This yummy candied orange peels recipe is an easy and tasty way to use oranges! You’ll also find other great recipes and tips for using oranges.
Easy Orange Recipes and Tips
It’s that time of year. You found a really good deal on oranges but you purchased a few more than you can eat. Now what do you do with them. Here are a few suggestions to get you started:
Make juice out of the orangesand then use the peels for Candied Orange Peels.
Use the leftover syrup from Candied Orange Peels(recipe below) on pancakes or French Toast. The syrup can also be used to make popsicles.
Wash orange peels thoroughly.Grate the peel before using and freeze the zest for later use.
Cut up orange segments and use as a garnish for salads.Use in fruit salad or sliced as a side dish.
Cut up orange slices and use a garnishfor meat or relish dishes.
Cut up peels.In a saucepan add peels, 1 cinnamon stick, a few cloves and fill to the top with water. Simmer for a nice potpourri or dry peels and use in dry potpourri.
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Lesley
I just found this recipe I love the Idea of being able to use the whole orange or fruit of any type I have never had candied Orange peels didn’t realize possible how do you use them in a recipe or is it like a candy treat ? Thank you for your recipes and videos tips of all types… I currently save orange or lemon peels and place in a mason jar with vinegar and let set for 2 weeks its a great cleaner and smells great I use vinegar as my main cleaner I cant use a lot of things due to being allergic to so many things the fruit peels give vinegar a better scent and also the lemon peels or even half a lemon is great clean faucets showers etc , but I’m new to your website and videos and so glad I have found them!!
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Jill
You can eat the candied orange peels alone or sprinkle them on top of something like a white cake or add to cookies. You can add them to some spinach salads etc.
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Maralene A Strom
Thanks so much for sharing these recipies. Plan to for sure use the citris recipes…my favorite is orange marmalade!!!
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Cathrine Osberg
Love these recipes! Live in California with several producing citrus trees and have a bounty of fruit! Yes, in summer our neighbors have zucchini to give away, but we ALWAYS have lemons, limes, and oranges throughout the year and our neighborhood gets to share in the bounty–by the peck and all organic. Thanks. Love the marmalade.
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Rose Strong
Does this make the marmalade without any pectin? Very interested if it does and a nice small amount instead of tossing the orange would be brilliant.
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Jill
Yes it does. The boiling it is what thickens it.
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Rebecca McCray
You can use Sugar instead of Pectin. It works almost the same to me.
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Isabella
How long does it keep in the fridge? Can I freeze the marmalade?
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Jill
It will keep in the fridge more than 3-6 months or more. I wouldn’t freeze it because the bits of fruit might become mushy. Because it is so easy to make a small amount and it keeps so long in the fridge you probably wouldn’t need to freeze.
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Jodie Mosley
Easy and delicious! I was making green beans about tge same time amd wven dropped a small teaspoon of it in it while it was sauteeing…just because. AND YUM!
Experiment with orange zest in everything from marinades to salad dressing to desserts like Toasted Coconut and Orange Icebox Cookies. Nothing chases away the winter blues like fiery San Diego-Style Blue Corn Salmon Tacos with Orange-Habanero Hot Sauce.
The most important product made from oranges in the United States is frozen concentrated juice. Essential oils, pectin, candied peel, and orange marmalade are among the important by-products. Sour, or Seville, oranges are raised especially for making marmalade.
Dip a cut orange in coarse, raw sugar and gently scrub your skin with it to exfoliate. “The coarse sugar removes the dead skin and oils and juices from the orange soften the skin,” one Taste of Home editor says. You can try this on your face, hands and feet.
If you find yourself with a bounty of our favorite sweet citrus fruits and you run out of orange desserts to make, you can stash your extra oranges in the freezer to enjoy later.
Boiling the oranges softens the peel of the oranges and makes them easier to chop finely in a food processor (or by hand). Also boiling the oranges tends to mellow the pith of the orange (the white part of the skin) - the pith tends to be quite bitter and could leave an unpleasant taste in the cake if it was used raw.
How to make the orange chicken sauce. The orange sauce is made from a mixture of the orange juice and zest, sugar, soy sauce, garlic, ginger and rice vinegar. This is bubbled up in the wok until slightly thickened. The chicken is then added back in, and tossed in the sauce until fully coated.
At room temperature, oranges can last for about a week.In the fridge, meanwhile, they can stay good for about a month. If you don't plan to eat them within about four weeks, consider freezing your oranges — frozen oranges will keep for up to a year.
After eating oranges, most of us discard the skin, but orange peels are far too useful to be wasted. According to in vitro data from a study conducted by a scientist with the Agricultural Research Service and collaborators, orange peels are a rich source of carbohydrates with various health-promoting qualities.
Watch out for nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach cramps, headache, and insomnia. Oranges are high in acid, and that can make symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) worse. If you're taking beta-blockers, too many oranges could increase your potassium intake and lead to kidney damage.
If you have a lot of oranges to use up before they go bad, freezing is probably the way to go. With this method, they'll last up to a year: Either peel your oranges or wash the peels thoroughly. Cut the oranges into wedges or slices.
Then there are the classic options: freeze lemon or lime juice for homemade lemonade in the summer; create a marmalade or preserves; make a lemon bar (or try a different citrus); or peel, segment and can your citrus.
Store them in your refrigerator crisper drawer, as opposed to room temperature. If your garage is around the same temperature as your refrigerator, you can store them there too. Store with lemons and avocados in the crisper drawer to increase the shelf life.
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