Recipe for overripe cucumber ice cubes
Here's what you can do with overripe cucumbers: make ice cubes!
Equipment
- Ice cube trays as many as you have
- 1 Food processor or blender something to blend cucumbers with
- Cheesecloth
Ingredients
- Yellow-skinned Cucumbers Overripe
- Green, regular cucumber optional
Instructions
- Start by washing and peeling your overripe cucumbers. Then chop as coarsely as needed to fit your food processor or blender.
- Blend the cucumber chunks in batches to fit your food processor. Set the food processor to the highest setting with your blender blade, and blend the overripe cucumbers until they’re pulverized to mush. It took me about 1 minute of blending per batch.
- Open and cut your cheesecloth so that you have a two-ply layer about 1ft square, and lay it out over a large bowl. I used a 2 liter Pyrex measuring bowl. Pour the blended cucumber into the cheesecloth, taking care to contain the cucumber mass inside the cloth. If you need to, process the blended cucumber in batches.
- Twist and squeeze the cheese cloth over the bowl to extract the juices. You can press and squeeze the cloth as much as you want to extract juice. I was able to reduce 8 cucumbers into about 1-1.5 cups of dry matter after all the juice was extracted.
- Next pour the juice into ice cube trays and freeze. When solidified, drop the cubes into drinks and enjoy. :)
