Sauces, Juices and Drinks Recipes - Tomato Juice Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 kg/4 1/2 lb ripe beef tomatoes

• 1 teaspoon Italian herbs

• 2 tablespoons honey

• 2 pinches cardamom

• salt

• pepper

Serves 4

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Method:

1. Peel the tomatoes, remove the seeds and cut into small pieces.

2. Put the chopped tomatoes in a liquidizer, add 2 tablespoons of water and puree at the highest speed until the mixture has turned into juice.

3. Season the tomato juice to taste with herbs, honey, cardamom, salt and pepper.

4. Pour into a jug, cover with Clingfilm and cool in the refrigerator. Use within 24 hours.

Note: Every sip of fresh home-made tomato juice is pure pleasure! If a liquidizer is not available, the tomatoes can be chopped as finely as possible and pressed through a fine sieve with a wooden spoon.