Pay attention to choose grapefruit that has not been soaked in liquid medicine or waxed. Some grapefruit sold in the market will be soaked in chemical reagents and waxed in order to keep the pomelo skin bright. After Fang Chen saccharification, the skin of grapefruit that has not been soaked will be soft.
First cut the top of Shatian pomelo (the protruding part), then draw it four times vertically on the pomelo body, and determine the depth of drawing according to the thickness of pomelo peel, and then peel the pomelo peel. Remove the sugar-white part of pomelo peel, leaving the surface part rich in volatile oil and naringin, which is the golden part. The white bag can also be left off, because it is like a sponge, and it will absorb too much sugar when putting sugar behind it, which will be sweet and greasy. It is recommended to keep a small part.
Method for making pomelo peel candy
Cut the pomelo peel into shreds, put it in a pot, cook for a while, turn off the fire, the water is yellow, remove the water, soak it again for one day and one night, and change the water frequently. Dry the water in the pomelo peel by hand. At this time, taste it. The pomelo peel is basically not bitter and astringent, and it will have a very fragrant taste.
After preparing the pomelo peel, you can proceed to the following steps of sugar frying:
1. Put half a bowl of boiling water in the pot, add rock sugar, boil the rock sugar until it melts, put the grapefruit peel in, and stir-fry slowly over low heat. The ratio of grapefruit peel to sugar is controlled at 2: 1, which can also be increased or decreased according to personal hobbies.
2. Turn off the fire until the grapefruit peel absorbs all the sugar liquid and there is no liquid in the pot. You can also add some honey before you get better, and the taste will be sweeter. Pay attention to adding a little honey, and the pomelo peel will stick together and become hard after cooling.
3. It can be dried in one day (if you don't want to wait, you can bake it slowly in the oven 100 degrees, or microwave it in the microwave oven to dry it), but natural air drying is the best.
Successful pomelo peel sugar does not appear sand returning phenomenon, and remains transparent or translucent. Sweet and sour, light yellow, soft and fragrant, with Shatian pomelo. Younger children, those with weak chewing ability, can be warmed up before eating, which will be softer and easier to chew.
Naringin is also one of the comprehensive utilization of grapefruit peel. Its flavor is not pure sweetness, but sour, and its appearance is transparent or translucent, which has the effects of relieving cough, resolving phlegm, warming stomach and invigorating spleen. The old man ate very well. Ha ha.
Rock sugar is sweet and flat, and enters the lungs and spleen; It has the effects of invigorating middle energizer, invigorating qi, harmonizing stomach and moistening lung. If there are people with a cold stomach or a cold constitution. You can use brown sugar instead of rock sugar. It's another flavor. You can also add ginger slices when boiling pomelo peel candy. It is pomelo peel candy with ginger candy taste. Jiang Ye warms the stomach and strengthens the spleen to help digestion.