Pineapple juice

Recently I have started liking pineapple. Which was something I never expected to happen. Me the pineapple-hating-weirdo (according to a pineapple-loving father anyway)! The texture never did much for me and neither did the taste. But after deciding to just try it (the last time I had tried it I was 5 years old and craving a chocolate bar). I decided I now like pineapple as well as coconut -but that is a different story!

 

Seeing as pineapple has become one of my favourite fruits (I get favourites pretty quickly) I have had a lot of pineapple cravings. To curb my insatiable craving for pineapple a pineapple juice seemed an obvious choice.

So to your great surprise I  went and made a pineapple juice. I know, so predictable. But damn, that pineapple juice tasted soooo good! Actually better than good, more like A-MAZ-ING!  And it tasted completely different from pineapple juice you buy from a shop. To be honest, I don’t know why I was surprised as homemade stuff is always so much nicer than anything you can buy in shops.

This is probably my favourite juice because it is the easiest juice I have ever made. For the simple reason it only has one ingredient… pineapple! It is incredibly refreshing and an amazing colour.

 

Ingredients:

1 large pineapple

Instructions:

Top, tail and peel the pineapple. Then chop into juiceable chunks and juice!

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.