Candied grapefruit peel


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.
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Last modified on: December 20th 2018
For 500 g, you will need:
  • 1 grapefruits 4 grapefruits
  • 2 caster sugar 350 g caster sugar
  • 3 granulated sugar 100 g granulated sugar
  • Total weight: 1,810 grams

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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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Stage 1 - 5 min.
Candied grapefruit peel
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.

Stage 2 - 7 min.
Candied grapefruit peel
Cut each piece of peel into strips about 0.5 cm or ¼ inch wide.

Stage 3
Candied grapefruit peel
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
Candied grapefruit peel
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.

Stage 5 - 4 min.
Candied grapefruit peel
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
Candied grapefruit peel
Cook slowly over gentle heat, stiring from time to time...

Stage 7
Candied grapefruit peel
... until there is hardly any liquid left.

Stage 8 - 12 hours
Candied grapefruit peel
Spread out on a cooking parchment on a baking sheet.

Leave overnight or longer, until they become a bit firm (to your taste).

Stage 9 - 5 min.
Candied grapefruit peel
Then roll in a little caster sugar with a fork to coat them lightly.

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 recipe8 RDI=3 %570 RDI=50 %02,320 RDI=120 %9,700 RDI: 120 %
Per 100 g030 RDI=3 %0130 RDI=6 %540 RDI: 6 %
The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man
How much will it cost?
  • For 500 g : 2.40 €

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  • My mom has a traditional way of cooking it, and I love it. My mom keep the white layer of grapefruit too along with skin.she soaked it into water and change water till bitterness is gone, she then simply fried it with garlic, sugar and soy sauce, delicious..
    Posted by Ling february 16th 2017 at 17:49 n° 1

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