Citruses are delicious on their own, but they also make amazing desserts. They are not only very fragrant, but also useful. Here are collected very interesting recipes for a festive and everyday table.
Citrus Dessert - General Cooking Principles
There are many different citrus fruits and their relatives, in addition to lemon and orange for desserts you can use tangerines, grapefruits, pomelo, sweetmeat, lime. And this is not the whole list. In most recipes, one citrus can be replaced with another species. Usually they are used fresh, as they are available all year round, perfectly stored.
What else is used in desserts:
• cottage cheese, sour cream and other dairy products;
• fruits, berries, juices, compotes, liquors;
• chocolate, sweets, various dragees;
• cookies, biscuits, waffles;
• products for baking.
In desserts, not only the pulp of citrus, but also the zest can be used. Very often jelly treats are made from oranges, they need gelatin. There are even jelly-based cake recipes, one of which can be found just below.
Creamy peeled citrus dessert
A variant of a stunning citrus dessert in orange peel. Additionally, you need a little lemon juice. Strawberries can be used canned.
Ingredients
• 4 oranges;
• 0.5 lemon;
• 40 grams drain. oils;
• 200 ml of fat cream;
• 9 tbsp. l Sahara;
• 100 g of strawberries;
• 2 tbsp. l powder
• 2 tbsp. l flour.
Cooking
1. Thoroughly wash the oranges, cut each in half, remove all the flesh, leaving the citrus cups.
2. Remove all white films from the pulp, transfer to a blender, add juice from half a lemon and granulated sugar. Beat everything together. Juice, which stood out when slicing an orange and selecting films, also add to the total mass.
3. Melt the butter in a saucepan, add a couple of tablespoons of flour to it, stir and fry a little.
4. Pour the orange mass into the flour, stir quickly so that the lumps do not form. Cook until thickened, you get a citrus custard. Cool.
5. Spread the cream in halves of an orange. Put in the refrigerator so that it still freezes.
6. Whip fat cream into foam, add icing sugar.
7. Now you need to put the cream on the orange cream. It is better to use a pastry bag with a nozzle, it will turn out beautifully.
8. Wash strawberries, you can not remove the ponytails, it looks original with them, decorate the cream. You can take canned strawberries. Also, raspberries, currants, blackberries, blueberries will work for decoration, all citruses are perfectly combined with them.
Citrus dessert with cookies and cottage cheese
Oranges or tangerines are used to make such a dessert. The delicacy is made very quickly, it can be collected in a common dish or laid out in portioned vases and glasses.
Ingredients
• 300 g of citruses;
• 300 g of cottage cheese;
• 120 g of cookies;
• 100 ml of milk;
• 2 tbsp. l sour cream;
• 4 tbsp. l Sahara;
• 1 tsp vanilla sugar;
• 1 tbsp. l grated chocolate.
Cooking
1. Peel citruses, cut into arbitrary pieces, as you like. You can slices or circles. It is advisable to remove all white villi and thick films.
2. It is better to take the curd fat, grind it with sugar, season with sour cream and vanilla.
3. Moisten cookies in milk, but do not hold for a long time, just dip them. Put on the bottom of the bowl.
4. Lubricate with a layer of curd, put slices of citrus.
5. Repeat layers and dessert is ready! Since the cookies were wet, he did not need to soak for a long time, but still it is better to keep the citrus dessert in the refrigerator for 40-60 minutes.
Peeled jelly citrus dessert
To prepare such a citrus dessert, you can use ready-made jelly, but you need to grow it steeper, that is, pour water less than the norm. But it is better to follow the recipe given, in this case the filling will harden, the citrus will be cut.
Ingredients
• 5-6 oranges;
• 500 ml of any juice, you can orange;
• 25 grams of gelatin;
• 7 tablespoons of sugar;
• 2 tablespoons of liquor.
Cooking
1. Combine half the juice with prescription gelatin. You can use lemonade or compote. It is good if it is orange or red, that is, natural colors. Leave gelatin for twenty minutes to swell.
2. Cut the oranges in half, remove all the flesh and squeeze the juice out of it. Combine with the juice that remains.
3. Add sugar, liquor to the juices, stir.
4. Melt gelatin, combine with juices, stir.
5. Pour the empty halves of citruses with the prepared syrup, do it carefully and immediately on the dish, it is advisable to fix the "boats" so that they do not lean.
6. Leave in the cold until completely solidified. It is advisable to withstand at least four hours, and preferably all night.
7. Use a sharp knife to chop the halves of the oranges with the jelly slices, put on a plate and the citrus dessert is ready! Such slices look very interesting if you fill the halves of oranges with juices of different colors.
