Fresh Tropicana
Fruit squash was always a favourite of mine as a child, now I have matured (albeit a little) I prefer freshly squeezed fruit juice. My trusty fruit juicer has helped me to introduce more fruits and veg into my diet, such as the dreaded mango! As I said last week mango’s texture just makes me feel ill but mango juice is amazing!
Seeing as my juices have been a bit conservative recently I decided to spice life up a bit and choose a juice recipe which contained some tropical fruits.
This recipe I found contains pineapple, mango, lime and ginger. For a long time I didn’t think that I liked pineapple, the juice yes but the fruit no, amazingly though when I was chopping up the pineapple to be juiced I decided to brave it and try it for the first time in years. And miracle of miracles I actually liked it! One more fruit that I like… yay!
When I tasted the juice though I decided the recipe needed a bit of tweaking as it was a bit too bitter. Therefore I have cut back on the ginger and recommend you only use half a lime (add a whole lime if you like the flavour but for me it’s just a bit too strong). You could also add more mango if you want to make the juice just that little bit sweeter.
Now on to the recipe…
Ingredients you will need:
1 large mango
1 large pineapple
1/2 a lime
1/2 a thumb of ginger
Instructions:
Peel and chop all the ingredients into juiceable chunks. Then blitz in the juicer and serve.
Rhubarbade
Now I know this technically isn’t a fruit juice but it is just so delicious I had to include it!
Now my neighbour is a super keen gardener, she grows so much stuff that there is just way too much stuff for her to use all by herself. As an alternative to just letting all this homegrown produce go to waste she is always giving seasonal fruit and veg to me! Now I’m not complaining but I get so much stuff that even for me it’s difficult to use up all the organic stuff I get!
This week I got given a whole load of rhubarb, after making countless rhubarb crumbles/pies etc I was stumped and I still had four/five stalks of rhubarb. Then when flicking through my reader on wordpress I found a recipe for rhubarbade (the equivalent of lemonade with rhubarb instead though). I had enough ingedients so decided to make it. After tasting it I knew that I just had to put this on my blog!
There are not many ingredients, yet it tastes amazing fresh and sweet!
Aside from one hiccup (I am not quite sure what happened to my brain, it must have momentarily switched off!) where I poured all the juice from the rhubarb down the sink instead of in the measuring jug and had to simmer the rhubarb all over again. Everything went very smoothly.
Now I will share with you the best rhubarbade recipe you will ever find…
Ingredients you will need:
2 cups of roughly chopped rhubarb
2 cups of water
1/4 cup of honey
Instructions:
1. Put the rhubarb in a medium sized pan, pour in the water and simmer until the rhubarb is soft (approx. 25 mins)
2. While the rhubarb is simmering, measure out the honey in a measuring jug
3. Once the rhubarb is soft, strain the liquid into the measuring jug containing the honey. Put the pulp to one side.
4. Stir the rhubarb juice and honey together to mix it all up then serve, can be drunk either hot or cold (it’s just as nice either way)
This recipe should make about 2 large glassfuls of rhubarbade and you can always double the quantity of the ingredients if you want to make more. If you pour the liquid into the measuring jug first time your juice should be a much darker colour than the rhubarbade I made (as it was for me), the slight hiccup earlier meant I had to re-simmer everything and therefore the colour wasn’t as deep. Unfortunately I don’t know what you can do with the pulp, I just had to throw it out any suggestions you may have as to what to do with the pesky pulp would be welcomed.
MO Juice (Mango and orange juice)
Now, I am pretty sure everyone has at least one thing that they like the taste of but can’t stand the texture of. For my sister this has got to be celery but for me it’s mango. I love mango juice but the texture of mango makes me want to throw up (charming, I know).
Because I love mango juice I decided to find a recipe which used mango. I happened to come across this one and, I must say, it was amazing! Definitely one of my favourite juices so far. This could be down to the fact it is such a sweet drink (my sweet tooth will be the death of me one day!) or the fact it is just truly delicious. Whichever way, if you make one juice in your life this has got to be it!
For a start it only needs two ingredients (orange and mango obviously!) and it tastes so damn delicious you will be scurrying back for seconds as soon as you have drunk the first (pretty quick judging by the time it took me to gulp down one delicious glass of this stuff).
The recipe as you will see is simply very easy…
Ingredients you will need:
1 large mango
4 small oranges
Instructions:
Peel and roughly chop the ingredients then blitz in your juicer. Alternate between putting in chunks of orange and mango so none of the fruit gets stuck (the orange is quite watery and needs to be flushed through with a chunk of mango). Serve and taste a little bit of heaven!
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