Sweet and delicious honey grapefruit tea do not need to buy, hand in hand to teach you to make at home, with food and take really convenient ingredients step tips
author:The art of cooking bamboo shoots
In winter, the snow is everywhere, and it is a good time for grapefruit to go on the market.
Yuzu, known by the ancients as "Xiangluan", is loved by people because of its unique aroma. It is rich in nutrients, sweet and delicious, the whole body is a treasure, fruit, peel, grapefruit flowers can be used in medicine. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is recorded that grapefruit tastes sweet acid, cold, moisturizes the lungs and clears the intestines, helps digestion, has the effect of stomach digestion, phlegm and cough, etc.; the grapefruit skin is smooth, degreased and greasy, and is the top product of clearing the fire.
In addition to the direct consumption of grapefruit as a fruit, the nutritional value of the peel is not worse than the flesh, with the therapeutic effect of warming the stomach, dissolving phlegm, moisturizing the throat, etc., can not only be made into grapefruit candy to eat, it is made with the grapefruit flesh together with the honey grapefruit tea color delicious sweet, sweet and sweet, hot and cold, summer drink heat to fire, winter drink warm and moist.
Every winter, bamboo shoots will buy a lot of grapefruit, this year there are many varieties of grapefruit at home, so bamboo shoots use them to make honey grapefruit tea, good honey grapefruit tea, sealed, can drink for a year, can be comparable to the commercially available Yo, come with me to do it!
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1.5 grapefruit peels, 300g rock sugar,
Honey 200g, salt to taste, water 1000g
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The surface of the grapefruit peel is scrubbed clean with salt, which removes wax and dirt from the surface of the grapefruit peel.
Rinse with clean water and peel the grapefruit to remove the white urn inside the grapefruit skin.
Although it is the essence of the fire, it is very bitter and will affect the taste of the finished product, and it can also be directly scraped with a scraper.
The treated grapefruit peel is knifed into small pieces or strips.
Place in a large bowl and add salt and pickle for 10 minutes.
Soak in salt water for another 2 hours or more.
Gently rub with your hands to remove the bitterness faster. When the color of the soaked water turns yellow, change the water to soak; after each change of water, rub it with your hands for a while until the soaked water is no longer yellow; soaking for one day is the best, you can soak the next day the night before, and change the water once in the middle of the condition, so that the bitter taste of the grapefruit skin will be reduced a lot after treatment.
Peel off all the yuzu meat and set aside.
Bring a pot of water to a boil, add the grapefruit peel and cook for 3-5 minutes.
It is best to boil twice and drain the water so that some of the bitterness can be removed.
Stir again and add rock sugar and cook until dissolved.
Put the grapefruit peel in and cook until transparent.
Add the pulp of the grapefruit to it and simmer it.
Rock sugar should be added enough, and the specific amount depends on personal preferences.
Mix with a spoon and let it evenly dip in the sugar water.
Bring to a boil over high heat.
Turn the heat to medium, keeping the pan slightly boiling and stirring with a spoon from time to time.
Slowly the color will darken.
Simmer until it becomes viscous, turn to a low heat and simmer slowly, it will take about an hour.
It is normal for bubbles and liquid to splash during the boiling process.
The liquid in the pot will gradually decrease, and the middle will be stirred continuously to prevent the paste of the pot.
Simmer until the flesh is transparent and golden, with a bright caramel color.
At this time, the juice is almost dry, turn off the heat and cool.
Honey is added to about 60 degrees, and the high temperature will destroy the nutrition of honey.
Stir to combine.
Honey grapefruit tea is ready, crystal clear.
When bottled in the remaining heat, there will be bubbles in the freshly made honey grapefruit tea, and the bubbles that have been sealed for more than 3 days will be eliminated, and the bitter taste will be reduced or even disappeared.
Seal and store, when you want to drink, brew with warm water.
Packing it up and giving it away is also very good
If you don't want to add honey, immediately after boiling, bottle and seal it, you can add honey to brew together when you soak, the taste is also very good.
In addition to honey grapefruit tea, the season of eating grapefruit is to scrub the grapefruit peel with salt and dry it in the sun, and if there is a fire and cough at home, take out a small piece and add rock sugar. Three bowls of water are fried into one bowl of water, and it will be much more comfortable to drink while hot. Remember that the white urn in the grapefruit skin must be kept to be useful.
This time to make honey grapefruit tea to choose the three common grapefruit on the market, Zhenxi grapefruit, the flesh is deep red, the taste is sweeter; Sha tin grapefruit, the flesh is slightly yellow, the taste is slightly hard; peaceful red grapefruit, the flesh is pink, and the moisture is sufficient. The honey grapefruit tea made by the combination of three kinds of grapefruit is sweet and sweet, and moisturizes the heart and spleen.
A perfectly boiled honey grapefruit tea with amber in finished color, crystal clear flesh and moist fragrance.
Delicious and sweet honey grapefruit tea, sweet and fragrant, drink hot in summer to go to the fire, drink warm and moist in winter.
In the cold winter, let's have a cup to warm people!
Please drink it!
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1. The surface of the grapefruit peel is cleaned with salt, which can remove the wax or pesticides played by unscrupulous traders, and can also remove part of the bitter taste of the grapefruit skin.
2, although the white urn is the essence of the fire, but the taste is bitter, so to remove.
3, remove the grapefruit skin bitter is not difficult, as long as through cleaning - soaking - blanching water, the basic bitter taste can be eliminated most of the time.
4, buy grapefruit to choose heavy, pinch a pinch of the grapefruit skin has no water, there is a description of freshness, or gently rub the skin with your hands, if there is a smell of fruit, it is also fresh.
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