Homemade Tomato Juice

Ingredients

• Tomatoes

  Red, ripe, raw, year round average

  12 medium whole or 1.48kg

• Onions

  Raw

  1 small or 70g

• Celery

  Raw

  1 cup chopped or 101g

• Bay leaf

  Spices

  1 tsp, crumbled or 0.6g

• Paprika

  Spices

  ¼ tsp or 0.5g

• Sugar

  White, granulated sugar

  ½ tsp or 2g

• Lemons

  Raw, with peel

  3 slice (1/8 of fruit) or 41g

• Salt

  Table

  1 dash or 0.4g

Directions

1. Core tomatoes (just remove its top green part) and cut them into thin wedges. Chop onion, and celery.
2. Add tomatoes, chopped onion, chopped celery, bay leaf, sugar, paprika and salt in a pot.
3. Cook uncovered on low heat for around 25-30 minutes or until tomatoes become soft and mixture is juicy. Stir in between occasionally.
4. Strain the mixture through a fine sieve to get juice, discard the solids. Another option is to puree the mixture in a blender and strain through sieve.
5. Chill the mixture for 30 minutes before serving. Serve in chilled glasses and garnish with lemon wedges.

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