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EXTRACTING JUICE FROM VEGETABLES
Vegetable juices contain valuable nutrients and fibre just like fruit juices. Vitamins and
mineral salts consequently promote good health.
Apart from drinking, vegetable juices are particularly suitable for flavouring and refining
soups and sauces.
Extraction product Steaming
time in
minutes
Preparation of extraction
product
Cucumbers 45 Peel and cut cucumbers
into pieces
Carrots 60 Peel and grate
Radishes 60 Wash, clean, grate
Beetroot 60 Wash, do not peel, grate
Asparagus
(with waste and peel)
60 Wash and peel, grate
cut waste into small pieces
Celery 60 Wash stalks and leaves,
cut into small pieces
Spinach (unfertilised only) 45 Wash well and cut into pieces
Tomatoes 45 Wash and cut into small pieces
Onions 60 Extract juice with skin,
clean well and cut into pieces
EXTRACTING JUICE FROM HERBS
Juice can be extracted from vegetables and herbs together in any combination depending
on what is available.
Suitable examples arecarrots,celery stalks and celery leaves,parsley greenery and parsley
roots, onions, tomatoes, lovage and cabbage leaves. Or tomatoes, radishes, onions, dill,
tarragon, garlic cloves, asparagus and stinging nettles. Or Savoy cabbage, carrots, kohl-
rabi, celery stalks, leeks, tomatoes, dandelions, burnet saxifrage and horseradish.
Extraction product Steaming
time in
minutes
Preparation of extraction
product
Watercress / cress 60 Wash in mild vinegar water
Dandelion 60 Use young leaves
Wash well and cut into pieces
Parsley 60 Wash
Burnet saxifrage 60 Wash carefully
Sage 60 Wash carefully, allow to drain
Lovage 60 Wash carefully
Sorrel 60 Wash and cut into pieces
Chervil 60 Wash carefully
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PL
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BG
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UK
F
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SRB
MAK
HR
RS
RU
DK
NL
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