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Candied grapefruit peel
Not really a dessert, more a kind of sweet. After soakiing, strips of grapefruit skin are cooked very slowly to conservethem in sugar. It's a real treat with coffee at the end of a meal.
1 day 1 hour 25 min.
Easy
2.40 €
500 g
3 IngredientsLast modified on: December 20th 2018
For 500 g, you will need:
- 1
4 grapefruits - 2
350 g caster sugar - 3
100 g granulated sugar - Total weight: 1,810 grams
Times for this recipe
Preparation: 25 min.
Resting: 1 day
Cooking: 1 hour
All in all: 1 day 1 hour 25 min.
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - ⌛ 5 min.
Get skins from 4 grapefruits , organic if possible, and clean to remove all traces of wax or other products from the skin, then rinse.
You should have 4 equal sized pieces of peel per grapefruit.
You should have 4 equal sized pieces of peel per grapefruit.
Stage 2 - ⌛ 7 min.
Cut each piece of peel into strips about 0.5 cm or ¼ inch wide.
Stage 3
If you keep some flesh of fruits with skins because you have peel fruit completely, don't remove it, actually it's better.
Stage 4 - ⌛ 12 hours
Put these strips in a pan, cover with cold water and leave overnight.
Next day, change water and leave about 4 hours longer.
Note: We do that because we want to remove excessive bitter of skins.
Next day, change water and leave about 4 hours longer.
Note: We do that because we want to remove excessive bitter of skins.
Stage 5 - ⌛ 4 min.
After this time, drain peel strips and weigh them. Then put in a pan with their weight in sugar, and their weight in water (if possible filtered or mineral to avoid the chlorine taste).
Stage 6 - ⌛ 1 hour
Cook slowly over gentle heat, stiring from time to time...
Stage 7
... until there is hardly any liquid left.
Stage 8 - ⌛ 12 hours
Spread out on a cooking parchment on a baking sheet.
Leave overnight or longer, until they become a bit firm (to your taste).
Leave overnight or longer, until they become a bit firm (to your taste).
Stage 9 - ⌛ 5 min.
Then roll in a little caster sugar with a fork to coat them lightly.
Keep in an airtight container.
Keep in an airtight container.
Remarks
It's possible to use other citrus fruit: oranges, lemons, limes and clementines.
Keeping: Several weels in a closed container.
Source: Home made.
Nutritional information
| Proteins (gr) | Carbohydrates (gr) | Fats (gr) | Energy value (in k-calories) | Energy value (in k-joules) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whole recipe | 8 RDI=3 % | 570 RDI=50 % | 0 | 2,320 RDI=120 % | 9,700 RDI: 120 % |
| Per 100 g | 0 | 30 RDI=3 % | 0 | 130 RDI=6 % | 540 RDI: 6 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 500 g : 2.40 €
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