It's pomegranate season! These fruits are beautiful, delicious, and a super food. You can read more about their health benefits here. I just bought 25 pounds of organic pomegranates from our local co-op and decided to make pomegranate juice for the first time for Thanksgiving. It was a bit labor intensive, but very easy and so delicious! I'm hooked for life! Here's how I did it...
Wash off your pomegranates. Fill a large bowl full of water and place it on your kitchen counter. Put on an apron (the juice can sometime spray and can stain.) Cut off the crown of the pomegranate and score the outside in 4 sections. Put the pomegranate in the bowl of water and pull apart. Keeping it in the bowl and under water will prevent any juice from spraying you. Once you separate out all the seeds and pulp, place the seeds in a blender or Vitamix and pulse for 10-15 seconds. Strain the juice to remove seed and any extra pulp and you will be left with delicious juice!
I plan to freeze some of our extra juice to bring out throughout the winter. I also mixed some in with fresh squeezed orange juice this morning, which was delicious.
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