Watermelon Juice
Fresh watermelon blended with lime juice and a pinch of salt and strained into a cold, pink juice.
Photograph credit: Juice, watermelon by ExplorerBob · Pixabay Content License · Pixabay
Where This Goes Wrong
Choose a ripe, heavy melon.
Strain for a clear juice.
Add a pinch of salt.
Serve very cold.
How to Make Watermelon Juice
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Blend the watermelon for 30 seconds until completely liquid.
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Pour through a sieve into a jug, pressing with a spoon.
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Stir in the lime juice and salt and taste.
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Serve over the ice with the mint.
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Why It Works
It looks like a pink soft drink and tastes like the fruit itself, which is why the choice of melon matters more than anything else. A ripe one is heavy for its size, with a yellow patch where it lay on the ground and a hollow sound when tapped.
Cut the flesh into chunks and take out the seeds if you can, though they strain out anyway. Blend for 30 seconds until completely liquid, then pour through a sieve into a jug, pressing with a spoon. Straining is optional, but it gives a clear juice instead of a pulpy one. Add a pinch of salt. It sounds odd, and it makes the sweetness taste brighter.
Stir in the lime juice and taste. Add a spoonful of sugar only if the melon was not very sweet.
Serve over ice with a mint leaf, and drink within a few hours, because the juice separates and loses its freshness.
Leftovers, Reheating and Keeping
Best drunk within a few hours. Keeps in the fridge for 1 day; stir before pouring.
Swaps and Variations
- Lemon is the everyday swap for lime in this kind of dish — the acidity plays the same role even though the flavour is not identical.
Serving Watermelon Juice
- Tacos
- Grilled corn
- Tortilla chips
- Fresh fruit
Watermelon Juice Nutrition
Per serving, calculated from the ingredient list with USDA FoodData Central figures (SR Legacy). A calculation, not a laboratory analysis: brands, cuts and how you measure change the real numbers. How the figures are worked out.
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