Cold-press juice is an extremely delicious way to get in your daily serving of veggies and fruits. While this can easily be done through the purchasing of cold-press juice from stores, it can be a bit costly in the long term. Luckily, cold-press juicing at home is much easier than you may think, juicer or no juicer. In this guide, we will walk you through how to make your own cold-pressed juice, complete with tips and tricks on getting the best results.
How to Make Cold-Pressed Juice Without a Juicer?
No juicer? Not a problem! You can prepare delicious, healthful cold-pressed juice at home using only a blender and a few simple tools.
Step 1: Prepare Your Ingredients
First, select your favorite fruits and veggies. Some of the most popular are apples, carrots, beets, green leafy vegetables, and ginger. Wash the produce. Then cut them all into around 1/2 to 1 inch pieces. This will help the blender break up the fragments more readily.
Step 2: Blend the Ingredients
Add the chopped produce in a food processor. Puree leaves and fruit with 1/2 to 1 cup of water, depending on quantity used. Blend until smooth and one gets a consistency near to a smoothie but still a little thick.
Step 3: Juice Strain
Since it is already fully mixed, you could strain the juice out of its solid condition. This is totally your choice. Strain juice through a fine mesh strainer lined with cheesecloth or a clean piece of muslin. Make the mixture combined in a sieve; push down with the back of a spoon so all the juice comes out from it. Now, the pulp can either be discarded or added to another recipe such as a smoothie or dessert.
If you squeezed out more juice than you can drink now, simply save it in an airtight container in your refrigerator up to 24 hours.
How to Make Cold-Pressed Juice With a Juicer?
The process is even faster if you already have a juicer. For the best, you will want a masticating juicer that does not run too hard and hot.
Step 1: Choose and Prepare Your Produce
Select the foods needed for making the juice. Even though most masticating juicer models can process the foods just fine, it might still be ideal to chop the food into pieces for easier insertion of the large produce, like whole apples or cucumbers, into the feed chute of the juicer. Additionally, any hard produce with an inedible skin, such as pineapples or citrus fruits, should most likely be peeled to prevent ruining the juicer.
Step 2: Juice the Produce
Refer to the manufacturing manual for your specific juicer to know exactly how to activate the machine and whatnot, then one by one start pushing the produce down into the hopper. The machine will work and juice at a very slow speed, but so very healthily; juice simply pours into a container at the end.
Step 3: Collect and Serve the Juice
Once all the produce is done juicing, quickly stir the juice to mix the flavors and then pour into a glass. If you are not going to drink it within a few minutes, store the juice in the fridge in an airtight container. The extracted juice will be cold-pressed and can be stored for 72 hours.
Juicing at home is easy and definitely a rewarding process to get fresh juices with all their nutrients but without their high cost through store-bought options. Delicious, healthful juices can be made from either a blender or juicer. So go ahead, gather your favorite fruits and veggies, and let the juicing begin!