Candied Orange Peel Recipe For Holiday Sweets
A perfect topping for crackers, a special stuffing chocolates and cookies or an amazing cake decoration.
I like candied fruits , especially ones we sometimes find in the good cakes and several types of expensive chocolate. I especially like candied orange peel , because I find the best combination with the dark chocolate. And because not often you find to buy them ready-made, and not a mixture of dyes and too much sugar , I decided to do them myself.
You can use them on almost anything over a meringue and lemon tart , cake batter , muffins or cakes, over yogurt or ice cream, in cocktails and creams.
The worst part is that their preparation at home , take a lot of time , and you can not always rely on some really good citrus ( many times I came across orange color which simply wiping hands ) . If you have plenty of time and oranges :), candied orange peel is a “must” for the holiday sweets.
Candied Orange Peel Recipe
Ingredients:
- peel from 4 oranges;
- 380g sugar;
- 180ml liquid glucose.
Preparation:
1. Clean orange peel and bitter white part .
2. Put them in cold water and leave them in the refrigerator 24 hours , changing the water 3-4 times . Put orange peel to boil with 250ml cold water and let it boil . Strain and repeat this step 3 times.
3. Mix in a saucepan with 800ml water and add sugar, liquid glucose and orange peel prepared earlier. Put it on the fire and let it simmer on low heat for 15-20 minutes , until the liquid thickens and becomes translucent shells .
4. Take off the heat and let it cools down . Remove shells , cut them into thin strips and put them back into syrup. You keep thus candied peels in a jar with lid tightly closed in a refrigerator , quite a few days. If you want to use them only as decoration , remove them and they wallow in sugar, then let them dry on a rack .
Instead of orange peel can be used for any other citrus peel (lemon, grapefruit).
