Yields:
1 Serving
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 20 Mins
Cook Time:
51 Mins
Total Time:
1 Hr 11 Mins
The candied fruit slices are sweet, but not overly sweet and the orange rinds are not bitter. These candied fruit slices are a welcome addition to any dessert! Here they are used on an Orange & Pineapple Poppy Seed Cake.
Ingredients
Adjust Servings
Instructions
- Wash and dry orange. Cut orange into thin even slices. Discard any seeds and ends.
- Fill a large bowl with ice water, and set aside.
- Bring a saucepan of water to a boil and add orange slices. Boil the orange slices for 1 minute (to boil out the bitterness of the rinds) then place in the bowl of ice water until cooled.
- Drain cooled orange slices on a wire rack.
- In a large skillet over medium heat. Bring 200g (1 cup) of sugar and 236g (1 cup) of water to a low boil. Heat until sugar dissolves stirring occasionally.
- Turn heat to low and place orange and pineapple slices in the sugar-water mixture in a single layer.
- Simmer (do not boil) the fruit slices for 45 - 50 minutes or until rinds are slightly translucent, turning them over every 15 minutes.
- Place fruit slices on a cooling rack and allow to cool completely. (This will take a couple of hours or just leave them on the rack overnight).
- Sprinkle fruit slices with extra granulated sugar to prevent them from becoming sticky.
- Use immediately or keep fruit slices refrigerated in an airtight container until ready to use.
Notes
Reserve orange & pineapple simple syrup for another use.