The market · Fruit · Southern Europe, The Americas

Seville oranges

The bitter orange: sour, seedy, too harsh to eat raw, and the orange for marmalade.

bitter · sour · citrusy · fragrant
Seville oranges

What to do with it

Ibu Sari's Beef rendangSeville orange would cut through its richnessRosa Ibarra's Clarified milk punch, mezcal and pineappleSeville orange would temper its sweetnessAna Etxarri's Pil pilSeville orange would cut through its richnessTolu Adeyemi's SuyaSeville orange would cut through its richness

If you can't find it

Greengrocers, for a few weeks in January.

  1. 1Orange
    Half orange juice, half lemon juice, with both zests
    You lose the bitter, aromatic peel.

Goes with

sugarduckachiote pastepork shoulder

Knowing it

Where to buy
Greengrocers in January. They freeze whole, so marmalade can wait.
A little history
Most of Seville's crop is shipped to Britain for marmalade. In Yucatán the bitter orange, naranja agria, is the juice in cochinita pibil.
Worth knowing
No Seville oranges? Two parts orange juice to one part lime is the usual stand-in.

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