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Blood Orange Marmalade With Gin
This delicious blood orange marmalade with gin is so tasty and versatile and is super easy to make too.
Ingredients
- 1 kg blood oranges 6 oranges
- 800 g sugar
- 1/2 tsp cardamom ground cardamom
- 1/2 lemon juice
- 150 ml gin
Instructions
- Wash oranges to remove any wax preservative before you use them then grate the zest from 3 of the oranges and simmer this in a little water for 15-20 minutes till tender then drain and set aside
- peel the oranges and chop flesh and cook with lemon juice, sugar and cardamom - boil then simmer 25 minutes
- Blitz with stick blender then add the cooked orange zest for 5 minutes more
- Add gin and ladle into sterilised jars
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Notes
Servings are taken as 1 tablespoon of blood orange marmalade.
This will keep for up to a year in a cool cupboard, once opened store in the fridge and use within a month.
You can water-bath can this if you wish - see post above.
Serve on toast, as a glaze for roasting carrots, duck, chicken or pork. Thinned down as a dessert topping. Stirred through Asian dishes for that sweet and sour flavour or just add some to your cheeseboard.
Nutrition
Calories: 52kcalCarbohydrates: 13gProtein: 0.2gFat: 0.1gSaturated Fat: 0.004gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.005gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.005gSodium: 0.2mgPotassium: 30mgFiber: 0.4gSugar: 13gVitamin A: 32IUVitamin C: 8mgCalcium: 6mgIron: 0.03mg
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