How to make beetroot juice that is sweet and tangy, and refreshing with no earthy flavor and easy to make in a blender or a juicer! Homemade beet juice boosts energy lowers blood pressure and helps with weight loss as well as many other benefits.
How to make beet juice taste better? Easy, just add a combination of tang and sweet to the red vegetable. That's what I do with this beetroot juice recipe. The combination of two fruits and ginger, overcome beet's earthy flavor to produce a bright subtly sweet juice that you will want to drink.
It is a refreshing vegetable juice with the tang from fresh ginger, brightness from an orange, and sweetness by grapes. And like my ginger juice, my celery juice and my cucumber lemon juice, it's easy to make this healthy drink with just a blender.
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Why You’ll Love This
Easy to make. You can use a juicer to make this beetroot juice but a blender works too! Just blend up the ingredients into a purée and pour it through a fine mesh strainer.
Healthy juice. Beet juice is healthy even made with just beets and water. Add the other ingredients in this recipe and you have a juice that boosts energy, immunity, provides micronutrients and supports your heart and blood flow to an extraordinary level.
Ingredients
- Beets. Use fresh raw beets. Wash, peel, chop and blanche for best flavor and to be sure they are clean enough to eat raw.
- Green grapes. Try to buy organic grapes. Green grapes are sweetest, but other colors are also fine.
- Orange. Any type of orange, peeled.
- Ginger. Fresh ginger root is best. You don’t even need to peel it. Just wash it well and chop it into small pieces.
Substitutions
- Green grapes. Use red grapes instead.
- Oranges. Use apples instead.
- Ginger root. Use lemon juice instead.
Prepare Beets for Juice
The key to a delicious beet juice is how you prepare your beets. You will be using raw beets, so washing off the dirt and getting them to a good size to process is your goal. Follow these steps to clean and chop your beets.
- (Image 1) Chop off the greens, and rinse your beets with water, rubbing off obvious dirt. You can also clean them with a veggie cleaner if you have one, or even a white vinegar solution (add 1 tablespoon of vinegar to a cup of water).
- (Image 1) Use a paring knife or a potato peeler to scrap off top skin.
- (Image 2) Chop the beets into small pieces.
Now you must be sure your raw beets have no bacteria on them since you'll be using them raw, and to soften them. To do that, blanche them.
- (Image 3) To blanche your chopped beets, drop them in a pot of boiling water for 2 minutes.
- (Image 4) Drain the beet pieces and drop them into a bowl of cold water. Now your beets are ready for juicing.
Step by Step Instructions
Step 1: Prepare your beets as described above and set them aside and prepare your other ingredients.
Step 2: Wash your orange, peel it, remove seeds if wanted, and cut or segment. (Image 1)
Step 3: Clean grapes: Rinse organic grapes. If you couldn't buy organic, rinse the grapes in a solution of white vinegar (add 1 tablespoon of vinegar to a cup of water). This solution clears away pesticides and bacteria on fruits. Put the grapes in a bowl and pour the solution over them until they are submerged - make more solution if needed. Strain off the vinegar solution and rinse the grapes with fresh water. (Image 2)
Step 4: Prepare ginger: Scrub your ginger root. There is no need to scrap off the skin, just chop the root into small pieces. (Image 3)
Step 5: Two ways to make beet juice.
- Use a Juicer: Feed the beets and fruit into the chute and run the juicer according to manufacturer's instructions. The juice you gather is ready to consume. Discard the pulp, or freeze it to add to smoothies.
- Use a Blender: Add water, beet chunks, and fruit to the blender. Pour the mixture through a fine mesh strain. The liquid that results is your juice. Discard the pulp, or freeze it to add to smoothies. (Image 4,5,6)
Storage
Refrigerated. Fresh beet juice should be consumed right away for optimum nutritional benefits. However, it is still drinkable for up to 2 days refrigerated in a sealed container.
Frozen. To freeze homemade beetroot juice long term, pour it into ice cube trays and freeze. Once frozen, store the cubes in freezer safe containers for up to 6 months. To thaw, put a few cubes in a glass refrigerated overnight, and drink in the morning.
Recipe Tips
1. This recipe makes 1 cup of juice, or 8 ounces, but it's thick so could easily be doubled by adding a cup of water if you prefer a thinner juice.
