8 Easy Ideas And Recipes Using Oranges (2024)

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What can I do with lots of oranges? ›

Experiment with orange zest in everything from marinades to salad dressing to desserts like Toasted Coconut and Orange Icebox Cookies. Nothing chases away the winter blues like fiery San Diego-Style Blue Corn Salmon Tacos with Orange-Habanero Hot Sauce.

The most important product made from oranges in the United States is frozen concentrated juice. Essential oils, pectin, candied peel, and orange marmalade are among the important by-products. Sour, or Seville, oranges are raised especially for making marmalade.

If you find yourself with a bounty of our favorite sweet citrus fruits and you run out of orange desserts to make, you can stash your extra oranges in the freezer to enjoy later.

Boiling the oranges softens the peel of the oranges and makes them easier to chop finely in a food processor (or by hand). Also boiling the oranges tends to mellow the pith of the orange (the white part of the skin) - the pith tends to be quite bitter and could leave an unpleasant taste in the cake if it was used raw.

Dip a cut orange in coarse, raw sugar and gently scrub your skin with it to exfoliate. “The coarse sugar removes the dead skin and oils and juices from the orange soften the skin,” one Taste of Home editor says. You can try this on your face, hands, and feet.

Oranges are a hybrid of two citrus fruit: a pomelo and a mandarin, with 25% of its genome coming from the pomelo and 75% from the mandarin.

How to make the orange chicken sauce. The orange sauce is made from a mixture of the orange juice and zest, sugar, soy sauce, garlic, ginger and rice vinegar. This is bubbled up in the wok until slightly thickened. The chicken is then added back in, and tossed in the sauce until fully coated.

Can dogs eat oranges? ›

Oranges can be a healthy snack for dogs, but serving large amounts of them can cause potential harm. Seedless navel oranges are preferable, but dogs can eat all kinds of oranges, including blood oranges, Bergamot oranges, clementines and more.

Oranges can be kept at room temperature for 1-2 days. If you are not going to eat them that quickly, store them in the refrigerator. Oranges can be kept in the fridge for up to two weeks. If you bought a lot of them, try making Quick & Easy Mexican Salad, or Mixed Greens w/Fresh Oranges & White Beans to use them up.

Not only can you eat orange peels, you can actually benefit from doing so, says Healthline. Eating orange peels can help protect against skin cancer, due to the naturally occurring limonene chemical. It also acts as an anti-inflammatory.

The Best Way to Make Your Oranges Last Longer:

Store them in your refrigerator crisper drawer, as opposed to room temperature. If your garage is around the same temperature as your refrigerator, you can store them there too. Store with lemons and avocados in the crisper drawer to increase the shelf life.

The one exception is if you're preserving oranges: you'll need a more acidic juice, such as lemon, lime or grapefruit. Since you'll be eating the peel, consider using organic fruit, which is less likely to have traces of commonly used pesticides.