Chocolate Dipped Candied Peel

Name: Chocolate Dipped Candied Peel
Ingredients: 500 g good quality dark chocolate, tempered, for dipping (optional); 2 kg unwaxed organic pink or white grapefruit, oranges or lemons; 2 kg unwaxed organic pink or white grapefruit, oranges or lemons; 1 kg caster sugar; 1 litre water; 2 kg unwaxed organic pink or white grapefruit, oranges or lemons; 2 kg unwaxed organic pink or white grapefruit, oranges or lemons

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Rococo

By Chantal Coady

Published 2012

About

This method of candying makes the peel almost transparent and particularly creamy with a gentle and elegant flavour. Use the stock syrup as a base for cordials and cocktails, or drizzle it over cake.

Ingredients

2 kg unwaxed organic pink or white grapefruit, oranges or lemons
1 litre wat

Vegan
Confectionery
Gluten-free

Method

Wash and brush the fruit under running water. Using a sharp knife, score around the fruit from top to bottom, cutting the skin into quarters, without cutting into the fruit. The cut should be the depth of the zest and the pith. Peel the skin away from the fruit with your fingers, lifting it away in its quarters; you want the pith with the peel because this forms the soft body of the candied fru

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