Tomato juice at home from tomatoes

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Tomatoes for juice should be chosen ripe, it is better if the variety is juicy.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash tomatoes, cut into four parts. Cut out the peduncle and damaged places. I will drive tomatoes through a new generation juicer, so there is no need to remove the skin, the juice will come out very clean. If you use a meat grinder, blender or old juicers, you need to remove the skin from the tomato. To do this, cut the top of the tomato with a cross, put the fruit in boiling water in a colander for a minute and immediately move it to cold water. The skin will easily separate

3. Step 3:

   

   Pass the prepared tomatoes through a juicer or other chopping device and squeeze out the juice.

4. Step 4:

   

   From 1.5 kg of juicy tomatoes, I got 1 liter of raw juice. The amount of juice may vary slightly, it all depends on the tomatoes themselves. From 1 liter of raw, ready-made juice, almost 800 ml turned out.

6. Step 5:

   

   Pour the raw juice into a spacious container, as foam will rise when boiling. Start heating on low heat, then increase to medium -high and bring to a boil. At the moment of boiling, reduce the heat to the minimum. Cook stirring constantly so that the juice warms up evenly and does not burn.

7. Step 6:

   

   The foam will gradually settle and disappear.

8. Step 7:

   

   Add salt and sugar to taste in almost pure, boiled juice, stir and let it boil for 5 minutes. Add or not sugar, at your discretion, many people like only salt. But a small amount of sugar balances the taste of sour juice, for the sake of experiment, you can try it in a glass, if you like it, you can cook the whole volume like that. But it's definitely better to add pepper when serving, this is purely for an amateur, children refuse to drink with pepper, without salt at all, too.

9. Step 8:

   

   Then pour into a jar and let cool without covering, put in the refrigerator. The cooled juice is pleasant to drink, many people like to add pepper. Shake before use. Hot juice can be spun for the winter. Then pour into sterilized jars, immediately tighten with a sterile lid, turn over and leave to cool, covering with a fur coat". Put away for storage in a dark, cool place. It costs well until summer, but they drink quickly, it is not necessary to additionally sterilize.