Name: Chinese Orange Marmalade recipe by Jyoti Bhalla Ahuja at BetterButter
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 15
Ingredients: Chinese Oranges/mandarins - I used approximately 25 oranges; Sugar to taste; Lemon juice 1-2 tbsp; Water just enough to cover and cook the oranges

ABOUT Chinese Orange Marmalade RECIPE

Every year, the orange tree in my garden yields so many small Chinese mandarins. The fruit in itself is so bitter in taste that you cannot have it in its pure form. So this time around, I tried my hands on making a jam from them. I did not particularly have any recipe for the same, so started searching for it on Google. Found 2 interesting recipes on Rajee Sood's blog and Jo’s blog. I took inspiration from their recipes and formulated my own combining the 2 recipes.

Ingredients Serving: 15

Chinese Oranges/mandarins - I used approximately 25 oranges
Sugar to taste
Lemon juice 1-2 tbsp
Water just enough to cover and cook the oranges

Instructions

Wash and dry the oranges. Cut them into two halves and remove all the seeds.
Slice the oranges into thin slivers. Do not remove the skin.
Now put water and oranges together in a pan and bring to a boil and cook on a high flame for 5 minutes.
Turn flame to medium heat and keep on cooking until most of the water evaporates.
Add the sugar to taste and keep on stirring continuously on low flame, till all the water evaporates.
Put a spoon in the jam and if the back of the spoon comes out coated sticky, then the marmalade is ready. There may be some bubbles in the jam, which will settle on cooling.
Once the jam cools a bit, add lemon juice as a preservative. Store in an air tight glass jar.

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