Gac is a type of fruit that contains many nutrients, especially rich in vitamin A which is good for your eye health. Let’s get cooking with Điện máy XANH to make a delicious glass of fresh gac juice and add more nutrition to your body!
1. Gac Juice
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Preparation
10 minutes
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Cooking
15 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Gac Juice Serves 3 people
Gac 1 fruit Water 1 liter Sugar/salt A little
How to Make Gac Juice
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Strain the gac flesh
You cut the gac fruit in half, then put the pulp and seeds into a sieve, and then use a spoon to stir and press hard to strain the gac flesh, discarding the black seeds.
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Blend the gac
After straining the gac pulp, you put the red gac flesh along with a bit of yellow gac flesh (the flesh next to the skin) into a blender, cover it and blend the gac until smooth for 1 – 2 minutes.
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Cook the gac water
After blending the gac flesh, you put it into a pot, add 1 liter of water, stir evenly and cook over medium heat.
When the gac water simmers gently, you add 4 teaspoons of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, stir until dissolved, then turn off the heat. At this point, you strain the cooked gac water through a sieve again to remove all the small residue and let it cool down to complete.
Tip: If you like the natural sweetness of the gac juice, you can skip adding sugar or other flavoring substances.
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Final Product
Nourishing gac juice with a mild sweet taste that’s easy to drink and the characteristic aroma from gac fruit. You can add a slice of lemon to the glass of gac juice as well as a bit of ice cubes to enhance the flavor; you will definitely fall in love with this drink!
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2. Gac Passion Fruit Juice
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Preparation
10 minutes
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Processing
15 minutes
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Difficulty Level
Easy
Ingredients for Gac Passion Fruit Juice For 4 people
Gac 1 fruit (1.2kg) Passion fruit 1 kg Rock sugar 600 gr Water 4 liters
How to choose delicious, juicy passion fruit
- Choose naturally ripe passion fruits that have a bright red or golden yellow color, evenly colored, with a smooth, shiny skin, looking plump. The darker the color of the passion fruit, the riper it is, and the sweeter it will taste.
- When holding the passion fruit in your hand, you should feel that it is heavy, the size is proportional to its weight, and it has a characteristic mild fragrance; you should buy it as it will have a lot of juice.
- Avoid buying passion fruits with mottled colors or uneven colors because these fruits are not ripe yet, so they are very sour and have little juice or may emit a strange smell, indicating sourness.
Tools for preparation
Hand blender, strainer, pot, knife, whisk,…
How to make gac passion fruit juice
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Prepare and filter passion fruit juice
Cut the passion fruit in half and scoop out the pulp. Then, use a hand blender to blend the passion fruit smoothly.
Next, pour the blended passion fruit through a strainer to separate the seed pulp and collect the juice, then put it into a pot.
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Blend and filter gac juice
Cut the gac in half, remove all the gac seeds and take the red flesh.
Next, add 100ml of filtered water to the gac flesh and use a hand blender to blend the gac flesh until smooth.
After blending, continue adding 100ml of water and stir well to mix the gac flesh with the water, then strain the gac juice through a fine sieve into a pot containing the passion fruit juice.
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Cooking Passion Fruit Gac Juice
You stir the mixture of gac juice and passion fruit with 4 liters of water, then put it on the stove and cook over medium heat.
When the water boils, add 600g of rock sugar to the pot, cover it, and continue to cook for 10 minutes to let the sugar dissolve.
After 10 minutes, turn off the stove and let it cool; you can enjoy it right away!
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Final Product
The passion fruit gac juice is nutritious, delicious, with the tangy aroma of passion fruit, beautifully blended with the mild fragrance of gac.
When enjoying the chilled gac passion fruit juice, you should add a little water, and a few ice cubes to dilute the juice and make it taste better!
How to Choose Good Ripe Gac Fruit
- To choose good gac fruit, you should select ones with bright red skin, evenly spread spikes on the skin, and the fruit should be round and of moderate size.
- When holding the gac, it should feel heavy and firm, press lightly on the skin and feel it slightly hard, and the stem should be fresh and firmly attached to the fruit, indicating that it is ripe and tasty.
- You should not buy gac fruits with soft skin and withered stems, as these are fruits that have been stored for too long or are spoiled, which will not taste good when processed.
Just with a few simple steps from how to make gac juice that Dien May and TasteVN just introduced, you can immediately have a refreshing juice to drink and invite the whole family to enjoy. What are you waiting for? Get into the kitchen and make it right away!
