Fruit juice is not only a beverage for refreshing but also provides a large amount of vitamins and essential nutrients that are good for health. With these wonderful benefits, today TasteVN will guide you into the kitchen and share with you 4 recipes to make nutritious cranberry juice!
1. Cranberry Juice
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Preparation
20 minutes
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Processing
25 minutes
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Difficulty Level
Easy
Ingredients for Cranberry Juice For 2 liters
Cranberries 450 gr Yellow lemon 1/2 fruit Sugar 230 gr Salt A little
How to make Cranberry Juice
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Prepare the cranberries
Put the cranberries into a basin, remove any soft or spoiled fruits, then fill with water and add 1 teaspoon of salt, soaking for 15 minutes to clean off dirt from the skin.
Next, rinse with clean water once more and place in a colander to drain.
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Cook and blend the cranberries
Take a large pot, add the cranberries, fill with water to cover the fruit, and cook over medium heat.
Cover the pot and wait until the water boils. You need to cook thoroughly until the fruits in the pot are completely soft and floating on top. Then turn off the heat and let it cool completely.
Add a little salt to the pot and stir well, then use an immersion blender or transfer to a blender to puree the cranberries.
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Strain the cranberry juice and finish
Pass the blended cranberries through a sieve to remove the pulp and collect the juice.
Add 230g of sugar to the filtered cranberry juice, stir well until the sugar dissolves, then squeeze in 1/2 lemon to enhance the flavor of the juice.
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Final product
Cranberry juice with a bright red color looks very attractive, just looking at it makes you want to take a sip immediately.
The natural sweet and sour taste of cranberries combined with a hint of lemon aroma is very suitable for refreshing and replenishing energy for the body.
2. Cranberry Apple Juice
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Preparation
20 minutes
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Processing
20 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Cranberry Apple Juice For 1 person
Apple 2 fruits Cranberries 250 gr Salt A little
How to choose fresh and delicious apples
- Choose apples that are medium-sized, round, firm to the touch, and heavy, as they will yield more juice.
- You should choose apples with bright colors, shiny skin, and a few small specks.
- Ripe and delicious apples usually have a very fragrant smell, making them tastier. Apples that are not fully ripe will be less fragrant and often have a sour and slightly astringent taste, making them less enjoyable to eat.
- For safety, you should buy apples from reputable places or large supermarkets to ensure the apples are clean and not treated with harmful chemicals.
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How to make Cranberry Apple Juice
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Prepare the ingredients
Put the cranberries in a basin, fill it with water, and add a little salt to soak for 15 minutes, then rinse with clean water. Do the same with the apples. Then let them drain.
Use a knife to cut the apples into quarters and remove the seeds.
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Extract juice from cranberries and apples
Put the cranberries and apples into the juicer one by one to extract the juice. Then stir well, and it can be consumed immediately.
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Final Product
In no time, we have completed the cranberry and apple juice.
Pour into a glass, add some ice cubes, and enjoy right away. This juice retains the gentle aroma and natural sweet and sour taste, along with a refreshing chill from the ice that will help cool you down extremely well!
3. Cranberry and Watermelon Juice
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Preparation
20 minutes
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Cooking
10 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Cranberry and Watermelon Juice Serves 2
Cranberries 232 gr Watermelon 1/2 fruit (small fruit) Lemon 1 fruit Sugar 3 tablespoons Salt A pinch
How to choose fresh and delicious watermelon
- To choose a good watermelon, you should select one that is still fresh, with a dark green, shiny skin.
- Use your finger to tap the watermelon and listen for a crisp sound, and check that the stem part is still fresh green and not wilted, indicating a good watermelon.
- Observe the bottom of the watermelon; you should choose those with a yellow (or cream) bottom, and the more concave and deeper it is, the sweeter the watermelon will be.
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Tools needed
Blender, spoon, strainer, glass water bottle,…
How to make Cranberry and Watermelon Juice
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Prepare the ingredients
Soak the cranberries in diluted salt water for 15 minutes and then rinse with clean water.
Wash the watermelon and use a knife to cut off the skin and cut it into many small pieces.
