This mandarin orange marmalade is made from leftover oranges.
After our overseas guests leave, so as not to waste these oranges, I adapted the recipe from Cheah’s blog, No-Frills Recipes with a little adjustment.
I must say, this is a time consuming job that took me about two hours (because I wanted to use up all the oranges) peeling, cutting, and removing the membranes from the oranges – and only managed to get five bottles!
The mandarin orange marmalade still tastes a little bit bitter as the bitterness comes from the orange peel. Anyway, the feedback that I received was not bad indeed.
How to Make Mandarin Marmalade
- Yield: 8 bottles 1x
Ingredients
Scale
- 2.2 kg Mandarin oranges (about 14–16 oranges)
- 800 g caster sugar
- 5½ cups water (1375ml)
- 4 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- peels from 2 mandarin oranges (optional)
Instructions
- Wash and scrub the oranges well. Peel the oranges and remove piths, carefully cut the peels of 2 oranges into thin strips with a sharp knife. Soak peels with a pinch of salt in hot water for 10 minutes and drain well.
- Cut the oranges segments in half, crosswise , break out the segments and remove the seeds with a skewer. Wrap the seeds in a muslin cloth. (I used tea bag).
- Put the orange segments, water, lemon juice, sugar, peels and the bag of seeds into a large pot.
- Once boiling, reduce heat to medium low and let it bubble for about an hour (mine cooked for 90 minutes), uncovered, stirring occasionally until liquid reduced to half and reached gel point.
- Ladle the hot jam into the sterilized jars, leaving about ½ inch gap from the top and twist while the jam is still hot. Invert the bottles to cool before placing them in the refrigerator for at least 2 weeks.
Notes
- The seeds are full of pectin and pectin is needed for jam setting.
- Jell point testing –
- Chill a small plate in a freezer for at least 1 hour. Place a dollop of jam onto the plate and run a clean finger down the middle of the small puddle of jam. When the jam reaches the run consistency, the two separated pools should remain parted.
- Category: Dessert, Snack
Marmalade is supposed to have a bitter taste, at least a little, if it’s any good in my opinion! That’s what makes it marmalade: the bitter and the sweet.
Can you please give English measurements for the ingredients instead of Metric Thanks
Thanks for idea
I have made mandarin, lemon and ginger marmalade, usin small cut slices of peel. I cooked it with sugar, two cups of water and lemon juice. Stirring all the time until less water in pan. It set very quickly. It did not have smooth consistency, but this was what friend wanted. I tried it, and was pleasantly surprised at nice flavour. I have never made marmalade before. I have made jam to my iwn recipe, which was readily eaten. Carry on the goid work.