Step-by-step guide to creating fragrant and crispy pomelo peel preserves for Tet festivities

Pomelo peel preserves ensure not just elasticity but also a delightful fragrance with a pleasant pomelo scent and a sweet jelly-like flavor. You can easily make pomelo peel preserves to treat the whole family during Tet.

1. Step-by-step guide to creating fragrant and crispy pomelo peel preserves for Tet festivities

Pomelo peel preserves guarantee not only elasticity but also a delightful fragrance with a pleasant pomelo scent and a sweet jelly-like flavor. You can easily make pomelo peel preserves to treat the whole family during Tet.

Ingredients:
- Pomelo peel (choose peel that's not too old or dry)
- Sugar, salt
- Citric acid
- Stainless steel pot
- Non-stick pan

How to make pomelo peel preserves with a non-stick pan:
Step 1: Prepare the ingredients
- Cut the pomelo peel into long pieces about 5 cm, remove the white pith
- Dissolve salt in water and soak the pomelo peel in salt water for about 7 hours

- After soaking for enough time, take out the pomelo peel and squeeze it several times with water to remove excess oil and bitter taste from the peel
- Rinse thoroughly several times, then drain in a basket

Step 2: Boil the pomelo peel
- Put the prepared pomelo peel into a stainless steel pot

- Add water and 1 teaspoon of citric acid into the stainless steel pot (citric acid helps increase crispiness)
- Boil the prepared pomelo peel for about 3 – 5 minutes
- Drain the pomelo peel in a basket and rinse thoroughly with clean water to remove the citric acid flavor (you can gently squeeze the pomelo peel to remove excess water)
- Let it drain

Step 3: Soak in sugar
- Put the pomelo peel into a large bowl
- Add sugar and mix well, then soak for about 5 hours for the sugar to penetrate into the pomelo peel

Step 4: Sun dry
- Put the pomelo peel in a pan and stir over gas stove until the water is almost dry

- Reduce the heat, continue stirring until the pomelo peel becomes dry and the sugar crystallizes white, sticking around the pomelo peel, then turn off the stove.

Congratulations on completing the delicious and enticing pomelo peel preserves!