Remains after juice has been extracted. There’s two days output here, about 250g.
Avoiding food waste is a hobbyhorse of mine – big soup maker – but every day now I throw away something which I’m sure could be used in some tasty recipe. It results from every day drinking a glass of juice from beetroot, apple, carrot and ginger. I did promise you a foodie post a few days ago.
No, I have not begun to believe in miracle cures but it can’t do me any harm, probably some good, and tastes good. It’s also really easy to make thanks to a Moulinex ‘Super Juicer’. However, it seems a sin to throw away the semi-dried solids which remain after juice is extracted. I have wondered about just subsituting it for the carrot in a carrot cake recipe, or even for the beetroot in a beetroot/chocolate cake. However, I thought I’d ask all you great cook bloggers out there for suggestions before it try it.
Ingredients
I use 1 Granny Smith apple, a beetroot about the same size (or a chunk of a large one), about the same volume of carrot and about half that of ginger root to end up with a glass of juice. From this, about 125 grams (5 oz) of semi-dry mixture remains.
Any ideas?
By the way, other than the bread maker to make dough as far as the first rising, I’m not a great fan of electrical devices in the kitchen, generally preferring a bowl, knife, wooden spoon, balloon whisk and hands. But the juicer really is a revelation – two or three minutes to make a glass of juice, two or three more to clean the machine.
October 16, 2016 at 6:57 pm
Buy a goat! Ours love the leftovers from the juicer, in fact so do the rabbits and pigs.
There is some good science coming out about ginger and I believe it can be used to counter nausea, especially that caused by chemo. Another one to try and add to your diet is turmeric and pumpkin oil and seeds. I read about some trials in Australia which showed good results about the former and the latter is well known (in Austria) to counter prostrate problems, although I have never seen or read anything to support it scientifically.
October 17, 2016 at 6:24 am
Thanks Eddy. I’d love a goat but I don’t think it would be appreciated in the park (though the children would enjoy it); good litter picker though? Now if we manage to move to Romania … … Petronela has already got me on daily turmeric but I hadn’t heard about the oil and/or seeds. Chewing seeds is a favourite Romanian pastime though they’re more usually sunflower. I could put pumpkin seeds in the bread I bake rather than sunflower.