I can do it myself! After studying it, I decided to try it myself and post it with my friends!
Honey grapefruit tea
I. Materials to be produced:
Grapefruit: 500g (with pulp) is the best choice for citron tea. It is said that these two kinds of grapefruit are slightly less bitter. Huyou is particularly good. Although small, the skin is golden and the meat is tender, which is the highest Vc content in grapefruit.
White sugar: 100g (preferably sucrose) or rock sugar.
Honey: 250 grams (it is best to choose honey with light fragrance, which can highlight the fruity aroma of grapefruit. Fragrant honey such as Sophora japonica honey is recommended, but osmanthus honey is not recommended.
Glass bottle: the best can hold 1000cc.
Second, practice:
1, the most critical step in making citron tea is the treatment of grapefruit. First, you need to clean the grapefruit skin and soak it in warm water at about 65 degrees Celsius for 5 minutes. If there is no thermometer, you can measure the temperature by hand. It's probably hot to the touch, but it can be touched. On the one hand, it can clean the grapefruit skin, and at the same time, it can use the water temperature to open the pores of the grapefruit skin. If you are worried about waxing the surface of grapefruit, you can brush it with a small soft brush or toothbrush dipped in salt. You can also soak in light salt water for ten minutes, which is helpful to remove pesticide residues on the surface.
2. Clean the grapefruit, dry the water on the surface with a paper towel, prepare a fruit knife and peel it off. Notice three parts. The first layer is the topmost yellow peel of grapefruit, which is the essence of grapefruit to eliminate phlegm and relieve cough. This is a test of your peeling skills. Only yellow skin is needed, and the white pulp in the middle is cut as little as possible.
3. Cut the peeled yellow peel into filaments about 2-3 cm long and 0. 1-0.2 cm wide, just like we usually cut shredded potatoes. The finer the better, cut it and marinate it in salt water for a while.
4. Then there is the white pulp between the grapefruit skin and the grapefruit pulp, which is the most bitter place of grapefruit and can be chosen according to your own taste. It can also be cut into filaments and set aside for later use. Then take out the innermost grapefruit meat, without the core.
5. Put the grapefruit meat into a blender, add a glass of water and paste it (if there is no blender, you can cut the grapefruit meat into small pieces instead).
6. Then put the cut grapefruit peel and pulp mud into a clean and oil-free pot, add a small bowl of clear water and 200 grams of rock sugar, first turn on the big fire, stir with a spoon to melt the rock sugar, and then cook for 1-2 hours with medium and small fire until it becomes thick and the grapefruit peel is golden and translucent. Pay attention to stirring frequently when cooking to avoid sticking to the pot.
7. After shredding and pickling, the bitter taste of grapefruit peel has been much less, and the bitter taste will be lighter after boiling. Cooling, adding honey, and stirring to obtain honey grapefruit tea. Turn off the fire, cool, add honey and stir to make honey grapefruit tea. Take it out, seal it in a glass bottle, and put it in the refrigerator for ten to fifteen days. When you want to drink, dig 2~3 spoonfuls of citron tea, then pour in some warm water and stir well. It can also be eaten as jam and has a special flavor. However, people with cold spleen deficiency should not eat more.
Grapefruit is rich in nutrition.
Pomelo has high nutritional value and is rich in protein, organic acids, vitamins and essential elements such as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and sodium.
Modern medicine believes that grapefruit contains a physiologically active substance called naringin, which can reduce the viscosity of blood and reduce the formation of thrombosis. Therefore, eating grapefruit can promote wound healing and prevent cerebrovascular diseases such as sepsis, cerebral thrombosis and stroke, especially for middle-aged and elderly people.
Fresh grapefruit meat is an ideal food for diabetics because it contains ingredients similar to insulin. It can stimulate appetite, treat dyspepsia and other symptoms, regulate qi and dissipate stagnation.
Eating more grapefruit can also help prevent the occurrence of intestinal cancer and gastric cancer. It is easy to get angry in winter, and grapefruit can reduce fire and inhibit oral ulcers. The content of vitamin C in grapefruit is much higher than that in other fruits. The content of vitamin C in grapefruit meat is 57mg per100g, which is 0/0 times that of pear. Grapefruit can also relieve alcoholism and eliminate the peculiar smell in the mouth after drinking.
How to choose grapefruit
Grapefruit has so many benefits, how to choose when buying it? When buying grapefruit, you can use the methods of "smelling" and "knocking".
● Buy grapefruit with wide top and wide bottom.
Smell, that is, smell the aroma, ripe grapefruit, full of fragrance; Knock, that is, knock down the skin of the fruit to see if it sinks. The quality of depressed and inelastic grapefruit is poor. In addition, it is best to choose a standard grapefruit with a sharp bottom and a large width. The peel must be thin and smooth, light green or yellow in color and soft and juicy.
● It is sweetest to eat two weeks after picking.
The grapefruit just picked doesn't taste the best. It's best to keep it indoors for a few days. Generally, after two weeks, the water in grapefruit gradually evaporates and the taste will become sweeter and sweeter.
How to eat grapefruit
The therapeutic effect of grapefruit is particularly obvious. Pomelo is full of treasures, and pomelo peel has wonderful uses. With such high nutritional value, everyone should learn how to eat grapefruit quickly.
● How to eat pomelo peel?
● Selection of pomelo peel: In terms of material selection, it is best to choose the pomelo peel of Thailand Golden Pomelo. Because the skin of Thai golden pomelo is thick, white and rich in aroma; It would be better to use immature pomelo peel from Shatian, Guangxi. Pomelo peel is thicker and more fragrant, which is a rare good material.
● How to take grapefruit peel: Take 1 grapefruit, carve it vertically on the grapefruit peel with a fruit knife, draw it into a boat shape with five petals, then peel off the peel in all directions and take out the grapefruit pulp. Be careful when taking grapefruit pulp. It is best not to break the grapefruit skin and keep it intact.
● Treatment method of pomelo peel: use pomelo peel, first peel off the bluish-yellow epidermis, which is hard and astringent and can't be eaten, leaving a white "cotton wool" inner layer. Then roll the grapefruit peel with boiling water for 10 minute (chopsticks can pierce it), then pick it up and soak it in clear water for one night, then pick it up the next day to squeeze out the water, and then soak it in clear water for several times. After removing the green smell of grapefruit peel, cut it into blocks.