Chocolate Orangette – Candied Orange Peels
Candied chocolate coated orange peel strips!
Servings
450g
Cook Time
3hr
Servings
450g
Cook Time
3hr
Ingredients
Candied Orange Peel
Chocolate Coating
Instructions
Candied orange peel
  1. Cut each orange by length first in quarters and then each quarter in half, again by length.
  2. Set each orange wedge on a cutting board, orange peel down. Lay sharp kitchen knife flat and carefully cut the flesh from the peel. Save the flesh for fruit salad or other similar use.
  3. Again cutting by length, cut each rind wedge into 5 mm (1/4″) wide strips.
  4. Put the strips in a medium size saucepan and cover with cold water.
  5. Over high heat (10 out of 10) bring the water and orange strips to boil.
  6. Strain the strips, rinse with fresh water. Turn the strips back into the saucepan, cover with water and bring to boil again. Repeat the whole process 3 times in total.
  7. Add strips, weighed sugar and water to the medium size saucepan. Over high heat (10 out of 10) bring boil, reduce heat to low simmer. Cook at low simmer for 2 hours.
  8. Take the saucepan off the heat cover and leave on the stove to cool off overnight.
  9. Strain the orange strips and save the syrup. Over high heat (10 out of 10) cook the syrup until reaches 104ºC (219ºF), set aside and let cool to room temperature.
  10. Put the drained orange strips into large and clean sealable container. Pour over cooled syrup, close and keep refrigerated. Stored this way, orange peel can last for months. Note: If coated in sugar and refrigerated, orange strips can be stored up to a year.
  11. Put orange strips on a cooling rack suspended over a baking pan lined with parchment paper. Set aside for 1-2 days until dried out and not sticky.
Chocolate coating
  1. Melt the chocolate over double boiler, stir in vegetable oil. Let cool slightly.
  2. Dip each orange strip into melted chocolate glaze, drain and place on a parchment paper to set. You can make coating variations by coating half strips, whole strips and some strips after being fully coated you can immediately roll into small bowl with powdered sugar. This will give the chocolate coated strips a haze-like look.
  3. Store strips in the fridge in a sealed container.