Homemade candied lemon peels. How to make candied lemon peel - the recipe is simple and delicious.

This recipe is simple to prepare, although it takes a long time. However, simple technology makes it possible for even inexperienced cooks to make candied lemon peels at home.

How to make candied lemon peel at home.

For cooking, choose varieties with thick skins. It is necessary to wash the lemons thoroughly, dry them, remove the peel without touching the pulp and cut it into pieces of the same size. The products indicated in the recipe are designed for 1 kg of crusts.

Then, fill the candied fruit preparations with water and leave for 72 hours or four days. If this is not done, the candied fruits will taste bitter.

The water needs to be changed 6-7 times during this period.

Then, you need to prepare sugar syrup: boil 250 ml of water, add 1 kg of 200 g of sugar and boil, stirring, until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Pour this syrup over the soaked lemon peels and simmer for 10 minutes.

Then leave to infuse for 10 hours.

Repeat this three times.

After the third cooking, strain the sugared lemon peels from the syrup and let them dry.

Then, dry in the oven at low temperature (not higher than 40 C) for several hours. The oven door can be left ajar. Let dry at room temperature.

Heat clean jars in the oven, place prepared dry candied lemon peels in them and close tightly.

The storage place should not be warm or humid. It is very convenient to store candied fruits in plastic boxes in the freezer. The proposed methods, at first glance, contradict each other, but in fact, both the first and second cases are ideal for storing workpieces.

Having mastered how to make candied lemon peels, you can also make orange, grapefruit or lime peels using a similar recipe. Yes, I almost forgot - you can make delicious homemade lemonade from the lemons and syrup left without the skin.