Tips for Cooking with Pink Grapefruit

Pink grapefruit is a great ingredient to cook with. The tangy sweetness of pink grapefruit adds a lot of depth and flavor to both savory and sweet dishes. Desserts made from pink grapefruit are often very light and refreshing and are fantastic for summer meals when the weather is warm. Pink grapefruit, when combined with oranges and tangerines and other citrus fruits, can be used to create dozens of healthy and delicious meals that your entire family will love. Cooking with fresh fruit is easy and doesn’t require a lot of preparation. Most of the time when you’re cooking with pink grapefruit you will be using either zest of the grapefruit or freshly squeezed juice, so investing in a good zester and a good juicer is really essential if you want o use pink grapefruit in your cooking. Many gourmet chefs swear by using pink grapefruit to liven up dishes and add a touch of sweetness to sauces and other recipes. Here are their tips for using pink grapefruit when you’re cooking to make your meals taste like a gourmet chef cooked them:
Always remove the pith – the pith of any citrus fruit, the white just inside the skin, is bitter and pink grapefruit is no exception. When you are peeling pink grapefruit to zest you have to be sure to remove all the pith before zesting the peel or you will be adding bitterness to your dish instead of a light and refreshing sweetness. After you peel the pink grapefruit wash the rind and make sure you remove all the pith before zesting the peel.
Replace water with fresh grapefruit juice in recipes – an easy and unexpected way to add a little flavor to recipes is to use pink grapefruit juice instead of water in your favorite recipes. Pink grapefruit juice used in sauces will add a light citrus taste that can balance out an otherwise heavy sauce making the sauce a perfect blend of savory and sweet. Using fresh pink grapefruit juice in salad dressings adds a great depth of flavor to spicy sauces and can change up your usual salad dressings very nicely. Pink grapefruit juice added to cake mixes and other desserts is a fabulous way to add flavor and sweetness without using refined sugar. If you want to experiment with natural cooking that doesn’t use refined sugar pink grapefruit juice is a great ingredient to use.

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