Materials
Ingredients
1 grapefruit peel
Accessories
1 lemon
Seasoning
An appropriate amount of salt
90 grams of old rock sugar
An appropriate amount of water
Method
1. Rub the surface of the grapefruit peel with salt until the surface layer of the grapefruit peel is damaged
2. Wash it with clean water (some grapefruits are waxed, remove them in this step), and cut the cleaned grapefruit peel into pieces. Large pieces
3. Then slice off the white flesh that is too thick inside
4. Leave a little white flesh. Although the white flesh is bitter, it is also the essence of removing fire. Cut into small pieces with a knife. Block
5. Soak in clean water (soaking for one day is the best). Finally, the color of the water turns yellow and the bitterness of the grapefruit peel is reduced. Boil a pot of water and add a spoonful of salt to the water
6. Put the soaked grapefruit peel in a pot and cook for a while until the grapefruit peel becomes transparent and then turn off the heat. At this time, the water in the steamer will be yellow
7. Remove the grapefruit peel Rinse it in cold water
8. After taking it out, squeeze the water from the grapefruit peel with your hands (if you taste it at this time, the grapefruit peel has almost no bitterness and has a very refreshing taste)
9.140 grams of dried grapefruit peel. I used 90 grams of rock sugar, which is already very sweet. If you don’t like sugar, you can control the ratio of grapefruit peel to sugar to 2:1
10. Pot Put half a bowl of boiling water in the middle, add rock sugar, squeeze in a little lemon juice, let the rock sugar melt and let it bubble, add the grapefruit peel, stir-fry slowly over low heat
11. Until the grapefruit peel absorbs all the Sugar liquid, if there is no liquid in the pot, turn off the heat
12. The finished pomelo peel sugar semi-finished product can be dried in a heated room for a day (if you don’t want to wait, you can bake it at about 100 degrees, slow Slowly bake until dry, or microwave at minimum heat until dry), but natural air drying is the most environmentally friendly
Cooking Tips
1. Wash the surface of the grapefruit peel with salt to remove the stains from unscrupulous vendors. Wax or pesticides can also remove part of the bitter taste of grapefruit peel;
2. The outermost peel and part of the white bitter pulp of grapefruit are used to make grapefruit peel candy, which has a good taste and good fire-removing effect. ;
3. Three steps to remove the bitterness of grapefruit peel: cleaning-soaking-blanching;
4. The ratio of dried grapefruit peel to sugar is about 2:1. If you like sweetness, I add more, and the grapefruit peel candies are very sweet and delicious;
5. The prepared grapefruit peel can be dried naturally, or in the oven or microwave, as long as it is firm, then seal it After preservation, it will naturally regain moisture during the process, which is normal, and it will become softer and more delicious after moisture regains;
6. Lemon can be added or not added (adding less will not affect taste, citric acid has a preservative effect), but since there are no preservatives, it is better to eat it as soon as possible.