Sweet, juicy, bright oranges are ideal for production of juice, jams, jelly and various desserts, but their culinary use isn't limited to it. Oranges are also put in salads, sauces, marinades. Usually for preparation of various dishes there are enough only several fruits, but happens so that at your disposal there are much more oranges, than you got used to use, and then you need completely different recipes.
Orange jam
Use the easiest way a large number of oranges – to make from them jam. It is required to you: - 1 kg of oranges;
- 100 ml of lemon juice; - 2 kg of sugar.
Wash up oranges under flowing water. Cut each fruit in half and squeeze out juice. By means of a spoon scrape out from fruits all pulp together with stones and fill in with water. Cut an orange skin on pieces and put in juice. Leave for 10-12 hours.
Pour in a pan in juice with a peel, fill in with the infused orange water. Tie pulp and kernels in a sack from a gauze or muslin and place also in a pan. Bring to the boil and you cook on slow fire within 2-3 hours until the peel becomes soft.
Take out a sack from a pan, filter contents through a sieve and measure it. At you it has to turn out liquid about a liter. If it is less or to increase of it more in proportion or reduce amount of sugar and lemon juice. It has to be 1:1:10 where the first two figures - uvarenny orange juice and sugar, and the last – lemon juice. Mix sugar, uvarenny orange juice and lemon juice, add a crust and bring to the boil. Scum, reduce heating and you cook jam until its drop stiffens on a porcelain saucer. Pour ready jam on the sterilized banks.
Orange кхир
Khir – a kind of the Indian sweeties on the basis of milk. Prepare it with oranges and enjoy unusual taste and color of a dessert. Take it: - 1 liter of milk of 2.5% of fat content; - 10 average oranges; - ½ cups of the crushed cashew nuts; - 2 tea boats of ground cardamom; - sugar to taste. Bring milk to the boil and you cook on slow fire while it doesn't uvaritsya half. Put a little sugar, cardamom and the crushed nuts. Peel oranges, remove sunflower seeds and crush pulp. Add it to a little cooled milk, mix and remove in the fridge. Give кхир cold.
Cod with oranges
Oranges fine addition not only to juicy meat dishes. But also to delicate fish. Prepare a gentle cod with oranges. For this dish it is required to you: - 4 cod fillet; - 4 large oranges; - 1 head of red onions; - 1 tablespoon of olive oil; - salt and pepper. Peel two oranges, having cut off a peel a thin knife together with the top membrane. By means of the same sharp and thin knife cut out pulp from fruits accurate segments. From the remained fruits squeeze out juice. In a big frying pan on average fire warm oil. Chop onions half rings. Fry onions, stirring slowly, to transparency, lay out it on a plate. Increase fire and fry in the same frying pan of cod fillet, peppered and I will merge. Fry 3-4 minutes from each party. Lay out on serving plates. Return onions in a frying pan, pour in orange juice and bring to the boil, you cook so far sauce won't decrease twice. Add pieces of oranges, warm up and pour out seasoning on fish. Give to a table.