How To Prepare Orange Peel

Author: Alexander Bruni Time for reading: ~2 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022

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Orange peel is a great natural flavor. It is added when cooking meat, fish, poultry, fruits, vegetables. It is impossible to imagine various pastries without zest: buns, muffins, biscuits, charlottes, manniks, puddings.

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It is used to flavor alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, jams, compotes, jelly, sweet sauces. You can buy ready-made dried orange or lemon peel in supermarkets.

But it turns out that preparing the zest of an orange or lemon is quite simple. Moreover, this does not require any additional costs - we often buy oranges anyway, especially in winter. It is enough when using oranges for food, to harvest the zest itself. It is stored for a very long time and you can always use your workpiece when you need it.

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Ingredients:

Orange
Sugar

We will need:

Grater
Bowl
Knife
vegetable peeler
jar with lid
A spoon
Freezer bags
Dryer for vegetables and fruits
Cutting board

How to prepare orange zest step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

For work, we need oranges, a knife, a cutting board, a bowl, a grater, sugar, a vegetable dryer, a jar, a spoon.

Step 2

Before work, rinse the oranges well with a brush, and then dip them in hot water for 15-20 seconds, remove and wipe dry.

Step 3

Grate the zest with a fine grater. Remember that you should only peel off the top colored layer and leave the bottom white layer of the orange untouched.

Step 4

Then you can decompose the zest into bags for freezing, squeezing the air out of the bags as much as possible, and send it to the freezer for storage.

Step 5

You can grind the grated zest with sugar in the proportion: 1 part of the zest - 3 parts of sugar.

Step 6

Put the mass tightly in a jar, close the lid and send it to the refrigerator. Use as needed. Such zest can be stored for a very long time and you can constantly add the next portion of the zest with sugar in the same jar as the next portion is prepared in 1-2 weeks.

Step 7

You can remove a thin layer of orange skin with a paring knife.

Step 8

Arrange it on the grates of the dryer for vegetables and fruits.

Step 9

Dry until done. The zest should become brittle. This takes approximately 3-4 hours.

Step 10

Further, such a zest can be folded into a tightly closed jar and ground as needed, or immediately grind the entire portion on a coffee grinder to a powdery state and put the zest powder into a tightly closed jar.

How To Prepare Orange Peel

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How to prepare orange zest step by step instructions with photos

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