Homemade Tomato Juice

 

Homemade tomato juice is very easy to make and it can’t be replaced by one you will buy in your supermarket. Why? Because the one you buy will contain more than just tomato juice, which means a number of additives, color, tomato powder and many other things that only damage your health. Nice package and label ‘natural’ shouldn’t trick anyone into buying that. When you once try homemade tomato juice, you will definitely know the difference. So once tomato season starts, don’t waste time, rush to market, buy ripe tomato (or pick from your own garden) and get onto work.

Preparation:

• Wash tomatoes, cut top and chop tomatoes into larger pieces.
• Put a large cooking pot on the stove and fill it with chopped tomato.
• Start heating but keep stirring at beginning to prevent sticking.
• When the tomato is cooked, thin skin will separate and roll.
• Take the pot off and press tomato through the presser to get rid of seed and skin.
• Pour juice into a new pot and cook until 1/4 of that juice evaporates.
• Add salt per taste (but remember salt preserves it, so little more salty is better)
• Take clean and dry bottles, pour fill them with hot juice carefully so they don't break. 
• Close bottles using cellophane and bottle caps, and put them in a clean carton box.
• Cover the box well, pack it around with a sheet and then wrap with a blanket. Important is to keep heat for a long time.
• Leave it 24 h and store in a dark, dry and cold place.

Homemade tomato juice can be used for preparing soups, tomato sauce, as pizza topping instead of all but healthy ketchup from supermarket, as salad dressing, tortilla dip, or just as a refreshing drink. There's nothing so refreshing during hot summer days as cold tomato juice, plus you get vitamins and minerals, or during the winter when we need to take care of our health even more and tomato you can find in store is artificially pollinated, which usually means hormone treated.  

Once you finish preparation, pour one glass of your cold healthy homemade tomato juice, lean back in your favorite chair and enjoy, you deserved. Cheers!