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🍽️ Homemade Orange Marmalade
783 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 1.5 kg Oranges (e.g. bitter oranges; unwaxed)
- 1 kg Sugar
Instructions
- 1. Wash the oranges under hot water and pat them dry.
- 2. Peel off the orange zest and set it aside.
- 3. Cut the oranges in half and squeeze the juice through a cloth into a pot.
- 4. Tie the squeezed orange pulp into a cloth or a linen bag.
- 5. Hang the bag with the pulp into the pot with the juice.
- 6. Pour 1 liter of water and the previously removed zest into the pot.
- 7. Bring the mixture to a boil and stir occasionally.
- 8. Simmer the mixture for about 30 minutes until the peels are soft.
- 9. Turn off the heat and remove the cloth with the peel remnants.
- 10. Let the peel remnants in the cloth cool down.
- 11. Pour the juice into a measuring cup to determine the amount of sugar.
- 12. Weigh about 225 g of sugar for every 250 ml of juice.
- 13. Sprinkle the sugar into the pot with the juice.
- 14. Add the peel strips back into the pot.
- 15. Squeeze the cloth with the peel remnants well and scrape the bag with a spoon.
- 16. Simmer the marmalade for another 10 to 20 minutes.
- 17. Stir occasionally and skim off the foam that forms.
- 18. Perform a gel test after about 10 minutes.
- 19. Drop 1 teaspoon of the hot liquid onto a small cold plate.
- 20. If the liquid is still runny, continue cooking.
- 21. If the liquid sets, the marmalade is ready.
- 22. Turn off the heat.
- 23. Fill the marmalade into jars that have been rinsed with hot water or boiled.
- 24. Seal the jars immediately.
- 25. Turn the jars occasionally while cooling to distribute the peels evenly.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 783
- Protein: 3 g · Fett/Fat: 1 g · Carbs: 187 g