Do-it-yourself blanks, such as homemade compotes, juices, are not only pleasant drinks for families and guests, but also a storehouse of vitamins, so necessary in the winter. Breakfast and dinner with a glass of juice will help you maintain immunity, replenishing your body with delicious vitamins.
Peaches are one of the best fruits for conservation. They are universal, they make delicious jam, mouth-watering jam, compote and juice. We know several ways to make peach juice, present the simplest and most delicious recipes for making juice at home.
Next we will get to know them.
Useful properties of peaches
Before making juice, let's find out more about these juicy, sweet, liquid fruits. Peaches are unusually tasty and healthy, they are consumed both fresh and canned. With peaches, incredibly tasty jams, preserves, they add an incomparable delicate taste and delicate aroma to dessert.
But in addition to their taste, the fruits have qualities that are beneficial to our body.
First of all, peaches contain a minimal amount of calories, so if you are watching your figure or are overweight - do not worry, peaches will not do any harm. On the contrary, nutritionists recommend eating them in moderation to those who follow a diet or seek to throw off a couple of extra pounds.
Eat a few peaches per day, they help break down fats, enrich the body with useful vitamin compounds and minerals.
Did you know that peach and peach juice have one of the most beneficial effects - they remove toxins and toxins from the body, cleanse the kidneys, remove salts and prevent the formation of stones. These fruits help cope with a hangover, so eat a couple if your head hurts and is nauseous after a party.
Contraindications
But peaches have a flip side of the coin. These fruits contain too much sugar; they should not be eaten categorically by people with diabetes.
Although there is a peach diet, you should still not abuse fruit in obesity.
Also be careful if you suffer from allergies, particles of peach dust on the skin of the fetus can provoke an undesirable reaction.
Peach juice
Let us return to the preparation of juice, recipes of darkness, but the basics are the same for everyone. Having set the goal to prepare peach juice for the winter, do not forget to thoroughly wash the fruits, peel and remove the seeds. Carefully choose fruits in juice and other seals, a spoiled peach can ruin the entire batch.
Pour juice in various containers, the main thing is sterilization. The whole process should be sterile, without getting into the juice and jars of excess particles. Be sure to tie your hair before cooking.
After you close the juice, turn it downside down, set it on a flat surface and cover it with a blanket or warm blanket. Prepare all materials in advance.
You need to monitor the juice for another 10 days so that the lids do not swell, and the juice inside does not ferment.
Fruit selection and preparation
To prepare high-quality peach juice for the winter, you need to wisely approach the selection and preparation of raw materials. So, for example, a good peach will have a ripe appearance and soft texture, a pleasant sweet smell, while a spoiled fruit will be sour or bitter.
Regardless of which grade you buy, peaches should have a smooth skin without technical damage, traces of impact and stains.
Avoid solid fruits, this indicates their ripeness, they will not be of any use. But too ripe fruit is not very good, it can quickly deteriorate and spoil the entire batch of juice.
When starting to process and prepare peaches (and other fruits that you want to add to juice), wash the fruits thoroughly under running water. Take out the seeds, cutting the fruit in half, so it is easiest to extract.
Juice Juicer
This is a classic peach juice recipe. To prepare it you will need:
- 8 kg of peaches;
- half a glass of sugar.
Sugar really needs a little, since peaches are very sweet on their own. You can add a little more to add sweets, but by no means less. Sugar-free juice is very poorly stored.
Prepared fruits, washed and pitted, without peel, cut into small pieces and pass through a juicer. Pour juice into a large saucepan and put on medium heat, let it boil. Watch the drink, stir it periodically so as not to burn the flesh, remove the foam that appears on top.
When it boils, add sugar and mix thoroughly until smooth. The juice must be boiled again so that the sugar is completely dissolved in it.
After boiling, cover the juice loosely and cook for another 10 minutes at low heat. Do not forget to interfere with it, make sure that the sugar is dissolved, and not sank to the bottom of a large pan.
Next, pour the juice into jars and bottles previously sterilized, roll up the lids and place as described above. Watch the banks and after 10 days hide in a cool place, best in the cellar.
