how do you get the juice from pomegranites and passion fruits?
i havnt yet worked out a good way to get the juice without pips, can anyone shed any light for me?
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using a juicing machine
Its probably cheaper and less messy to buy the darned stuff! I buy promegranate juice (pomegreat a great make) from £1.49 a liter and to be honest if you had to buy the fruit and get the juice it would probably work out more expensive.
Pomegranates are passion fruits (different name, same thing) so that may help.
Basically, the best way to get passion fruit juice is to buy it in commercial form. The juice, as you’ve probably noticed, is held in suspension in a kind of gooey stuff surrounding each pip. If you are very patient, you can get some juice by taking each fruit, scooping out the flesh & pips into a sieve, and then rubbing the flesh & pips with a wooden spoon into a bowl – but you won’t get much juice out of each fruit. You will get a few drops, plus some sticky pulp and a lot of pips. Do not use a juicing machine! You will get bits of ground-up pip in your juice, which is not what you’re looking for, plus you could damage your juicer. As the previous person suggested, buy it in carton form. You could spend a lot of money buying enough pomegranates to get a litre of juice, whereas you could just buy a carton of it for a couple of quid. The industrial juicing firms know what they’re doing.
Part of the fun of passion fruit, if you ask me, is that it’s juicy, tasty and crunchy at the same time – i.e., eat the pips and forget about trying to extract the juice yourself. They won’t do you any harm, in fact they’ll be useful fibre, and they’re not sour like apple pips – quite tasty, actually. People in the Middle East have been eating them for centuries.
.Scoop out the innards [pips -n-all] then microwave on low power [25-30%] for 1 minute [900watts; 1 1/2 mins 650watts]
Then the juice and pips will seperate themselves. Then just strain through a sieve.
Its cheaper to buy the juice, but your best bet is a juicer if you want fresh juice.
And Lexo 80 Passion fruit and Pomegranate are not the same. Passion fruit is passiflora edulis and Pomegranate are
punica granatum
half the pomegranite and hit the back of it with a wooden spoon.make sure you have a bowl handy as you could be hunting for the seeds this time next week
Grandma taught me to fill the sink with water and hold the quartered or halfed pomegranite under the water. The seeds come out much easier and without squirting all over your clothes. This stuff staines very bad. After getting the seeds out then run them through a juicer.
First, Pomegranates and Passion Fruit are NOT the same fruit. Though in some places passion fruit are called “granadillas” (name stemming from the similarity of the seeds and the Island Grenada), they are not related to pomegranates. Nevertheless, the juicing technique is fairly similar (always the issue of getting rid of those annoying seeds), keep in mind that there are differences.
1. First, when choosing the passion fruit make sure that they are the juicing kind. These have a yellow skin/pulp and will taste sour, whereas the eating kind will have a purple skin with white pulp and be to sweet (or even insipid) to make juice out of. As for the pomegranates check the inside of the pottom hole to check that it is ripe but not going green.
2. After choosing the proper fruit, open by splitting in half and carefully spoon out the pulp. Sink the pomegranate pulp in cold water for a bit so that the white dividers float and the seeds sink to bottom. Throw out the white stuff or it will give your juice a bitter taste.
3. Pass the pulp through a blender with a little water.
4. Pass juice through a mesh strainer to get rid of the seeds using something to press as much juice into the bowl (I use the back of a laddle).
By then you should have a nice juice
Another alternative is to either pass the pulp through a grinder and then strain. Or if you can’t find the fruit you can buy fresh fruit pulp which can be bought frozen in Latin American markets. This will be natural fruit pulp just pasteurized but without additives. They usually come in passion fruit, strawberry, rasberry, etc… and just need to be blended with water.
Hope you enjoy your drink!!!
In the supermarket, next to the smoothies.
Just an idea but hows about trying one of the old fashioned orange squeezers, or a wooden reamer. it should get out the juice without the pips. I think half the fun in eating a pomegranite is to sit and spit out the pips trying to write your name with them. (An idea I got from watching old duffers in Belgium where just using common spit they sit on town square benches trying to beat each other)…………….
i used to make fresh pommegrante jiuce.you half the pommegranate then by hand pick out each seed then stick them in the juicer