Ginger-pineapple juice

🍍 Chilled filtered pineapple and ginger drink without alcohol or added sugar.

Ingredients

• 500 g peeled ripe pineapple flesh
• 50 g peeled fresh ginger
• 600 ml cold drinking water

Preparation

Wash pineapple exterior before cutting. Remove peel and eyes and weigh 500 g sound flesh. Wash ginger, peel and weigh 50 g. Cut pieces suitable for blender.

Put pineapple, ginger and 300 ml water in clean blender. Pulse then blend about 45–60 seconds according to equipment until fine.

Strain through fine sieve into clean container. Press pulp moderately with clean spoon without forcing all fibres through.

Add remaining 300 ml water and mix. Refrigerate about 30 minutes at 4 °C or below. No sugar, milk, bottled juice or alcohol is added.

Stir and divide into 4 glasses of about 230–260 ml depending on filtering. Reference: 20 preparation, no cooking, 30 chilling, total 50 minutes. Drink remains pungent; record ginger adjustments for later batches.