice" is needed in large quantities? For example, for preparations for the winter or even sales.

Get juice with a meat grinder

Pomegranate juice can be squeezed out with a manual or electric (powerful) meat grinder. If your meat grinder can grind small bones from meat, then it will also cope with pomegranate.

In this case, peel all the seeds from the skin and twist them through a meat grinder. Then transfer the resulting mass into a fabric bag, dense in structure. Squeeze juice out of it by hand. Since the pomace from the stones is not so juicy, this processwill not be difficult, but long in time.

Will a juicer help?

How to squeeze juice from a pomegranate in a juicer? First you have to pull out all the seeds from the fruit. This process is time-consuming and time-consuming, but without it, juice cannot be obtained through an ordinary juicer. Get rid of not only thick skin, but also thin white partitions. So, the algorithm of actions:

• Pomegranate seeds in portions shift into a funnel for fruit pulp - do not overload;
• substitute a suitable container under the juice outlet;
• prepare a cup for cake;
• turn on the juicer;
• squeeze out the juice gradually and add seeds to the funnel.

Among all models of aggregates, choose more powerful ones that can squeeze out cake with a large number of seeds. A low-powered juicer will simply not cope and will break down forever.

Press

There are specialized pomegranate presses that are adapted to the tough texture of these fruits. But still, even such machines will have problems with unripe fruits.

The press itself is an inverted iron funnel with a hole at the bottom, a stand for a juice container, a squeeze component that squeezes the juice out of the fruit, and a lever that drives the entire structure.

How the press works:

• ripe and well washed, dried pomegranates are cut in half;
• one half is placed on an inverted funnel cutdown;
• lower the lever, and with it the release component is lowered;
• half of the pomegranate turns out, and the juice passes through the filter into the substituted container.

Pomegranate presses can be without filter. Then small parts of the seeds and skins get into the resulting juice. In this case, you will need to additionally strain the juice before using or drinking.

It is very important that such specialized presses can be useful not only for pomegranate juice, but also for any citrus.

Now you know how to quickly squeeze the juice out of a pomegranate.

How to drink pomegranate juice?

Natural pomegranate juice is concentrated and rather sour in taste. Eating it in this form may not be beneficial for the digestive system. So, we figured out how to squeeze the juice from a pomegranate, now let's see how best to drink it.

0.3 boiled chilled water is added to 1 liter of juice. You can sweeten the drink with sugar, fructose, natural flower honey or mashed dried fruits.

Add juice of other fruits, berries or even vegetables to pomegranate juice according to your taste:

• apple;
• plum;
• strawberry;
• currant;
• cabbage;
• pumpkin;
• beetroot.

Suitable for this purpose and compote.

Additionally, they also use something from a variety of spices orcondiments:

• nutmeg;
• ground cinnamon;
• almonds;
• citrus zest;
• carnation;
• ground pepper (red, pink or black).

Now you know how to make pomegranate juice. Bon appetit and good he alth to you!