On a hot summer day, nothing relieves thirst as well as a drink made from oranges. In addition, such a drink can perfectly replace store-bought juices and, of course, carbonated sweet water. The orange drink contains no emulsifiers, dyes, or preservatives. It consists entirely of natural ingredients. To prepare a drink from oranges, you will need a little time and ingredients that can be purchased at any grocery store.
Orange nectar
Oranges are those fruits that can be purchased in the store at any time.
A drink made from them perfectly quenches thirst on a hot day and gives strength. During the cold period, it allows you to fill the body with essential vitamins and improve immunity. To prepare the drink you will need:
- Boiled but chilled water - 9 liters.
- Medium-sized oranges - 4 pieces.
- Granulated sugar - 1 kilogram.
- Citric acid - 30 grams.
Fruit preparation
To prepare a drink from 4 oranges per 9 liters of water, you should prepare all the ingredients. The fruits must first be washed and then doused with boiling water. After this, the oranges should be thoroughly wiped and put in the refrigerator for two hours. If possible, the fruit should be kept in the cold overnight. This procedure removes bitterness and also removes wax from orange peels. Prepared fruits should be cut and then passed through a meat grinder.
Squeezing the juice
So how to make a drink from oranges? The finished mixture should be filled with chilled water. This will require three liters. After this, the drink should stand for 10 minutes.
All large particles should be removed from such a composition. To do this, pass it through a colander and then through a piece of gauze folded in several layers. But it is best to use a sieve. After all, the pulp will easily clog the holes in the fabric, then straining the juice will be very difficult. In addition, there may be small pieces of thread in the drink.
Final stage
A drink made from 4 oranges per 9 liters is almost ready. The resulting juice should be diluted with water. The volume must be increased to 9 liters. After this, you can add sugar and citric acid to the drink. The composition must be mixed and left for about an hour. The finished drink can be poured into cans or bottles and placed in the refrigerator.
Orange Cinnamon Drink
Finding natural juice in the store is almost impossible. However, it can be prepared at home. Homemade orange drink differs in composition and, of course, in quality and taste. For it you will need:
- Several large oranges.
- Sugar - 100 grams.
- Cinnamon - ½ teaspoon.
- Warm, boiled water - 2 cups.
How to make a drink from oranges
This recipe is somewhat similar to the previous one. But thanks to cinnamon, the drink becomes more aromatic. First you need to prepare the fruit. Oranges should be washed, chopped and juiced. After this, pour water into a deep container, add cinnamon and sugar. The orange skin also needs to be cut into pieces and added to the rest of the ingredients. The resulting mixture should be cooked over low heat, stirring regularly. The orange drink, the recipe for which is very simple, needs to be brought to a boil and simmered for another 15 minutes.
The finished broth must be filtered through a sieve or cheesecloth. After this, you need to add fresh fruit juice to the mixture. This drink is served chilled or hot.
"Orange Blues"
This drink is prepared from frozen oranges. The taste is simply amazing.
- Oranges - 2 pieces.
- Cold but boiled water - 4.5 liters.
- Granulated sugar - ½ kilogram.
- Citric acid - 8 grams.
Cooking steps
To make a drink from frozen oranges, you should boil water in advance and cool it. If there are no frozen fruits, then you need to wash fresh ones and rinse with boiling water. After this, the oranges should be placed in the freezer. To ensure they freeze well and quickly, you can cut them into several parts.
Prepared fruits should be passed through a meat grinder. The resulting slurry must be transferred to a saucepan and filled with water.
This one will take 1.5 liters of liquid. The drink should be stirred and left for a while.
Now you can prepare the syrup. To do this, add sugar to 3 liters of water and stir thoroughly. You need to pour the fruit pulp drink into the syrup and then strain. Add citric acid to the orange drink and stir.
"Orange Explosion"
This orange drink, the recipe for which is given below, has an amazing taste. Nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon give it a unique flavor. For preparation you will need:
- Oranges - 4 pieces.
- Warm boiled water - 250 milliliters.
- Sugar - a tablespoon.
- Cloves - 3 buds.
- Cinnamon - 1 stick.
- Nutmeg - to taste.
How to make Orange Burst
This drink made from 4 oranges is perfect for the holiday table. Fruits should be divided into parts and juice should be squeezed out of them. The resulting drink should be diluted with chilled boiled water and granulated sugar, cloves and cinnamon should be added to it. The container with the mixture must be put on fire and cooked until the first signs of boiling appear. It is important not to miss this moment. After this, reduce the heat to low and cook for a few more minutes. This preparation process is similar to brewing coffee. At the end of preparation, remove the cinnamon stick and cloves from the drink.
