Pineapple juice
Handpressed all natural pure pineapple juice
Servings 5
Calories 444kcal
Ingredients
- 1/2 of 1 Pineapple
- 2 cups Sugar
- 3 cups Water
Instructions
- Remove the peel of the pineapple (as seen in the video) cut the pulp into 2 use one half of it , cut it into small pieces. Use the core too , cut into cubes.
- Cover and cook the pineapple pieces and the core in two cups of water until the pieces are soft. Once it comes to room temperature sieve the juice and keep aside, remove the core pieces from it and put it back into the pot used for boiling.
- Keep the sieve and a muslin cloth and hand press the pineapple until there is no more juice left. THE JOY OF DOING LITTLE THINGS without a machine. Then feel the fiber with your finger tips. Discard it or use this as a natural body scrub if you like.
- Keep the extracted pineapple juice aside and boil a cup of water along with the pineapple core pieces from earlier. Once the water boils remove the core and add the sugar into it reduce heat and allow this to thicken and form a sugar syrup. Allow it to cool.
- Mix the pineapple juice extract and the sugar syrup. Carefully pour into clean dry air tight bottles and refrigerate. Use while making smoothie, flavored teas, cocktails or cocktails.
Video
Notes
Sugar syrup thickness test - At the end of cooking the sugar syrup lift a spoon of the liquid and it should not fall easily like water but drip off gradually.