Orange & Carrot Juice

I'm not a coffee person but I love fruit juices and enjoy drinking them in the afternoons.

Today when I was fishing to make some juice, I remembered the carrot juice that I saw in Sharmilee's blog and wanted to try it out immediately. So ventured into the kitchen and accidentally noticed the oranges in the basket and instantly cooked up another version of juice. :)

I totally loved both the versions and they tasted so different and nice :)

When I planned to click pics, I recollected the flower made by Smita in her last post and gave it a try but with a totally different look. :) My mom fell in love with those cute carrot flowers ;)

Ingredients:

Carrots - 2
Orange - 2
Honey - for taste
Brown sugar - for taste
Cinnamon powder - a pinch

Method:

Extract juice from orange and filter it.

Grate the carrots or chop them finely. Add it to the blender along with some water and puree it. Filter the puree using a strainer to get clear carrot juice. Do this twice or even trice by adding water to get extract from the carrots.

Now mix both the juices and stir in honey, sugar and cinnamon powder. Stir until the sugar dissolves and serve it cold :)

Happy making :)

Alternative Recipe:

Recipe source: Sharmis Passion

Puree carrots along with a piece of ginger by adding some water to it. Strain the pulp to get clear juice.

Squeeze few tsp of lemon and add it to the juice. Stir in some sugar and a pinch of salt to make yummy carrot juice.

Tips:

You can enjoy the juice with just honey and skip the sugar.

You can also skip honey and add a pinch of salt and pepper to the juice and have it as a spicy version.

Puree papaya and mix the juice with this juice to get a mocktail version.

Flower making tips:

Carefully Peel long strips of carrot using the peeler. Initially the strips will be thin and once you keep peeling the strips will be wide.

Take the wide strips first and fold them into two and punch them into a tooth pick or a skewer. Do the same with five strips of the same width to make one layer of the flower. Move the strips to form a flower shape. Once done, go on with another layer of the flower using smaller strips of carrots.

Finally poke in a cherry on top to seal the flower :)

I am happy to send this post as an entry to Rumana Rawat's "Treat to eyes" event.

I am also sending my carrot flowers to "Create n Carve" event which originated in Nayana's blog.