Pumpkin juice with orange for a sunny mood for the winter

To prepare for the cold weather, it is important to use all the variety of vitamins and healthy products that summer cottages gave us. Pumpkin juice with orange for the winter is a tasty and healthy drink that, on long winter evenings, will remind you of warm bright summer days with its color. It combines citrus and pumpkin, known for their characteristics and beneficial effects. If you are not very fond of pumpkin, then pumpkin juice with the addition of orange you will really like it. The combination of oranges and pumpkin gives a very pleasant, unusual taste.

Useful properties of pumpkin

The benefits of this wonderful vegetable can hardly be overestimated. It is rich in vitamins and minerals that have a beneficial effect on the human body.

Here are just a few useful qualities of pumpkin:

1. The pulp is rich in proteins, minerals, pectins and fiber. It also contains vitamins PP, B1 and B2, C. There are pumpkin varieties that contain more keratin than carrots.
2. Improves vision. The vegetable contains vitamin A, which has a positive effect on the eyes.
3. Helps the digestive system. Pumpkin pulp promotes the absorption of food, helps to reduce weight.
4. Improves metabolism.
5. Cleans the body. Pumpkin helps to eliminate toxins and toxins.
   Reduces blood pressure. Strengthens the walls of blood vessels.
6. Diuretic action. The high content of water (90%) and salts in pumpkin reduces the risk of kidney and bladder stones.
7. Strengthens the nervous system.
8. Helps with insomnia.
9. A low-calorie drink is a plus in losing weight.
10. Helps with the removal of worms.
11. Has anti-inflammatory effect. Strengthens the immune system.
12. Improves mood and vitality.
13. Contains a large amount of zinc, which protects against jaundice, Botkin's disease, cancer.
14. Strengthens bones. Promotes rapid tissue regeneration.
15. Used in cosmetology.

Such richness of pumpkin makes pumpkin juice with orange indispensable in cold winter.

You should refrain from drinking pumpkin juice for certain diseases:

• stomach diseases (gastritis, ulcer);
• duodenal problems;
• diabetes;
• bloating, colic;
• low acidity of the stomach, etc.

It is necessary to introduce pumpkin juice with orange, prepared for the winter, into the diet of children gradually, depending on their reaction. Keratin, a large amount of it, causes severe allergies.

Enriched with vitamins, very tasty and bright, homemade pumpkin juice made with your own hands, and even with oranges - a real vitamin bomb. And making pumpkin juice at home will not be difficult.

Juicing - orange mood

The recipe for making pumpkin juice with an orange for the winter. For this drink you will need:

• 8 kg pumpkin;
• 1.5 kg of oranges;
• sugar (about 2 kg);
• water;
• lemon acid.

The juice with pulp should be about 15 liters at the outlet.

You can reduce the amount of ingredients proportionally depending on the size of the pot and the amount of juice required. If you prefer sour drinks, use more oranges.

Cooking process: pumpkin-orange juice for the winter

Wash the pumpkin, peel it. Cut in half and free from seeds.

The color of the juice depends on the type of vegetable. Choose sweet fruits, they are bright orange in color.There are a lot of pumpkin varieties and only three varieties are very well suited for harvesting juice for the winter.

The varieties are famous for their tasty and juicy pulp:

• hard pumpkin - early variety with large seeds, very sweet fruit;
• large-fruited pumpkin - large fruits with very tasty, sweet pulp, weight up to 5 kg, you can store in a cold place all winter;
• butternut squash is a late variety, small fruits with very tasty and juicy pulp.

Cut the pulp into small pieces.

Wash oranges well. Remove the zest from them and grate it.
Combine the pumpkin pieces with the zest. Place them in a saucepan and cover with water (it should barely cover the flesh of the pumpkin).

Boil over the fire for 20-30 minutes until the pumpkin is cooked. You should get a soft mass.

Remove the resulting composition from heat and allow it to cool.
Beat the pumpkin mixture with a blender until smooth. You will get a drink with delicious pulp.

Add juice squeezed from oranges, a little citric acid, sugar to it. To mix everything. Taste the drink.

Bring the juice to a boil again and boil for 7-10 minutes. Remove the foam.
Sterilize cans prepared in advance.

Pour the juice into jars and roll up.

Delicious pumpkin juice with oranges is ready for the winter!

The juice has a slight drawback: it is acid-free and therefore has a short storage time, even if kept in the cold. Therefore, they make it in small portions, at a time.

In order to preserve pumpkin homemade juice at least until winter, and at most until the next season, you need to pasteurize or sterilize with further hermetic sealing.

Orange zest can be used in a different way. Cut it into large slices and cook with the juice at the very end. During this time, the zest will share its beneficial properties with the drink. Pull out the skins orange from the juice and roll it into prepared jars.

Fragrant viscous juice with notes of orange is not recommended to drink during or after meals. You need to drink juice separately from meals.

To strengthen the body, you should drink no more than 0.5 cups of pumpkin juice per day 30 minutes before meals. For weight loss and treatment, drink ¼ glass of juice 3 times a day before meals for at least 10 days.

To consume pumpkin juice during pregnancy, talk to your doctor.

Pumpkin juice has a caloric content of about 40 kcal per 100 grams, it can be given to children of different ages, and to the elderly, and to people weakened after illness.

Try making pumpkin juice and orange at home. It will definitely appeal to you and your loved ones on cold winter days!

Making pumpkin juice with oranges for the winter - video