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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.

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Last modified on: December 20^th 2018

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For 1 kg 500 g, you will need:

1 12 grapefruits
2 1 kg 50 g caster sugar
3 300 g granulated sugar
Total weight: 5,430 grams

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21 min.	1 day	1 hour	1 day 1 hour 21 min.

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Stage 1 - 5 min.

Get skins from 12 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.

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.

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).

Stage 9 - 5 min.

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

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
6,950 Kcal or 29,098 Kj	24 gr	1,717 gr	0 gr
348 %	9 %	162 %	0 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
128 Kcal or 536 Kj	< 1 gr	32 gr	0 gr
6 %	<1 %	3 %	0 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 1 kg 500 g : 7.14 €

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	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Lime meringue tart, Lime confectioner's custard (pastry cream), Minted Melon, Caramel semolina pudding with raisins, Lime (or lemon) curd, ... All
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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 16^th 2017 at 17:49 (n° 1)

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