How to Make Fruit Drinks

When hot weather rolls around, nothing quite quenches your thirst like a cold fruit drink. All you need is the fruit of your choice and a blender. Although you can use ginger ale or carbonated water to make fruit drinks, to get the full effect of healthy goodness, you should just use fruit juices. This is a simple and delicious treat that you and your family can make and enjoy on any day of the year.

Things You'll Need

• Sharp knife
• Seedless watermelon
• 3 bananas
• Blender
• Gallon pitcher
• 1 cup unsweetened pineapple juice
• 1 cup unsweetened orange juice
• 6 large strawberries
• 1 can pineapple chunks
• Long handled spoon

Instructions

1. Cut the watermelon in half and then into small cubes, enough to fill 8 cups. Next, peel and cut 2 of the bananas into small chunks. You can use any kind of watermelon you want, but you'll have to take out the seeds first.

2. Put the watermelon cubes and the banana chunks in the blender and puree. Pour the watermelon and banana juice into a gallon pitcher, along with the pineapple juice and orange juice.

3. Wash the strawberries in cold water. Take off the tops, and slice the strawberries into small pieces. Peel and cut up the last banana into small pieces.

4. Open the can of pineapple chunks, and drain the juice. Fresh pineapple can be used instead of canned.

5. Add the cut up strawberries and bananas and the pineapple chunks to the pitcher of juice. You can add the juice to the pitcher if more of a pineapple taste is wanted. Just remember that the juice from the can of pineapple chunks may be sweetened with sugar.

6. Stir gently to mix all of the juices and fruits in the pitcher together. Put a lid on the pitcher, and let it sit in the fridge for 2 hours. This will allow the juice to get cold and the fruit chunks to become somewhat soft.

7. Pour the fruit drink into glasses and drink from a straw. Remember to keep a spoon handy for the fruit pieces. If you'd rather have a smooth fruit drink, just blend all of the fruit before adding the juices.

Tips & Warnings

• You can add any kind of fruit or fruit juice to the mixture as you want as long as it taste good. For a thicker drink, add ice cream, yogurt or crushed ice to the juice. Fill an ice tray with fruit juice and freeze them. Then add to your fruit drink.

References

• Four-Fruit Drink

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish