Best tomato juice recipes?

[Nadya]

Hello all!

I've tried many times to make a satisfactory tomato-y juice, but my efforts tend not to work so well. Most of my juices end up tasting strongly of celery, and not tomatoy enough. I've spent time trying to search up raw tomato-based juices, and I haven't found any recipes I've liked (amid the masses of cooked tomato juice recipes!)

Does anyone have any tomato-y juices they'd like to share? I'm open to all ingredients, carrots, red peppers, beets, lemon, celery, cucumber, these and more have graced my tomato juices, but they jut don't hit the spot. Tomato juices that feature greens (Especially kale and/or spinach!) are a super plus. I tend to toss the juice and pulp in the blender with extra beets and some avocado to make into a raw borshch, but I'm still hoping and praying for a perfect tomato juice.

Oh, my craving for delicious tomato juice... Will someone rescue me?

[Ce]

I like tomato, garlic, cucumber, dill and lemon, it is a very mild juice that I love!

[Ce]

I do almost the same to make a spicy juice, love the jalapenos! I think the dried ones even give me more of a bang! I haven't used dried tomatoes yet. I am going to give that a try this evening, I know it sure makes all the difference any any tomato sauce using sun dried tomatoes. I never thought of doing it for my juice. Thanks Connie!

Connie said:

I think the secret to good tomato juice is adding dried tomatoes to the regular tomatoes for a more intense flavor. I use tomatoes, dried tomatoes, basil, celery, lemon juice, a pinch of salt, and a tiny piece of jalapeno. Like a virgin bloody mary. Yum!

[Nadya]

Hi Ce! I think maybe I am making my tomato juice with too many non-neutral flavours? I will try with your recipe. I was always adding celery for the natural salt in it, so that I wouldn't be tempted to salt my juice.

Connie - do you make tomato juice with a blender, or do you run it through a juicer? I had a bit of a confused moment there, how would one put dried tomatoes through a juicer?!

I have dried chile peppers, but I don't keep fresh jalapeño in the house, because I'll never finish it before it goes bad. I wonder how well jalapeño freezes?

I'm writing SDTomatoes on my shopping list right now :)

[Ce]

Nadya said:

Hi Ce! I think maybe I am making my tomato juice with too many non-neutral flavours? I will try with your recipe. I was always adding celery for the natural salt in it, so that I wouldn't be tempted to salt my juice.

Connie - do you make tomato juice with a blender, or do you run it through a juicer? I had a bit of a confused moment there, how would one put dried tomatoes through a juicer?!

I have dried chile peppers, but I don't keep fresh jalapeño in the house, because I'll never finish it before it goes bad. I wonder how well jalapeño freezes?

I'm writing SDTomatoes on my shopping list right now :)

I use a blender most of the time to make my juice, it just seems so easier and then I strain it through a nut mylk bag. I know how important celery is when doing a juice feast but it is still not my favorite, I normally juice a head of celery with a little lemon and then just drink it down. I feel like the celery has such a strong flavor I don’t like it making everything I drink taste like celery, but that is just me, I also don’t taste the salt in it to tell you the truth. I do add a little sea salt to my juice and I personally don’t worry about it, again just me. When I use jalapenos I also used dried most of the time. I soak them first and then run them through the blender with everything else.. I haven’t tried it yet but that is what I am going to do with the sun dried tomatoes also. I’ll let you know how it works out. I was going to make it this afternoon but they need to soak longer, I’ll also add the soak water to it and I am going to put a little lime in mine too! I think it will turn out great. I have no idea how jalapenos freeze. I grow them in the summer and use fresh then but the rest of the year I mostly just use the dried ones, I think they work great!

[meleakua]

My fave juice of all-time is celery, cucumber, tomato, red bell pepper, and a handful each of parsley and spinach...
yummmmmmmm! :D

that pinch o'salt sounds good in there, too.. & maybe a pinch of pepper...