How to make blackberry juice

Blackberries, they are just like weeds, but very tasty and healthy weeds that are full of antioxidants. I pick several kilos from one bush every year. Don't have blackberries in your garden? Plan a good walk in the right places and you can make a lot of juice yourself, delicious blackberry syrup. To use as juice in your dessert, as syrup for a tasty lemonade, or a coulis. But how do you make blackberry juice?

How do you make blackberry juice?

In the past I ventured into making blackberry/elderberry wine. It is not only very tasty, but it is also very fun to do. The process itself, the bubbling in the kitchen; really recommended to try. Unfortunately I don't have time for this anymore. Do you have time and would you like to experience the process (recommended)? How to make elderberry/blackberry wine you can read here. Today I will stick to the basics, I am going to make blackberry juice! I will explain how to make blackberry juice to you now.

Making blackberry juice without sugar? That's possible too, a healthier choice

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Times are changing, also for me. Blackberry juice with sugar is delicious but if you, like me, often add blackberry juice to yoghurt, cottage cheese or homemade kefir then sugar is not necessary at all in my opinion. In addition to the dairy product I often add oatmeal, cinnamon and fruit. Then your dish is really sweet enough. Blackberry juice without sugar does not keep as long. Make small portions at a time or freeze the juice in cubes in ice cube trays.

Make this delicious blackberry juice from the ripest, juicy blackberries!

The riper the blackberries, the more flavor your juice will have. So pick nice ripe blackberries. Blackberries come off easily when they are ripe. The cushions look nice and juicy filled.

Collect your blackberries in the freezer and cook them in larger portions. Handy and frozen blackberries give more fruit juice.

Handy because blackberries are not all ripe at the same time: Pick blackberries regularly from your bush and store them in ZIP bags in your freezer. Besides the fact that you are now saving the blackberries, frozen blackberries will give more juice when you defrost them later. But you can also make delicious blackberry juice from fresh blackberries! So hop into the garden, in search of ripe blackberries.

Wash the blackberries well after picking. If you leave the blackberries under water for a while, any crawlers will try to leave the bowl via the edge and your blackberry juice will be truly vegetarian.

Drain the blackberries well and puree the blackberries with a hand blender or crush the blackberries with an iron pestle.

Push the blackberry puree through a sieve. You will have a lot of pulp left over, but that's okay. You will have delicious, good quality juice without the hard bits and seeds in the pan. Great, the kids won't complain this year.

Heat the juice in the pan on the stove. For 100 grams of blackberries you only need a few teaspoons of sugar to give the juice some flavor. But in the end it is your own taste that determines the sweetness of the juice. The solution is simple: taste it!

Boil the juice for 5-10 minutes. In the meantime, you can boil small bottles or jam jars.

Very handy for storing the juice in smaller portions or giving it away.

Storing blackberry juice

Boil these bottles well. Fill the bottles almost to the top, screw them shut and place them upside down for a while. This way the bottles are hermetically sealed and can be kept for a while. There is not as much sugar in it as in jam, so to be on the safe side it is advisable to store them in the refrigerator.

Handy: store your juice in portions: fill the plastic molds you use to make ice cubes or small bottles. This way you can use the juice in small quantities. Also handy to give smoothies a nice red, healthy "bite".

Hmm, yummy. I'm curious what you think of the blackberry juice. Will you let me know if you made the blackberry juice? Show it with the tag #zoethoudertje on Instragram or @carolabaktzoethoudertjes on Facebook!