Honey Grapefruit Tea
1.
First, clean the skin of the grapefruit, wipe off the water, and then take an appropriate amount of salt, and scrub the surface of the grapefruit with your hands repeatedly, the purpose is to rub off the fruit wax on the grapefruit skin.
2.
Use a planer to scrape off the grapefruit peel, try not to scratch the white part, because the white part is more bitter, the made grapefruit tea will have a bitter taste.
3.
Use a knife to cut the scraped grapefruit skin into shreds, as thin as possible, so that it is easy to boil.
4.
Put the right amount of salt in the right amount of water, put the shredded grapefruit peel in it, soak for 1 hour to remove the bitterness,
5.
Peel off the grapefruit meat,
6.
Add 500 grams of water and rock sugar to the pot and boil together. Stir occasionally when cooking to prevent the rock sugar from sticking to the pot until all the rock sugar is boiled.
7.
Pour all the grapefruit peels into the pot and cook,
8.
Then pour in the grapefruit meat and cook it together,
9.
Slowly cook over medium and low heat, about 40 minutes. Be careful to keep turning, otherwise it will stick to the pot. When the grapefruit skin becomes transparent and the soup becomes thick, the heat may be turned off.
10.
Put it in a pot to cool slowly, then pour in honey and mix well, then it can be bottled and stored in refrigeration.
Tips:
1. You can choose grapefruit with a red heart, which will make the color more beautiful.
2. Try not to have the white part of the grapefruit peel, because that part is bitter and will affect the taste of grapefruit tea.
3. Use small pieces of rock sugar as much as possible so that it is easy to dissolve, and keep turning over while cooking to prevent sticking to the pot.
4. When adding honey, wait until it is cold, and do not add honey when the temperature is too high, because the nutrition of honey will be destroyed under high temperature conditions.
5. The prepared honey grapefruit tea can be stored in refrigeration for 3 months, of course, the container for the honey grapefruit tea must be cleaned.
