what is the zest of an orange?

Question

I need the zest of an orange for a receipe.

Answer 1

The very outside of the orange peel you can finely grate the peel to get the zest. There is a special tool that can do it for you but I'm guessing you don't have one and don't have time to go get one. Try a cheese grater with the smallest holes and grate just a small amount.
Good luck.

Answer 2

The best way to get the zest of an orange is to take a small handheld cheese grater and grate the outside of an orange. Only the outside dark orange is the zest. You only get a tablespoon or so off one orange.

Answer 3

you dont choose for any fancy kit, in case you have a grater, which will paintings, if no longer a small sharp knife will paintings besides.only shrink into very skinny stripes. The zest is only the best orange layer of the peel, do no longer use the pith, or white area, it has a very bitter style, and could smash in spite of you're cooking! of direction make beneficial and wash the orange extremely extremely nicely in the past zesting.

Answer 4

The zest is grading the skin of an orange.

Answer 5

It is the rind. Just the orange part. The pith (the white under the orange part) doesnt count as zest.

Answer 6

To get the zest of a citrus fruit, you simply scrape very thin pieces of the peel. Try hard not to get any of the white under the peel - that is bitter.

Answer 7

when they say the zest of an orange there talkin about the peel of the orange

Answer 8

The orange part of the peel. use the small size grater, but just the orange part so don't grate too hard

Answer 9

It's the outside, orange part of of peel. You grate a little bit, not too much.

Answer 10

yes, it's the skin of an orange, peeled or pared off in little thin strips...