In conclusion
The finished mixture must be mixed well. When the orange drink has cooled a little, you should strain it. To do this, you can use a sieve or gauze folded in several layers. The finished drink can be poured into glasses and served, after adding a little nutmeg to it. It is worth noting that “Orange Explosion” tastes like mulled wine.
Alcoholic drink with oranges
For preparation you will need:
- Juice from fresh oranges - 400 milliliters.
- Citric acid - 1 pinch.
- Orange liqueur - 4 large spoons.
- Powdered sugar - 10 grams.
- Orange - ½ piece.
- Cinnamon and sugar - to taste.
- Fresh mint.
Preparation
To make a homemade orange drink, you don't need any special culinary skills. It is enough to follow the recipe. Squeeze 400 milliliters of juice from oranges and pour water and liqueur into it. After this, you need to add sugar and citric acid to the mixture. The resulting composition must be thoroughly mixed several times. You need to add more liquor to the drink and place it in a cool place. It needs to brew.
Place several pieces of edible ice into the wine glasses, and then pour in the prepared orange drink. That's all, all that remains is to decorate. To do this, you need to cut the orange into slices and secure it to the edge of the wine glass. After this, the drink should be sprinkled with cinnamon and powdered sugar. Finally, you can decorate it with mint leaves.
Cocktail for children
For preparation you will need:
- Pasteurized milk - ½ cup.
- Orange juice - 30 milligrams.
- Dark or milk chocolate.
How to make a cocktail
You need to squeeze the juice out of the oranges and pour it into the blender bowl. Here you need to add milk and beat everything. The finished drink can be poured into a glass and sprinkled with chocolate, previously crushed using a fine grater. You can use nuts or mint leaves for decoration.
Drink "Freshness"
For preparation you will need:
- Sugar syrup - 20 milliliters.
- Orange juice - 80 milliliters.
Juice should be squeezed out of fresh fruits and combined with sugar syrup. The composition must be mixed. The finished drink can be poured into glasses and decorated with slices of fresh fruit.
Finally
You can make not only juice from oranges, but also other more delicious drinks that will quench your thirst, strengthen your immune system and surprise your guests with its originality. This does not require much product or time. In addition, the drink recipes are so simple that even an inexperienced housewife can handle them.
There are several similar drinks on the site, one is even in my diary. But I am sure that this option will take root with you. Because it is the most budget-friendly, the fastest, the most ergonomic... The energy and monetary costs of preparation are minimal, since in 5 minutes you can easily prepare 3 liters of a delicious drink from 1 orange, which the whole family will definitely enjoy. Plus a bonus - the option with cloves.
Ingredients for “The Best Orange Drink”:
Recipe for “The Best Orange Drink”:
First we will prepare the concentrate for our drink. We will need all the ingredients except water. The orange must be washed thoroughly. Important: it must be thin-skinned. Thin-peel oranges are juicier, more flavorful, and have less of the loose white layer underneath the rind (albedo).
Pour sugar and citric acid into a convenient jug. Cut off the top and bottom of the orange and cut it into pieces. The beauty of the pieces is not important, the presence of seeds, in principle, too.
The longest step in preparing the drink: all this must be crushed with an immersion blender. And not just chop it, but as finely as possible, into a single thick mass. To make it easier for the blender to cope with the task, add a little water.
While you are grinding all this, the sugar and citric acid will have time to dissolve. The result is a delicious and aromatic concentrate. Then we proceed as we please. You can leave it as a concentrate, or you can pour it into a 3-liter jar and fill it to the top with cold water. Personally, I divide the portion in half and pour it through a funnel into 2 plastic bottles, which I then top up with water and put in the refrigerator. By the way, it’s delicious to soak cakes with the concentrate. You can edit the acid and sugar to suit your needs.
That, in fact, is all the wisdom. By the way, 3 liters of drink is not a dogma. You can dilute it less, it's a matter of taste. Here is a drink diluted 3 times.
By the way, the color of the drink depends on the color of the crust itself. In any case, the drink will be tasty and aromatic, and also with pulp). Here he is. diluted to 3 liters. We like this particular option: it’s not cloying and tastes no worse than store-bought orange juice. Calculate the price yourself)
And - an option for brave lovers of experiments. I'm sharing. In the evening, you can stud the orange with cloves. Like that. By the way, an orange studded in this way is an excellent air odorant if it is located close to a heat source. Orange, if not used, dries to complete hardness and becomes an excellent interior decoration.
Sorry, I got distracted... I return to the drink. Leave the orange studded with cloves overnight and remove the cloves in the morning. And then follow the recipe. As a result, the drink will taste more exotic.
In a word - cook and drink to your health!
Bon appetit and orange mood to you and your family!
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Is it possible to get a bucket of juice from four large oranges? Of course not, you say. You can't squeeze that much juice out of four oranges. And it is true.
But preparing 9 liters of an orange drink that tastes just as good as juice is very possible. This recipe will come in handy if you are expecting guests, especially children. They will definitely like the orange drink. And it will be more useful than various Fants and Cols.
Ingredients for making the drink:
- 4 large oranges or 5 medium ones;
- 1 kg of sugar;
- juice of one lemon.
Making an orange drink
Take four large (or five medium) oranges. Wash them thoroughly under running water, then scald them with boiling water. You can keep them in boiling water for a little while, half a minute or a minute. Then wipe it dry and put it in the freezer overnight.
The next morning (or when you prepare an orange drink), remove the frozen oranges from the freezer, where they spent the whole night, and cut them into several parts (as convenient for you). I cut the oranges into 8 pieces, so they fit better in the meat grinder.
Safety precautions! Frozen oranges are difficult to cut immediately. So be very careful when trying to make the first cut. For this purpose, it is better to use a short knife with a thick, rigid blade. After the first cut is made, further oranges are easier to cut.
Pass the frozen oranges through a meat grinder. You will immediately have a question: this is how the juice will flow from the oranges. No, it will not. After all, our oranges were frozen precisely so that there would be no juice when chopping. This is such an interesting trick.
When all the oranges are twisted, pour the resulting mass with three liters of boiled cold water, mix and let it brew for 10 minutes.
Next, strain the mixture through a colander or cheesecloth to remove large particles. Add another 6 liters of boiled chilled water to the strained orange drink. Add 1 kg of sugar to this and mix well. You can adjust the sweetness yourself (as you like). If you like a less sweet drink, add as much sugar as you need. We also add the juice of one small lemon.
Mix everything well. Let's check the taste of the orange drink again. If you are satisfied with the taste, then pour it into three liter jars or simply leave it to infuse in a clean container for 1 hour.
As a result, you get 9 liters of orange drink. In one evening of any holiday, guests will drink the entire drink prepared by you! Even at the end they will ask for the recipe. Because an orange drink prepared at home is much tastier and healthier than a store-bought one.
Bon appetit!
Step 1: prepare the oranges.
We rinse the oranges well under running water and, without cutting off the skin, transfer the ingredient to a cutting board. Using a kitchen knife, cut the citrus fruits into two equal parts.
Then, using a manual juicer, squeeze the juice out of each orange half. Pour the juice into a free bowl or jug. 
Place the squeezed orange peels and pulp on a cutting board and, using a kitchen knife, randomly cut them into small pieces. Step 2: prepare the orange drink.
Place the orange peels and pulp cut into pieces into an empty pan. Pour sugar, cinnamon into the same container and fill everything with water. Then, using a tablespoon, mix all the ingredients together. Place the pan with the ingredients on high heat. After the water in the container boils, turn the heat to medium and cook the liquid orange mixture for 15 minutes. After this time, turn off the burner. Before we strain our citrus mass, we’ll take a colander and cover its bottom with gauze cloth, and place a pan under the bottom into which our liquid will drain. 
Carefully pour the citrus liquid from the container through a colander into the pan. 
When the liquid mass has all drained into the bowl, collect the gauze and manually squeeze out all the pulp. 
We take the remaining orange peel out of the gauze and throw it away, since we will no longer need it, but pour the resulting liquid into a container with pre-squeezed orange juice. Using a tablespoon, mix everything until smooth. 
Then, using a watering can, pour the orange drink into an empty jar or other container and cover it tightly with a lid. After our finished drink has cooled completely, put it in the refrigerator. Step 3: Serve the orange drink.
Serve the orange drink, preferably after cooling it. Pour the drink from the jar into a decanter or pour it immediately into glasses or glass glasses. The glasses can be decorated with an orange slice, and you can also put pieces of ice in the glasses. However, you can also drink our delicious aromatic drink warm or hot with the addition of honey or alcoholic beverages. Whoever likes it. This tonic drink goes well with both main courses and dessert. Enjoy your meal! The orange drink recipe is for two people. Usually for one serving you take one orange, 50 grams of sugar and one glass of water. Based on these proportions, you can calculate the required amount of ingredients so that all your guests can enjoy the orange drink.