Pulp juice
Juice with pulp is especially popular, to cook such, we need not so much fruit, but a lot of water. The juice is light, pleasant, moderately sweet, velvet pulp only complements the incredible taste of a soft drink.
To make such juice, take:
- 5 kg of peaches;
- 5 l of water;
- 500 g of sugar.
Rinse and peel the fruits thoroughly, peel the peaches.
To make the juice with pulp, instead of a juicer, we will use a meat grinder. Cut peaches and pass through it to make a thick puree.
Pour sugar into water and mix until dissolved, boil the syrup and let it boil a little over minimal heat, 10 minutes are enough. It is not necessary to stir, only if the sugar has not dissolved and settles to the bottom.
Combine the syrup with mashed potatoes, mix thoroughly and bring to a boil.
Pour hot juice into sterile cans and cover with tin lids.
Apple peach
Such juice is a storehouse of vitamins, a successful combination of two very useful fruits and the most popular for preservation. The acidity of the apple and the sweetness of the peach are an incredible combination, especially if you make a drink of them at home. To make apple and peach juice you will need:
- 5 kg of peaches;
- 3 kg of apples;
- 70 g of sugar.
Rinse the fruits thoroughly, peel them and remove the seeds, the core for apples. Cut the fruit into large pieces and pass through a meat grinder, blender or juicer.
Mix the juice and pour into one large saucepan, put on medium heat and bring to a boil. As in the previous recipe, it is extremely important to ensure that the pulp does not burn, so stir the juice periodically.
When it boils, add sugar, mix everything thoroughly together and boil for another 7-10 minutes over low heat. Keep an eye on the juice, remove the froth and knead the sugar so that it does not stay at the bottom. Sugar is an important ingredient, it is a juice preservative, storage guarantee. While the drink is brewing, begin to sterilize the cans.
Carefully pour the finished juice and roll it up, put the lids down and cover it with a warm blanket. After a couple of days, the blanket can be removed, but at least a week more you need to monitor the quality of seaming.
It turns out incredibly tasty juice with spicy sourness from apples.
"Sex on the beach"
An incredibly delicious cocktail with peach juice will be an excellent cold drink in the heat. To make a non-alcoholic cocktail, you will need:
- 100 ml of peach juice;
- 100 ml of orange juice;
- half lime;
- ice.
Fill the shaker with ice half, pour peach and orange juices, shake. Squeeze half of the fresh lime into the shaker, shake again. Pour juice into a glass filled with ice, garnish with a slice of lime, strawberries. Sprinkle a cocktail of orange zest for a pungent odor.
Secrets of successful juice preparation
To make the juice tasty at home, to be stored for a long time, it is necessary not only to strictly follow the described recipe, but also to know a couple of subtleties that will be useful in cooking.
- Do not wash peaches with hot water.
- To remove the peel faster, dip the fruits in boiling water for a few seconds. When they cool, cleaning will go much faster.
- If you use peaches with a peel, get rid of the gun, be careful in the process.
- Pre-treat lids for preservation so that they are dry by the time the jars are closed.
- Sterilization of containers and lids is a mandatory process, but do not forget to inspect cans for cracks, chips or unwashed dirt. Rinse the cans thoroughly.
Storage
When preparing the juice, remember about sealing, so that it is stored all winter, you must be extremely careful both in preparation and in storage. To keep your peach juice well at home, look for a cool, dark room.
It is not recommended to store the drink for more than a year. Although under good conditions, juice can be stored for 2-3 years in a well-equipped cellar.
Check the juice cans, periodically look at the lids: if they are swollen, then the fermentation process has begun, your drink has deteriorated. Perhaps this is due to sterilization, shelf life or quality of the raw materials.
Canned juice must be drunk during the day so that it does not deteriorate and does not lose all its properties while in the refrigerator.
That's just how you can prepare peach juice for the winter at home. Delicious juicy fruits, incredibly healthy - will complement your table all winter, maintain immunity, replenish your body with the necessary vitamins. Drink juice, make cocktails with peach juice all winter. Spend a few hours to cook it and delight yourself in cold weather with a summer sweet taste.