How To Make Watermelon Juice

 Learn exactly how to make watermelon juice. It’s so easy; all you need is a seedless watermelon. This refreshing juice is the perfect summer beverage. 

I was hesitant to put this “recipe” on the blog because it’s so easy to make. However, I’ve been making this Watermelon Juice Recipe a few times a week since it started warming up outside, and my entire family is obsessed with it! So, I decided to show you exactly How To Make Watermelon Juice 🙂

Watermelon is the quintessential summer food. It’s cheap, fun to eat, and refreshing. Just the smell of it takes me back to childhood and brings back so many great summertime memories. I’ve only started making this Watermelon Juice this year, and I wonder why I went without it for so many years!

Why Your Body Will Love Watermelon Juice 

We all know watermelon is delicious; you’ve probably heard it’s mostly made of water. We know water is good for us, but here are a few more benefits of drinking watermelon juice!

• The obvious one is that it helps you stay hydrated. It may seem like a no-brainer, but it’s really important to stay hydrated in the heat of the summer, especially if you’re doing a lot of outdoor activities. Watermelon is 92 percent water!
• Watermelon is low in calories (only 46 calories per cup) and high in nutrients. It contains high amounts of vitamin C, vitamin A, potassium, magnesium, and Vitamin B.
• Watermelon is high in lycopene, a type of carotenoid and antioxidant that has been shown to reduce the risk of some cancers, heart disease, and blood pressure.

How To Make Watermelon Juice:

The most difficult part of making this juice is cutting the watermelon. If you’re unfamiliar with the best way to cut a watermelon, check out this video here. You can also buy a pre-cut watermelon at the grocery store, but ensure it’s seedless.

1. Cut the rind off the watermelon and then cut it into bite-size chunks. Place the watermelon in a blender and blend for about 1 minute until it’s completely liquid. You may need to help it get started at first, but eventually, it will all blend.
2. Place a mesh strainer over a large bowl and pour watermelon juice into it. Let the juice drain out. You can pick up the strainer and rock it from side to side to encourage more juice to come out but don’t use a spoon to press everything in the strainer. If you do that, it will allow some of the pulp to get through, and you don’t want that. Once there’s just pulp left in the strainer, you can dump that out and strain the rest of the juice.
3. If there are lots of bubbles on top of the juice, or if some of the pulp got through, use a spoon to scoop it off the top.  You may want to let it sit for a few minutes to let things settle down before doing this.
4. Enjoy the watermelon juice over ice and garnish with fresh herbs or a lime wedge, if desired!

Watermelon Juice Recipe Tips

• You want to make sure you get a seedless watermelon! The seedless watermelon will still have the small white seeds, but it won’t have the bigger black seeds, which you don’t want for this recipe.
• Cut your watermelon into cubes small enough for your blender to blend. I use a Vitamix, which can usually fit an entire small watermelon, but if you can’t, you can blend it in batches.
• When blending, you want all the chunks to be completely liquified. You can drink the watermelon juice without straining it if you like. I prefer not to have any watermelon pulp in my juice, though, so I strain it with a mesh strainer.
• I’ve found that some of the pulp usually makes it through the strainer. I just let it sit and drain for a minute, and then I help it a long time by rocking the strainer back and forth until what’s left in the strainer is mostly pulp. You can discard the pulp or use it in something else.
• If the watermelon juice has many bubbles or if some of the pulp has gotten through, you may want to skim it off the top with a large spoon. Then, you have your delicious and refreshing watermelon juice!

Jazzing Up This Simple, Refreshing Juice

• If you want to jazz up your watermelon juice recipe, you could add some lime juice, fresh mint, or about half a diced cucumber.
• Watermelon juice is great for making summer cocktails! Just use it as you would any other mixer.
• If you want to make a slushy watermelon, you can freeze the chunks before blending them up.

Have a question about this recipe? Ask me in the comments, and I’ll get back to you ASAP.

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Check Out Exactly How I Make It:

How To Make Watermelon Juice

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• Author: She Likes Food
• Total Time: 10 minutes
• Yield: 6 1x
• Diet: Vegan

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This easy Watermelon Juice is so refreshing and perfect for summer!

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• 1 small seedless watermelon

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Instructions

1. Cut the rind off the watermelon and then cut it into bite size chunks.  Place watermelon into a blender and blend for about 1 minutes, until it’s completely liquid.  You may need to help it get started at first but eventually it will all blend.
2. Place a mesh strainer over a large bowl and pour watermelon juice in the strainer.  Let juice drain out.  You can pick up the strainer and rock it from side to side to encourage more juice to come out but you don’t want to use a spoon to press down everything in the strainer.  If you do that it will allow some of the pulp to get through and you don’t want that.  Once it’s just pulp left in the strainer you can dump that out and strain the rest of the juice.
3. If there’s lots of bubbles on top of the watermelon juice, or if some of the pulp got though, use a spoon to scoop it off the top.  You may want to let it sit for a few minutes to let things settle down before doing this.
4. Enjoy watermelon juice over ice and garnish with fresh herbs or a lime wedge, if desired!

Notes

You can skip the straining step if you like!  I just prefer no pulp to be in my juice, but if you don’t mind you can enjoy it right out of the blender.

Store watermelon juice in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.

• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Category: Drink, Vegan, Gluten Free
• Method: Blender
• Cuisine: American