If the oranges from which you prepare an orange drink are too sweet, then you can add half a lemon to them. Thanks to this ingredient, our drink will acquire a slightly pleasant sour taste.
Before serving, you can add a little chilled mineral sparkling water to the orange drink.
If you are allergic to citrus fruits, then it is better to refrain from drinking orange drink or make the drink less concentrated by adding more water.
To prepare an orange drink, use only fresh, ripe citrus fruits, as they are not only sweeter, but also juicier.
In addition to cinnamon, you can add a little clove to the drink. It will also give the drink a unique aroma and complement the taste of oranges.
If you don’t have a manual juicer at hand, then you can squeeze the juice out of the citrus with a fork or just with your hands.
Both on a hot summer day and on a frosty winter evening, a drink made from oranges will be an excellent treat.
It perfectly quenches thirst, improves immunity, and saturates the body with vitamins. In addition, unlike juices and carbonated drinks, it does not contain dyes, preservatives, emulsifiers and other chemical elements.
Orange drink at home - general principles of preparation
It is noteworthy that the products included in the drink can be purchased at any store throughout the year. The main thing is to choose the right oranges: they should not be spoiled, sweet, not sour.
Before cooking, citrus fruits should be thoroughly washed and rinsed with boiling water to remove any remaining wax and remove any bitterness. Afterwards, depending on the recipe, either chop or cut them and squeeze the juice out of them.
Additional ingredients for an orange drink can be plain water, alcohol, dairy products, as well as ingredients such as sugar, spices, mint and others.
Recipe 1. Orange drink at home: nectar
From just five not very large oranges you can prepare more than 10 liters of a refreshing, tasty drink. Moreover, the recipe is so simple that, having prepared nectar in this way once, you will return to it again and again.
Ingredients:
10 liters of boiled chilled water;
Five medium sized oranges;
A kilogram of sugar;
30 grams of citric acid.
Preparation:
1. First, boil and completely cool the required amount of water.
2. Wash the oranges thoroughly without peeling them. Place in a large bowl and pour boiling water over it for five minutes. Afterwards we dry it and put it in the refrigerator for several hours, this way we will get rid of the bitterness inherent in citrus zest.
3. Remove the settled oranges and cut into large pieces along with the peel. Pass it through a meat grinder.
4. Fill the aromatic mass with three liters of water and let it brew for ten minutes.
5. Strain the nectar first through a colander, then through a sieve.
6. Dilute the nectar with the remaining water, sugar, and citric acid.
7. Stir the drink thoroughly and leave for an hour or two until the sugar is completely dissolved.
8. Pour the finished drink into bottles and put it in the refrigerator.
From the remaining citrus mass we can make delicious jam. To do this, mix the orange pulp with sugar to taste and simmer over low heat until thickened. Place the jelly-like jam into sterilized jars. Cool and seal.
Recipe 2. Homemade orange drink: with cinnamon
The method of preparing this drink is not much different from the previous one, but thanks to cinnamon, the nectar acquires an unusual aroma and taste.
Ingredients:
Three oranges;
150 grams of granulated sugar;
Two glasses of water;
1/2 tsp. cinnamon.
Preparation:
1. Wash the oranges, cut them into two parts, squeeze the juice into a clean dry bowl in any convenient way.
2. Grind the orange peel that remains after squeezing using a grater or a sharp knife.
3. Pour water into another pan, add cinnamon and granulated sugar. We also add chopped orange zest here.
4. Cook the syrup for 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
5. Strain the finished broth through a fine sieve, mix the broth with freshly squeezed orange juice.
This orange drink, prepared at home, is an excellent “supplier” of vitamin C. You can drink it either hot or chilled.
Recipe 3. Orange drink at home: with spices
This drink option is ideal for those who don’t like to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. It is prepared instantly, it turns out incredibly aromatic, and the sour-sweet taste is perfectly refreshing and invigorating.
Ingredients:
Four oranges;
230 ml water;
50 g sugar;
Cinnamon stick;
Two pinches of nutmeg;
3-4 buds of cloves.
Preparation:
1. Cut the oranges, thoroughly washed and scalded with boiling water, into several parts and squeeze out the juice.
2. Mix the juice with boiled, cooled water, add sugar to the mixture, add a cinnamon stick (can be replaced with a teaspoon of cinnamon powder) and cloves.
