Fresh Orange Juice

Serving Size: 10

Bright and sweet orange juice is delicious to enjoy on its own for a healthy beverage, or include in your favorite drink recipes. And even without a standing juicer it’s very easy to make freshly squeezed orange juice at home. Here I share with you step-by-step instructions for how to make orange juice using a blender or mixer. Note: If you have a simple juicer this will save some time.

Recipe by: Dassana Amit

Cook Times

Active Prep30

Hands-On Cook0

Hands-Off Cook0

Passive0

Total Time30

Recipe Serving Size10

Cooking Tools Required

Blender, Cutting board, Fine-Mesh Strainer, Kitchen towels, Large pitcher, Measuring cups and spoons, Mixing spoon, Sharp Knives, Spatula

Ingredients

4 ½ pound orange
2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

Optional:

sugar
honey
jaggery

Instructions

Peel the oranges and take the orange segments in a blender jar.
Add 1 tablespoon lemon juice. This is optional and you can skip if you want.
Run the blender on low to medium speed for some seconds till the mixture becomes pulpy and the oranges are crushed. Avoid blending too much as we just need to crush the segments and not the seeds.
If the seeds gets crushed, the juice will become bitter. So don't blend at a stretch. You can also use the pulse option of the blender. If you prefer you can remove the orange seeds before juicing them.
Line a juice strainer over a bowl or pan. In the juice strainer, pour the orange juice.
Strain the juice with a help of a spoon. Keep on pressing and moving the spoon, so that the all the juice is strained well.
You should only have the stringy orange pulp remaining after all the juice is strained.
The juice will be collected in the bowl or pan. If you want you can add some sugar or honey or jaggery to the juice to sweeten it.
Pour immediately in glasses and serve orange juice.

Notes

Try to include sweet tasting oranges so that you don’t need to add any additional sweetener. If the oranges are not sweet you will have to add some sugar or honey or your preferred sweetener.
Drink the juice as soon as it is prepared. Don’t keep it standing for few hours as then it will turn bitter.
For a colder juice place the oranges or the orange segments in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.

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