Homemade Orange Marmalade
Orange marmalade is kind of a random thing for me to make. The reason I made this recipe in the first place is because I needed some marmalade for this week’s TWD recipe (check tomorrow to see how I used it!). I didn’t really want to buy a jar of marmalade, and I had a ton of oranges, so I gave it a try.
Searching for marmalade recipes was scary at first- they all looked difficult and took anywhere from 12-24 hours to make. I finally found an easier version on RecipeZaar, and switched it up to suit my tastes.
Easy Orange Marmalade
(makes one small jar, depending on how large the orange is)
One medium navel orange
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons water
1. Wash the orange thoroughly! Cut off the ends of the orange.
2. Zest the orange. After the zest is collected, peel or cut off the orange skin. Separate the orange into halves and remove any visible seeds.
3. Place orange into a food processor and process until you have a relatively fine pulp.
4. In a medium saucepan, combine zest, orange pulp, sugar and water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer about 5 minutes, or until mixture becomes thick and sticks to your whisk/spoon.
5. Pour into small jar or resealable container. Refrigerate to store.
Gorgeous! I have some oranges sitting around and this looks like a great use 🙂
Oh, this reminds me: I’ve been wanting to make apricot preserves, but they’re never *really* in season around here, and they don’t come around locally until the end of the summer . . . I’m not sure I can wait that long!
I might have to make do with our never-local oranges and try this out. =)
Looks wonderful and easy. I should have made lemon marmalade instead of looking all over for it.
Good for you!
I made a batch of orange marmalade a few weeks ago! What fun.
Thank you for posting this recipe! I got the idea to make orange marmalade as a last-minute Father’s Day gift. After looking over all the labor and time intensive recipes I was pretty discouraged. Lo and behold! Even I couldn’t manage to mess this one up!
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looks delicious! i cant wait to try it out! yummy!!!