How to make tomato juice yourself

The healthy and diverse tomato

Tomatoes can be used in many ways in the kitchen. Whether as a salad, sauce or juice, in vegetables, in casseroles or as a pizza topping, tomatoes add color to food and also many healthy ingredients.
They contain many trace elements, minerals, vitamins, fruit acids, proteins, carbohydrates and fiber. The large amount of water makes the tomato a tasty, low-calorie snack.

Juice tomatoes

You can make tomato juice yourself quickly and without much effort. Especially with a rich harvest, juice can be produced for the whole year. Choose between cold and hot juicing.

Cold juicing

This works with a juicer, which slowly and gently extracts the juice from the fruit using a screw press.

1. Wash the tomatoes and divide them into small pieces. Remove the green stalk.
2. Put the tomato pieces in the juicer in portions.
3. Collect the juice in a suitable container. The machine conveys the dry residues into a separate container.
4. The juice can now be seasoned and drunk.
5. If you want to preserve the juice, you have to boil it once and fill it into sterile bottles while it is still hot.

Juicing in a saucepan

To make one quart of tomato juice, you need about three pounds of tomatoes.

1. Wash the tomatoes and cut them into small pieces. Remove the stalk in the process.
2. Put the tomato pieces in a large saucepan.
3. Cook the tomatoes, stirring constantly, for about 40 minutes.
4. Pass the tomato puree through a fine cheesecloth and collect the juice in a bowl.
5. You can now season the juice to taste.

The juice obtained in this way can be drunk or made into tomato soup or can be used as a sauce base in meat dishes. You can freeze the juice or put it hot in suitable containers and store it. It lasts for a few months. If it is to be preserved for a longer period of time, the juice can be filled into mason jars and again approx. Can be boiled down for 40 minutes.
If you would like to make a juice with pulp, puree the tomato puree with the mixer.