Lauki juice (Bottle gourd Juice)
Lauki juice recipe - Healthy detox juice made from bottle gourd vegetable with cilantro and mint leaves.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 11 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 ½ cups Lauki (bottle gourd or dudhi) (peeled and roughly chopped)
- ¼ cup Mint leaves (packed)
- ¼ cup Cilantro or Coriander leaves (packed)
- ¼ inch piece Ginger
- 1 tablespoon Lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon Black salt (Kala namak)
- Salt to taste
- ¼ teaspoon Black pepper powder
- 1 ½ cups Chilled Water ((if not chilled add few ice cubes))
Instructions
- 1
First wash the lauki, peel the skin and discard. Cut into cubes.
- 2
Taste a small piece of lauki and make sure that it is not tasting bitter. If tastes bitter then DO NOT make juice from that.
- 3
Take that into the blender along with ginger.
- 4
Add mint leaves and coriander leaves.
- 5
Freshly squeeze the lemon juice.
- 6
Also add black salt, regular salt and black pepper powder.
- 7
Add about ½ cup of water. And blend it into smooth puree or paste.
- 8
Now add remaining water. Blend it again to incorporate well.
- 9
Now strain the juice using stainer.
- 10
Using spoon or spatula, mash the mixture into the strainer and get most juice out of it.
- 11
Pour this juice into individual serving glass and serve