Fresh, bright, and straightforward to put together, Pomegranate Juice Recipe is a world beverage made with simple everyday ingredients in about 30 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 30 minutes
  • Cook time: 1 minutes
  • Total time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 4
  • Category: Beverage
  • Cuisine: world

Ingredients

  • 1 kg pomegranate ((about 5 large))
  • 1 medium lemon ((optional))
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt ((optional) (skip if making for babies))

Method

How to deseed pomegranate

  1. Rinse the pomegranates under running water. Angle a paring knife downward, close to the crown of the pomegranate and cut off across the crown to remove it. Cut off ¼ inch of the bottom, so the pomegranate can sit stable on the counter.
  2. Make a shallow cut on the skin and divide each pomegranate to 4 segments/sections. Pry open the segments to separate them.
  3. Method 1 - Nudge out the arils with your fingers, discarding any pale membrane. Have a bowl ready to hold the loosened arils while you work on each segment.
  4. Method 2 - Alternately you may immerse one segment at a time in a large bowl of dechlorinated/clean water and remove the pomegranate arils under the water. Once you are done with all the segments, drain the water and remove any rinds.

How to make Pomegranate Juice

  1. Add the seeds to a blender jar along with salt. Squeeze the lemon juice (optional) into the blender.
  2. Pulse a few times, briefly for 10 to 15 seconds, you want to make sure the seeds are still mostly intact but the juice around the seeds is released. Crushing the seeds will make the juice gritty. [But the seeds have medicinal values so we always crush them and pass through a very fine strainer. so it is up to you]
  3. Place a fine mesh strainer over a large bowl and transfer the juice. It is important to use a fine strainer or a thin cheese cloth if you do not want the juice to be gritty.
  4. Press the pulp against the strainer with the back of a spoon to squeeze out every bit of fresh juice.
  5. Drink your pomegranate juice immediately as is, store in the refrigerator for later culinary uses, or dilute with seltzer water to stretch the juice further. If it is too strong for your taste, you may mix it with other fruit juices or plain water.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.