Citrus dessert cake without baking
Variant of a simple cake without baking. Here are some products for a small citrus dessert. At will, we proportionally increase several times.
Ingredients
• 4 tsp gelatin;
• 4 tbsp. l Sahara;
• 300 grams of cottage cheese;
• 3 oranges;
• 250 ml cream;
• 150 ml of orange juice.
Cooking
1. Pour gelatin with half a glass of water, let it swell for now.
2. Wipe the cottage cheese, add the orange juice in parts, beat well.
3. Beat cream in a steaming foam, add sugar.
4. Combine the cream with the curd mass, gently stir.
5. Melt gelatin, add to the curd mass.
6. Peel oranges, cut into circles.
7. Cover the shape with a film, lay out slices of oranges on the bottom and sides.
8. Put the mass of cottage cheese with cream, smooth. If the pieces of oranges remain, then we also lay them out, slightly deepen.
9. Put the dessert for four hours in the refrigerator.
10. After completely hardening, cover the mold with a flat plate and gently turn the cake over.
11. Remove the film, the cake does not need decoration.
Citrus dessert with biscuit
Why not make a citrus pie for dessert. This is something similar to charlotte, but only incredible fragrant, light, with a bright taste and color. It uses tangerines with oranges, but you can take one type of citrus.
Ingredients
• 4 eggs;
• large orange;
• 3 tangerines;
• 160 g of sugar;
• 130 g flour;
• 7 grams of cultivator;
• a pinch of vanilla.
Cooking
1. You need to immediately turn on the oven to warm up, since everything else is preparing very quickly. Set the temperature to 180.
2. Immediately grease the form, sprinkle flour on top or just cover it with parchment, baking paper.
3. Wash citruses. Remove the zest from one orange and one mandarin. This is best done with a fine grater so as not to chop anything else.
4. Peel citruses, sort into slices. Leave the tangerines whole, cut the oranges in half.
5. Sift the flour with a baking cultivator to sift, introduce vanillin and previously prepared zest.
6. Mix sugar and eggs, turn on the mixer, beat all this for 5-7 minutes at the highest speed.
7. Introduce the zest flour, stir the dough.
8. Add slices of citruses, stir again.
9. Transfer the mass to the prepared form, send to the oven.
10. Bake a citrus pie until cooked, when serving, you can simply sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Citrus Dessert with Mascarpone
It uses oranges, but you can also take other types of citrus, but not sour. That is, lemons and limes will not work. Dessert has a spectacular appearance and noble taste, suitable for a festive table.
Ingredients
• 150 grams of mascarpone;
• 90 g of powder;
• 1 spoon of regular sugar (you can take brown);
• 300 ml of orange juice;
• 2 oranges;
• 1 tbsp. l gelatin;
• 200 ml cream (fatty).
Cooking
1. Rinse the oranges thoroughly and gently peel from one. Cut into even strips.
2. Pour a spoonful of sugar and a spoonful of water into the pan, put the prepared crusts and warm it all, that is, caramelize. As soon as the caramel flavor appears, put the pieces of the zest in a strainer, let cool.
3. Squeeze the juice from one orange, combine it with gelatin, set aside for about twenty minutes. The exact time of infusion is indicated by the manufacturer on the package.
4. The second orange also peel, break into slices. Then remove each film, cut into small pieces. You can immediately put in a bowl for dessert.
5. Melt the swollen gelatin, combine with orange juice, stir and pour slices of citrus in vases.
6. Put the dessert in the refrigerator for 15-20 minutes.
7. Beat cream with powder, add mascarpone. If desired, add cream with vanilla or any aromatic liquor.
8. Put the cream on top of the hardening jelly layer. The slide should be high.
9. Top decorate the dessert with caramel orange peels.
Citrus Dessert - Useful Tips and Tricks
• Zest - the most aromatic that is in citrus. It can be harvested for future use, after drying, the properties do not change. Wipe the citrus dry, gently remove the painted skin, lay on a flat surface, dry in a dark ventilated place. Then the crusts can simply be poured into a jar or chopped, use a sealed lid.
• On the peel of citruses a huge number of microbes and chemicals. It is important to rinse the fruit immediately upon entering the house. It is best to use warm water and laundry soap for this.
• Do I need to squeeze juice from citrus? Do not rush to cut it. First, put the fruits on the table, roll with pressure. After that, you need to cut it over the bowl, part of the juice will flow out immediately, and the remaining liquid will be squeezed out very easily.
