Alice Medrich

Candied Citrus Zests

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Alice Medrich

Published 1990

  • About

Brightly colored candied zests make an extra-pretty garnish for citrus desserts.

Ingredients

  • 1–2 bright-skinned oranges, lemons, or limes, preferably organic
  • ½ cup sugar

Method

  1. Use a vegetable peeler to remove the zest (colored part of the skin only) from the fruit in pieces as long and wide as possible. To obtain the longest and widest pieces, hold the fruit against the counter and start peeling from the stem end toward the opposite end of the fruit. Bear down firmly with the peeler and move the blade back and forth (as though you were cutting