Wash the lemon and then slice it into thin rounds.
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Blend blueberries and watermelon
Before blending, set aside a little watermelon and blueberries for decoration when finished!
At this point, add the cut watermelon, blueberries, and 3 tablespoons of sugar into the blender and blend until smooth.
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Strain blueberry watermelon juice
Prepare a strainer and then pour the blended mixture of blueberries and watermelon through the strainer to remove the pulp and retain the juice.
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Final product
Pour the blueberry and apple juice into a pitcher with ice, add a few fresh blueberries, sliced lemons, and diced watermelon and stir well.
Now we have completed the refreshing blueberry and watermelon juice! The juice has a sweet, slightly sour taste, very refreshing, perfect for quenching thirst on hot, humid days.
4. Cranberry and Pomegranate Juice
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Preparation
20 minutes
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Cooking
10 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Cranberry and Pomegranate Juice Serves 2 people
Cranberries 200 gr Pomegranates 3 fruits Ginger 1/2 bulb Sugar/ salt A little
How to choose fresh, delicious red pomegranates
- When buying pomegranates, you should pay attention to choose fruits that are slightly square, with many corners, and avoid round fruits.
- The pomegranate fruit has fully opened buds, with many cracks; this indicates that the pomegranate is ripe, the seeds will be plump, juicy, and have a sweet taste.
- You should not choose fruits that are completely red. Because red fruits are those that have been exposed to enough sunlight but have a slightly sour taste inside. You should choose fruits with yellow skin, which will have red inside, very sweet and delicious.
- Choose pomegranate fruits that feel heavy in hand. The heavier the fruit, the more water it contains, making it sweeter and fresher.
- The skin of the fruit must be hard, crispy, and firm. Then check if there are many scratches on the skin. If the fruit has a smooth, shiny skin, it means the pomegranate is still fresh. If the pomegranate skin is dry and has black spots, it means the fruit has been harvested for a long time and is no longer fresh.
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How to Make Cranberry and Pomegranate Juice
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Prepare Ingredients
Soak the pomegranate and cranberries in diluted salt water for 15 minutes, then rinse them with clean water.
Separate the seeds from the pomegranate and discard the skin. Wash the ginger and peel it.
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Blend Cranberries and Pomegranate
Put the pomegranate seeds, cranberries, half a ginger root, and 250ml of water into a blender, cover it, and blend until smooth.
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Strain Cranberry Pomegranate Juice
Prepare a cloth bag or strainer to filter the blended mixture into a bowl to remove the pulp. Then add 3 tablespoons of sugar and stir well.
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Final product
The cranberry pomegranate juice is complete, add some ice to enhance the refreshing coldness when drinking!
The juice has a fragrant aroma with the sweet and sour taste characteristic of pomegranate and cranberry, bringing a very fresh feeling, making it extremely suitable to cool down your body during hot days!
What is cranberry?
- Cranberry is a familiar food in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere such as North America and European countries. It is a type of low-growing shrub. The plant has small leaves, sharp purple thorns, and dark pink flowers.
- The cranberry is small and round, turning a deep red when ripe, with a plump skin and a mildly sweet, slightly tart taste.
- This fruit is rich in vitamins and essential minerals, helping to boost the immune system, beautify the skin, combat aging, and maintain a slim figure.
- Cranberries are commonly used to make drinks or as ingredients in recipes for cakes and also for making dried jams.
How to choose fresh and delicious cranberries
- When buying cranberries, pay attention to choose those with a deep red color. The fruit should be juicy, with smooth, plump skin and a certain firmness. You should be able to smell the fragrant aroma of the fruit.
- Avoid soft fruits with wrinkled skin as this is a sign that the fruit is no longer fresh.
- If you cannot find fresh cranberries, you can look for frozen cranberries.
- You should choose to buy from reputable places where the quality of the fruit is guaranteed, and the packaging has a clear production date and expiration date.
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With simple steps that don’t take too much time, you can make refreshing cranberry juice to cool off your family. We hope that with these shares from TasteVN, you will succeed from your very first attempt!
