Tomato Juice Recipe Using Fresh Tomatoes
Learn how to make this delicious Tomato Juice recipe using fresh tomatoes. It’s a healthy and tasty beverage that is the perfect way to use up extra tomatoes and veggies from the garden. Blend the ingredients and then serve it chilled or over ice for a refreshing and nutritious drink reminiscent of V8 vegetable juice.
What is Tomato Juice?
Tomato Juice is a savory beverage full of fresh flavors. This juice recipe is different from tomato juice in a can which is usually meant to be added to Italian style recipes.
Instead, this recipe is blended and strained and then served over ice. It’s a healthier homemade version of V8 juice, but without the questionable ingredients, added sugars, and heat processing.
Learn how to make your own tomato juice that has a great taste and is a refreshing drink.
This juice uses your freshest garden tomatoes and requires no cooking!
- Tomatoes are often in abundance in the backyard garden, and this is Tomato Juice Recipe is the best way to use them up. It’s one of my favorite ways to use up a lot of tomatoes at once.
- Making your own fresh juices is easy, delicious, and nutritious. You can use a blender, juicer, potato masher, food processor, or food mill.
- Juicing is a great way to add nutrients to your daily diet.
Key Ingredients
Tomatoes contain antioxidants and are the main ingredient of this fresh juice. You can use plum tomatoes or really any variety of tomato that you like. One of the benefits of tomato juice is that you’ll get a lot of nutrition in just one glass of juice.
Carrots add a natural sweetness when juiced. I think the carrots help balance the tomato juice taste, along with the other ingredients.
Celery contains fiber and is hydrating and helps balance the flavors of this homemade tomato juice recipe.
A pinch of salt brings out the best flavors. Feel free to add some black pepper or cayenne pepper if you wish!
Hot sauce makes this a really fun drink! Definitely give it a try, or leave it out if you don’t like spicy foods.
See the recipe card below for the full list of ingredients and measurements.
How to Make Tomato Juice
Step One
Wash and chop your veggies so they fit in the blender or juicer.
Please see the recipe card at the end of this post for the exact ingredients and measurements.
Step Two
Add all ingredients to your chosen machine, adding water if using a blender.
Step Three
Blend until smooth or run through the juicer per directions.
Step Four
Strain through a nut milk bag, chill, and serve!
Recipe Tips
- Fresh juice is best served right after it’s made. But, it can be stored in a covered container in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
- Try to use ripe tomatoes for this recipe for the most flavor.
- If you don’t want any spiciness to the flavor of your juice, leave out the hot sauce.
- This recipe is very versatile! You can adjust or adapt the types of vegetables that you blend with the tomatoes. Feel free to use additional ingredients such as flat-leaf parsley, cilantro, beets, lemon juice, and even an apple or orange juice to add additional sweetness.
Recipe FAQs
Carrots have a natural sweetness, making them the perfect addition to the juice. If you are looking for an extra sweetness, try adding your favorite apple variety.
I love using the ripe, fresh tomatoes, and select varieties I would also eat out of hand. They really are the star here! This tomato juice tastes a lot like a fresh ripe tomato. You can add spiciness with some hot sauce, or anything else you’d like. It can even taste like a Bloody Mary.
This recipe is meant to be consumed fresh and not canned. This recipe differs from a traditional tomato juice or tomato sauce recipe that is used for cooking like in soups and stews.
I suppose you could can this recipe if you really wanted to, but that’s not how the recipe was developed. For home canning, you’ll have to follow all the proper procedures including using a hot water bath, quart jars, and maybe even some citric acid. I am not a canning expert!
Most research shows that cooked tomatoes have more health benefits than raw tomatoes, but raw tomatoes are incredibly healthy too! They are a nice source of fiber, vitamin C, folate, and potassium.
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Tomato Juice Recipe Using Fresh Tomatoes
Fresh Tomato Vegetable Juice is a healthy and tasty beverage that is the perfect way to use up extra tomatoes and veggies from the garden. Serve it chilled or over ice for a refreshing and nutritious drink.
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
Ingredients
- 6 medium tomatoes, cored and quartered
- 1 celery stalk
- 2 carrots
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup water (if using a blender)
- 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce or your favorite hot sauce (optional)
- Ice cubes (optional, for serving)
Instructions
- Cut the produce into large pieces that will fit through the feeding tube of a juicer. If you will be using a blender to make your juice, then cut your produce into smaller pieces than if you are using a juicer.
- If you are using a juicer, then run the pieces through the juicer. Collect the juice and stir in the salt and Tabasco sauce. Chill or serve right away (I like it best served cold over ice cubes).
- If you are using a food processor or blender, add the tomatoes, celery, and carrots to the base. Add ¾ cup of water. Blend or process on high for 20-30 seconds, or until the mixture is smooth.
- Then, pour the blended juice through a nut milk bag, squeezing it from the top down to drain the juice into a pitcher. Alternatively, you can pour the blended mixture through a fine mesh sieve, using a spatula to gently push the liquid through the sieve. Discard the collected pulp, or save it and use it for another purpose.
- Stir in the salt and Tabasco sauce (optional) into the tomato juice. Chill the juice before serving, or serve it right away over ice cubes.
Notes
- Fresh juice is best served right after it’s made. But, it can be stored in a covered container in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
- Try to use ripe tomatoes for this recipe for the most flavor.
- If you don’t want any spiciness to the flavor of your juice, leave out the hot sauce.
- This recipe is very versatile! You can adjust or adapt the types of vegetables that you blend with the tomatoes. Feel free to use additional ingredients such as flat-leaf parsley, cilantro, beets, and even an apple to add additional sweetness.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Category: Drinks
- Method: Blender
- Cuisine: Healthy
- Diet: Vegan
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 48
- Sugar: 6.5 g
- Sodium: 131.5 mg
- Fat: 0 g
- Saturated Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 9.3 g
- Fiber: 1.8 g
- Protein: 1.9 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
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Can you freeze this fresh tomato juice?
Yes but you’ll get the most nutrition drinking it after making it. 🙂
I need specific information. Your recipe looks very fresh. I need info of how much of each ingredients to put in…! I would really appreciate a lot for your amazing recipe.
I think you missed the recipe card at the bottom of the post which includes the specifics. 🙂
Yes, got it. I will try this recipe as my next experiment. Well, can I use apple or any other sweet fruit in it?
Yes you can try some apple if you want to add some sweetness.
This is my favorite way to use up extra summer tomatoes! So, so good.