If you throw away the tangerine peels you are making a big mistake, like reusing them

Some ideas to reuse mandarin peels avoiding waste. Not only recipes but also home decorations

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It's time for tangerines, tasty and healthy fruits, also appreciated by children. Nothing of these citrus fruits is thrown away, not even the peel or rather the rind. So here are some ideas for reusing it.

Are you consuming a lot of tangerines these days? As a result, you will be throwing lots of peels into the wet. A real shame, considering how many things you can do with mandarin peels, thus avoiding wasting them.

You can reuse them in the kitchen to prepare unexpected recipes but also make some colorful and fragrant decorations for the home with their help.

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Candied tangerine peels

Usually the candied orange peels are prepared but the same procedure can be used to make the mandarin peels tasty. Of course it is important to choose unprocessed or organic tangerines, to avoid ingesting pesticides.

Candle with tangerine peel

We had proposed to you to recycle the orange peels by creating a candle. Just pour oil into them and insert a wick (you can follow the procedure indicated here). The same thing can be done using the peel of a mandarin cut in half, of course it is good to choose the largest fruits possible.

If you throw away the tangerine peels you are making a big mistake, like reusing them

Tangerine flavored oil

If you want to give a citrus touch to your dishes, you can recycle the tangerine peels by preparing a flavored oil. It is a very simple procedure, just use the peel of 5 mandarins for every 500 ml of extra virgin olive oil to be flavored. After putting the oil and the peels in a glass bottle, keep them in a dark place for 10 days, finally filter the oil with a sieve and put it back in the bottle.

Salt flavored with mandarin

Another possibility is to flavor the salt, a very simple recipe so as not to waste the peels of this citrus fruit. Use half grated tangerine peel for every 12 teaspoons of salt. Put the salt on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper and let it dry at 50 ° for about 10-15 minutes. Then put it in a glass jar that you will leave open until it has cooled down.

Infusion of tangerine peels

With tangerine peels you can also prepare a tasty infusion. Put a couple of tablespoons of well washed and cut peel in a saucepan with water, bring to a boil and leave on the stove for a few minutes. Finally turn off and let it rest for another 5 minutes, then filter and enjoy your infusion sweetening to taste with a little honey.

Potpourri

Mandarin peels can also be useful for decorating and scenting your home along with other ingredients: orange peel, lavender, dried flowers, spices such as cinnamon or cloves, etc. You can also put the mandarins in a colorful and fragrant pout pourri.

If you throw away the tangerine peels you are making a big mistake, like reusing them

Mandarine marmalade

Did you know that you can also use the peel in tangerine jam? Here you will find several recipes to experiment with.

Certainly the tangerine peels can be used in many other ways, even to entertain children by proposing them for example to glue them on a sheet, together with other elements or enriching the "job" with the help of pencils, colors, watercolors, etc.

In short, whenever possible, we try to reuse them avoiding waste.