Who doesn’t love candied fruits? Maybe the kids who haven’t figured out how exquisite they are yet. My brothers, who have an ancient Masseria in Sicily with a citrus grove that boasts more than a thousand trees, look at the link,, sent me boxes of delicacies, oranges, cedars, grapefruits, lemons and much more. Feeling the super good scent of those citrus fruits, and appreciating their exquisiteness, made me want not to waste absolutely anything of them and use also the peels. How? Making candied! Try, they are delicious so natural, or covered with chocolate.
Ingredients
- Orange peel, cedar (about 6/7 pieces)
- 600 g sugar
- 1 liter water
Preparation
- Cut peel on each orange into 4 or 5 vertical segments (see photo below). Remove each segment (including white pith) in 1 piece. Cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips.
- Put the strips in a bowl with hot water and leave them for at least 24 hours. If you want you can cook in large pot of boiling water 15 minutes and then leave them in the water for at least 24 hours.
- After 24 hours prepare the syrup by dissolving the sugar in the water. Drain the strips then add them to the syrup and simmer, with a lid over low heat for two hours. Check from time to time that the syrup has not completely dried.
- After two hours remove the lid and let the syrup evaporate altogether.
- Cover an oven tray with baking paper and place the strips, spaced one from the other. Let stand until dry for at least one day.
- You can store the candied strips in a glass container, or cover them with dark chocolate or roll them into caster sugar.
