Cold-pressed juices are the hot drink to sip this summer. Aside from simply drinking them though, here are four other ways to use them to enhance your cooking.

Orange, turmeric and cayenne pepper couscous

Add instant flavour to your couscous with cold-pressed juice. Photo by Michelle Le Grange.

Put a spin on the starchy staple by soaking it in one part stock and one part cold-pressed orange, turmeric and cayenne pepper juice. Toss with spicy chicken strips, corn, carrots and fresh coriander.

Roast carrots with carrot, apple, orange and ginger juice

Concentrate the flavour of those carrots with a little juice. Photo Dirk Pieters.

Poach rainbow carrots in one part stock and one part cold-pressed carrot, apple, orange and ginger juice, then roast with garlic butter, honey and thyme until tender.

Apple, cucumber, spinach and celery cocktails

For a refreshing cocktail with buckets of flavour, add cold-pressed juices. Photo by Jan Ras.

For those times when you need a vitamin C and mood boost, add a splash of gin to chilled cold-pressed apple, cucumber, spinach and celery juice. Serve in tumblers over crushed ice and garnish with cucumber ribbons.

Juice-based dressings

Add zing to your salad dressings with cold-pressed juices. Photo by Jan Ras.

Shake up your salad-dressing routine with new combos such as cold-pressed beetroot, apple, orange and cucumber juice with red-wine vinegar and olive oil; or apple, ginger and lemon juice with apple cider vinegar and grapeseed oil.

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Woolworths’ cold-pressed juices. Photo by Sadiqah Assur.