As I cooked the lemon jelly I thought about what to do with all the zests. It would be a pity to throw them all away.
Of course you can always dry the zest and mix it with salt or sugar. But I know from experience that I will not use that stuff. I also know these are lovely gifts, but I also do not know anybody who is using this really and I don’t what to gift things that are only covered by dust and then thrown away.
But I had a brillian idea as I read the word “candied”! A long time ago I made orangettes, which were awesome. Why not try the same thing with lemon peels? And so I did.
I love orangettes, as they remind me of the some childhood sweets called “refreshing sticks”. They were chocolate sticks with a crytallized sugar layer and filled with a refreshing liquid with orange or lemon aroma. They were best served cold. Oh, so good!
One year ago: rhubarb cake upside down
Two years ago: coffee liquor
Three years ago: extracts: vanille, lemon, orange
Four years ago: toast bread
Lemonettes
Ingredients:
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3 organic lemon, preferably with a thick peel
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100 ml lemon juice, best freshly squeezed
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250 g sugar
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200 g bittersweet chocolate (at least 50 % chocolate), coarsely chopped
Carve the oranges two times all around at regular intervals and peel the skin off in four pieces.
Boil water in a large pot. Blanch the peels for 1 minute. Remove the peels and let them drain.
Combine the lemon juice, the sugar and 400 ml water in a medium pot and bring it to the boil. Add the lemon peels and let it simmer for 1,5 hours covered with a lid. Remove the peels and let them drain and dry on a cooling rack for 1 hour.
If your peels have a lot of the inner white peel, called mesocarp, it’s best to remove it now, because it’s really bitter. It works quite well in that phase, because after candying the peels are very soft. You can just scrape the white parts off with a sharp knife.
Cut the peels in stripes.
Prepare a sheet of parchment paper.
Melt the chocolate in a double boiler. Cover the candied lemon strips fully with chocolate. Using a chocolate dipping fork is helpful (otherwise use a normal fork). Place them on the parchment paper and let the chocolate dry.
Hallo,
Mhhhhh, das sieht gut aus. Deine Orangettes fand ich schon große klasse, aber mit Zitronenschalen schmeckt es sicherlich noch mal so gut.
LG
Nika
Hallo Nika,
es freut mich total, dass dir meine Orangettes geschmeckt haben :))! Am besten man macht gleich beides zusammen ;).
Viele liebe Grüße
Lena