2. Don't skip blanching. Blanching is important to clear the raw beets of any residual dirt or bacteria, and to soften them, especially important when blending to avoid a grainy texture to your juice.
3. If using a blender, it needs to be a high-speed blender. Or you could break down the mixture in a food processor without the water, and then use a blender with the water addition.
4. The beet juice pulp can be discarded or add to smoothies for extra fiber.
5. Choose grapes that are sweet not sour.
Beet Juice Benefits
Beets and beetroot juice are known for dense nutrition and drinking beet juice provides the following benefits [source]:
- Beet juice is low in calories and rich in nutrients.
- It can support weight loss by speeding up metabolism, improving digestion and reducing appetite.
- Beet juice contains nitrates which can lower blood pressure. So those people who already have low blood pressure should talk to their doctor about drinking beetroot juice.
- Boosts energy. Components in beets support blood oxygen thus help improve exercise stamina.
- Beet juice has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects that curb inflammation, and fight disease.
FAQS
Overcome the bitter or earthy flavor in beets by adding a sweet fruit and a spice. In this recipe I added oranges and grapes for the sweet flavor, and fresh ginger to provide spicy heat. The result is a delicious flavorful juice.
No, you shouldn't cook beets to make juice. The juicer or blender will break the vegetable down enough to extract the juice. In fact, cooking beets first will diminish the nutritional value of beet juice.
You can use pre-cooked beets for convenience. But know that cooking beets is known to diminish nutritional quality so your resulting juice will be slightly less nutritious. For instance, LoveBeets brand steams theirs for 40 minutes. If you do choose to use pre-cooked, you can find them in packages in the produce area of grocery stores. Be sure to use their plain flavor, however, don't buy a flavored (vinegar) version by mistake.
Since the beet skin is buried in dirt and tough, it is best to peel it off before blending. The skin is thin, so you are not losing too much nutrition.
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How to Make Beetroot Juice (Blender, Benefits)
Equipment
- paring knife
Ingredients
- 1 cup beet, raw and chopped 1 large beet, chopped
- ½ cup green grapes
- ¼ cup orange, peeled half of a medium orange
- 2 tablespoon ginger root, chopped 1-inch knob of ginger root
For blender only
- ⅓ cup water
Instructions
Prep
- Prepare beets. Chop off the greens, rub dirt off beets and rinse well. Use a paring knife or a potato peeler to scrap off top skin. Chop the beets into small pieces, enough to fill 1 cup.
- Blanche beets. Drop the beet chunks into a pot of boiling water for 2 minutes. Drain and drop them into a bowl of cold water.
- Prepare other ingredients. Wash the grapes, peel the orange, and wash the ginger root, and chop.
Make beet juice with juicer
- Add all ingredients to your juicer.1 cup beet, raw and chopped, ½ cup green grapes, ¼ cup orange, peeled, 2 tablespoon ginger root, chopped
- Process the juicer and you have your juice.
Make beet juice with blender
- Add all ingredients to your blender jar, plus ⅓ cup of water. More water can be added if your blender needs it to process.1 cup beet, raw and chopped, ½ cup green grapes, ¼ cup orange, peeled, 2 tablespoon ginger root, chopped, ⅓ cup water
- Process the blender, and pour the mixture through a fine mesh strainer. Press on the pulp with the back of a spoon to get all the juice out. The juice you collect is your beet juice.
- Drink your fresh beet juice immediately over ice, or store in the refrigerator, or freeze in ice cube trays for long term storage.
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Notes
- This recipe makes 1 cup of juice, but it's thick so could easily be doubled by adding a cup of water if you prefer a thinner juice.
- Don't skip blanching. Blanching is important to clear the raw beets of any residual dirt or bacteria, and to soften them, especially important when blending to avoid a grainy texture to your juice.
- If using a blender, it needs to be a high-speed blender. Or you could break down the mixture in a food processor without the water, and then use a blender with the water addition.
- The beet juice pulp can be discarded or add to smoothies for extra fiber.
- Choose grapes that are sweet not sour.
- Green grapes. Use red grapes instead.
- Oranges. Use apples instead.
- Ginger root. Use lemon juice instead.
djf
The grapes are everything in this recipe!
Laura
The best flavor! Love the green grapes in here.