Confited orange recipe

Orange is a citrus fruit with many varieties: there are sweet, bitter, special oranges for juice or table. But, in short, they are aromatic, appetizing and, although they usually have their perfect maturation point in winter, we can enjoy them all year. With that in mind, we will prepare an orange recipe confined that you can use to decorate roscons, pastels, pastries or to prepare them with chocolate. The acid sweetness of oranges make them one of the most commonly used fruits in desserts, so if you like these ideas, we invite you to discover how to make confited orange. You will have it ready in a jiffy and you will only need 4 ingredients.

Ingredients to make confited orange:

1. Wash the oranges meticulously to eliminate possible remains of sulfates or earth. Tell them in very thin slices with a knife as sharp as possible. Remove the slices of the tips, because you will not use them.

2. Put the orange slices in a saucepan and cover them with water and salt. Let them boil for 4 minutes to remove the bitter taste from the orange.

3. Remove the water with a strainer under the tap and rinse with great care so that the slices do not spoil. Another option is to drain the water with salt and submerge them in clean water to clean them.

4. Now the main part of the recipe begins. Fill a saucepan with water, add the sugar and disseminate it. Put the water to heat and add the orange slices again. Let cook an hour over low heat, they will absorb the sugar slowly and form a syrup.

5. Once the weather has elapsed, the oranges confitated will be ready. You can strain the juice in which you cooked or reserve them in it. Let them drain and dry in a grid tray to cool and are less soft.

6. Pass them to a dish or use them as you prefer. If you like the mixture of oranges confitted with chocolate, you can bathe them in molten chocolate and save them in the fridge to solidify. It will be a perfect unexpected dessert to surprise your loved ones!