Red Tomato Juice

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    five

    3 cup 24 fl oz 700 ml ) bottles
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cuisines of Odesa: A Ukrainian Cookbook

By Maria Kalenska

Published 2026

  • About

I think tomato juice is a lot more popular in Ukraine and Eastern Europe than in the UK or America (and not as part of a cocktail!). Children often drink it alongside a meal. In Natalia’s family this thick, sweet-and-sour juice is one of their favorite drinks. She grows a certain variety of tomatoes at her little summer cottage specifically for making the juice. Every August and September she harvests tomatoes when they’re very ripe and bottles many liters of juice. Her dau