3. Place the pan with the aromatic mixture on the stove. After boiling, reduce the heat to low and cook for just one minute, then remove the pan from the heat.
4. Cool the finished drink, filter through a fine sieve or gauze folded in several layers.
5. Serve sprinkled with nutmeg.
Recipe 4. Alcoholic drink made from oranges at home
Don't know what to serve as an alcoholic drink for a meeting with friends or a romantic evening? Try this orange drink recipe. There is practically no alcohol in it, it is easy to drink, and everyone will like the taste and aroma of such a treat: slightly tart, unobtrusively sweet, with a slight sourness and the freshness of mint.
Ingredients:
380 ml freshly squeezed orange juice;
Half a large or one small orange;
10 g powdered sugar;
A pinch of citric acid;
4 tbsp. l. liquor;
1 tsp. ground cinnamon;
Sugar to taste (1,2,3 spoons);
Fresh mint leaves and ice.
Preparation:
1. Squeeze the required amount of juice from large sweet oranges, mix it with a glass of boiled, cooled water and two tablespoons of liqueur.
2. Pour citric acid and sugar into the mixture. Mix thoroughly in a shaker or with a clean, dry whisk.
3. Add the remaining liqueur, stir again and place in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
4. Pour the finished orange drink into beautiful glasses filled with the desired amount of ice and decorate: sprinkle with powdered sugar mixed with cinnamon, lay out a couple of mint leaves, and place a thin slice of orange on the edge of the glass.
Recipe 5. Orange milk drink at home
A quick recipe, an excellent option for a drink with vitamins for a children's breakfast. Instead of fresh orange, you can also take regular orange juice from trusted manufacturers, but freshly squeezed nectar is definitely more beneficial.
Ingredients:
A glass of milk;
Half a sweet orange;
Milk chocolate.
Preparation:
1. Pour a glass of milk into the blender bowl and squeeze the juice from half an orange into it. Beat until foam forms. You can also use an immersion blender or a regular whisk.
2. Grate the chocolate on a fine grater.
3. Pour the orange milk drink into a large glass glass and sprinkle with chocolate chips.
4. In addition to chocolate, you can use coconut shavings and chopped lightly fried nuts for decoration.
Recipe 6. Homemade carbonated orange drink
To prepare this drink, choose regular sparkling water, not mineral water, without any additives. The recipe uses sugar syrup, it is prepared from 100 g of granulated sugar and 40 ml of water: just mix both ingredients in a small saucepan and heat until all the sugar grains are dissolved.
Ingredients:
50 ml sugar syrup;
200 grams of orange;
Bottled sparkling water.
Preparation:
1. Wash the orange thoroughly, cut it in half, and squeeze out the juice.
2. Combine the cooled sugar syrup with orange nectar.
3. Pour the resulting mixture into a glass, filling it about halfway.
4. Fill with sparkling water chilled in the refrigerator.
5. If desired, you can decorate the orange drink with fruit slices or berries.
Recipe 7. Homemade immune-boosting orange drink: with lemon and mint
Ingredients:
One orange;
Two lemons;
2.5 liters of water;
A small bunch of fresh mint;
Half a glass of sugar.
Preparation:
1. Wash and peel the orange. Squeeze the juice out of the pulp and pour boiling water over the peel for 10 minutes.
2. We also wash the lemons, cut them into two parts, and squeeze out the juice.
3. Pour water into the pan, add sugar after boiling, add orange peels and mint leaves, pour in orange juice.
4. Cook the drink over medium heat for five minutes.
5. Cool the cooked mixture, strain through a fine sieve, and mix with lemon juice.
6. Serve after cooling in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
If you don't have a juicer, you can squeeze the juice by hand. To do this, first roll the washed fruit on the table, pressing and pressing hard on it, and then cut and squeeze.
You can replace sugar in drinks with sugar or any fruit or berry syrup. For people suffering from diabetes, it is recommended to add honey as a sweetener.
If after all the manipulations you still have pulp or peel of oranges, do not rush to throw them away. You can make delicious jam from them, they can be added to pies, tarts, or simply put in tea.
In order to slightly change the aroma, taste, and color of the drink, you can add other citrus fruits along with the orange: lemons, grapefruits.
Serve orange drinks, whether regular, carbonated, dairy or alcoholic, chilled. This is how they fully reveal their aroma and taste.
But as a preventive measure against colds, it is recommended to drink a fortified drink made from oranges hot.
