The Pineapple Juice Recipe makes the sweet and tangy flavored juice from fresh pineapple with the minor zest of spice powders. Lot of people prefer to start their morning with the prolific pineapple juice. Apart from making your breakfast healthy, it also provides shelter from the scorching sun. The sweet to the taste and lavish looking juice should surely not be a skip, especially in the sunny days!
Pineapple Juice
- Author: Karishma Shah
- Recipe Category: Drinks and Juices
- Cuisine: Refreshers
Description: The pineapple juice recipe is made from fresh pineapples. It is quick to prepare with cold water and sugar. Few handful of ingredients makes reviving juice.
“There is no joy like the joy of Juice!”
Pineapple Juice Recipe Ingredients:
- Fresh Pineapple – 3 cups
- Sugar – 3 tbsp.
- Cumin Powder – ¼ tsp.
- Rock Salt – ¼ tsp.
- Black pepper – ¼ tsp.
- Filtered Water – 1 ¼ cups
- Fresh Mint Leaves – ¼ cup
- Ice Cubes – ½ cup (8 ice cubes)
Note: Use chilled water for the best results. You can use tinned pineapples as well if the fresh are not available.
Pineapple Juice Recipe Steps:
Pre-Preparation:
- Wash, Rinse, and Clean the Pineapple. You can either peel off their skin and chop or chop them first and then peel off. Slice them into the shape of cubes.
- Pineapple Puree:
- In a blender, add the chopped pineapple and blend on medium speed till the smooth puree is formed.
- You may add water is required.
- Make sure there is no chunk of pineapple in the puree.
- Strain the puree in a large bowl, and line it up with a strainer of equal size.
- Pour the pineapple puree from the blender to the bowl through this strainer over it.
Note: Chop the pineapple with a large knife in small pieces.
Preparation:
- Again take the blender jar, add the sugar along with the cold water.
- Also, add pieces of ice cubes.
- Now transfer the pineapple puree to the blender.
- Add a pinch of rock salt and black pepper powder.
- Blend until the mixture achieves smooth texture with a thin consistency.
- Again strain into a bowl and pour the pineapple juice from the blender to the bowl through it.
- Press it with the spatula to get the maximum.
- Stir the juice with a spoon to collect the smooth juice.
- If you want colder juice, then add ¼ cup chilled water and stir.
- The more water you add, the thinner the pineapple juice becomes.
- In a cocktail shaker, shake the juice with sugar.
- Shake well for some time.
- Pour the juice in glasses topped with ice cubes.
- Season with mint leaves.
- Sprinkle cumin powder and regular salt over the juice.
- Stir it again with a spoon so that spices mix in properly.
And the pleasurable Pineapple Juice is ready to be served!
Note: If you do not have a large blender, then use the small blender. Blend chopped pineapples in batches.
Additional Information:
- Calories: 134 calories
- Total Time: PT14M
- Serves: 2
- Date Published: 2016-09-04
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The nutritional value of the pineapple juice is so high that one simply cannot avoid talking about it. It has been crowned with the tag of the richest source of nutrients in the category of juices. It contains vitamin C, minerals, fibers and enzymes in high proportion. Its health benefits are so popular that everyone prefers to drink it after the heavy workout as it helps in regaining the lost energy and provides instant refreshment.
There is no taste variation whether you use frozen or fresh pineapples but it is always preferred to pluck the fresh fruits for the juices. If you use the chilled pineapple, then it will only make the juice more chilled. Most important ingredient is the fresh, juicy and ripe pineapple. Rest of the handful items used are handy and available in everyone’s kitchen. The use spices like black pepper, rock salt or cumin powder is optional. They just enhance the flavors of the pineapple juice.
The key to successfully prepare this pineapple juice lies in the correct selection of pineapple. The ripe the pineapple, the sweeter will be the juice. It is advisable to select the golden skinned pineapple and drop picking the green colored one. Making pineapple is really quick and simple but the expertise is required to chop the pineapple and peeling their skin. All other instructions for the making the recipe of pineapple juice at home are easy. Try now and enjoy!
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Remarks:
- The Pineapple Juice recipe requires 15 minutes to make.
- Adding the excess water makes the juice thin. If you prefer to have thick juice then do not use water.
- You can also use natural sweetener if the pineapple is not too sweet. On the contrary, you may skip using sugar if the pineapples are already sweet.
- We chop the small pieces of pineapple to grind all of them in one go. The small sizes increase the blending speed.
- If you have a problem with excess cold, then balance proportion between chilled water and ice-cubes.
- If the blender is not available, do not panic, use the juicer.
Garnishing:
The pineapple juice is a revitalizing refresher when served with ice cubes. You may garnish the glass of juice with:
- Mint Leaves
- Pineapple Slices
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