Make your own delicious and healthy pomegranate juice! Discover 10 health benefits pomegranate fruit, a fruit that has been used from ancient times to treat and prevent disease.
Trim off the crown with the tip of a knife. Check where the star angles are, then cut the top in a pentagon shape.
Continue scoring the skin halfway down.
Then open the fruit like an open flower.
Place the pomegranate seeds into a large mixing bowl with water and deseed.
The juicy seeds will sink while the peels (white membranes) float. Use the colander to skim peel from the top of the water and drain arils in a colander.
Strain the pomegranate arils using a colander. At this point, you can use your pomegranates arils to place them on top of baba ganoush, desserts, or blend them in a smoothie, like our superfood detox smoothie.
Juice pomegranate juice
Place the pomegranate arils in a high-speed blender, add water, and blend for 40 seconds.
Sieve the liquid with a fine-mesh colander. You will notice that the liquid is thick; no worries, stir with a spoon to accelerate the process. It will not take more than one or two minutes.
And that is it; you have fresh pomegranate juice, ready to drink.
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Notes
Deseeding underwater helps prevent the red drops from sprinkling all over you.