Fruit slushes
Classic cherry slush
The seaside favourite made at home: cherry squash, water and enough sugar to slush properly.
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Fruit slushes
Apple & strawberry frozen juice
Just juice and fruit: apple juice with strawberry purée, on the Frozen Juice setting.
- Batch
- about 1.75 litres
- Serves
- 7 × 250 ml
- Setting
- Ninja SLUSHi: Frozen Juice · Tower Slushie Fusion: Slush
Ninja’s Frozen Juice preset is designed for naturally sweet drinks such as orange or apple juice. Bear in mind the NHS counts the sugar in fruit juice as “free sugars”, the kind we should cut down on — so this is still a treat.
Ingredients
- 1.5 litres 100% apple juice, chilled
- 250 ml strawberry purée (blended and sieved strawberries)
Allergens to watch: None of the 14 regulated allergens. Always check the labels of the brands you use.
Method
- Blend hulled strawberries and sieve out the seeds.
- Stir the purée into the chilled apple juice.
- Pour into the machine below the maximum fill line.
- Run the Frozen Juice setting (or Slush on machines without it).
Sugar check
There is no added sugar here, so the juice must do the job: check that your apple juice label shows at least 4 g sugars per 100 ml (5 g for Tower).
Tips
- Cloudy apple juice gives a softer, fuller texture than clear.
- Chill everything in the fridge first. Makers say the time to slush depends on how cold the ingredients are to start with.
Sources for the rules we followed
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