Hi there, I'm new on Hive and this is my very first post.
It's a recipe for a traditional Greek sweet and is sure to explode your tastebuds!
Ingredients:
5 oranges +- 1 Kg
1 cup of water
2 &1/2 cups sugar
2&1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
Directions:
Wash the oranges and then slice the orange peel in half, then in quarters and then eights top to bottom. remove the peel in strips. Eat the orange!
Cut the strips in half, across the width.
Orange peel, with the external part is bitter. This process removes most of the bitterness without bleaching out the flavour, and softens the peel.
Place peel in a saucepan with enough cold water to cover by 2 inches. Bring to the boil a cook for 5 minutes, timing from when it starts to bubble.
Drain in a strainer or colander and rinse under cold running water.
Repeat step four boiling for 3 minutes.
Repeat step 5. Total boiling time 11 minutes.
Place water and sugar in a saucepan and stir until sugar is dissolved.
Bring to a boil over high heat and cook for 5 minutes.
Add orange peel, return to a boil for about 10 minutes just until the syrup begins to thicken slightly. (it should be quite syrupy but thick enough to coat a metal spoon).
Stir in lemon juice and remove the pan from heat.
Note: You can roll the peel strips before cooking them fixing them with a wooden toothpick or roll them before placing in the jar.
Enjoy!
Cross- posted from my whaleshares account
