Refreshing Homemade Strawberry Juice

Super vitamin lighting drink is simply irreplaceable in the summer heat! To be honest, I’ve only tried store-bought cranberry juice before, but I’ve never made it myself. But now itʼs strawberry season — and I thought, "Why not make this amazing drink myself?" No sooner said than done! It turned out simply amazing — everyone, without exception, loved it! And it is prepared very, very simply...
cook time: 20 min
Liam Carson
Refreshing Homemade Strawberry Juice

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

56
Calories
14g
Carbs

Ingredients (4 portions)

Basic:

Sugar 70 g
Water 200 ml
Strawberry (or any other berries) 500 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
Thatʼs all the necessary ingredients for the fruit drink. Now is the season for fresh strawberries, but you can also use frozen berries, just increase the amount of sugar a little — for some reason frozen berries are more sour than fresh ones

Step 2

Step 2
Wash and sort the strawberries, remove the stems

Step 3

Step 3
At this stage there are several options — squeeze out the juice using a juicer or wipe with a blender and squeeze the juice through a sieve or cheesecloth

Step 4

Step 4
I used a blender

Step 5

Step 5
I squeezed out the juice through cheesecloth. To be honest, this process took me longer than I would have liked, because the juice did not want to pass through the holes in the gauze. I think it would be faster through a sieve, but with a juicer it’s a blast...

Step 6

Step 6
Place the pulp in a saucepan

Step 7

Step 7
And we put the juice in the refrigerator — firstly, it will cool down, and secondly, all the vitamins that the berries are so rich in will be preserved

Step 8

Step 8
Add sugar and water to the pan

Step 9

Step 9
Place on the stove and bring to a boil, simmer for 1-2 minutes until the sugar dissolves.

Step 10

Step 10
Strain the syrup through cheesecloth to avoid any pits.

Step 11

Step 11
Cool the resulting strawberry syrup

Step 12

Step 12
Mix with strawberry juice

Step 13

Step 13
Our vitamin juice is ready

Step 14

Step 14
Serve with ice

Step 15

Step 15
Mmmmmm... Much tastier than store bought!

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