2006-12-26 03:21:06 · 15 answers · asked by mity-mo 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
shaved orange peel. Get a zester, scrape orange. Do not scrape the white stuff, that ruins the taste. If you can find it, orange oil is a suitable substitute for the zest; because that is what the recipe is after, the oil in the orange skin. Hope this helps!
2006-12-26 03:27:55 · answer #1 · answered by Ice Queen 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The zest is the colored outer portion of the peel. It contains oils and colors. The flavors are very intense in the zest. Below the zest is the white part of the peel, or the pith. this is very bitter and not tasty in the least. When zesting an orange, lemon or what have you, only grate or peel the colored part and leave the white part behind to ge the best flavor.
You can use a zesting tool, which makes little curly cued strips from the zest, or a grater (using the smallest holes) being careful not to get into the white pith, or a micro plane (my favorite) do grate the zest into very thin little morsels....
I love zest and use it as often as I can when cooking. You'll learn to use it in a lot of dishes.
Good luck and have fun with it.
2006-12-26 13:44:47 · answer #2 · answered by kb6jra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the top orange colored part of the orange peel and contains the essential oils and the same goes for lemon zest too. Just no white pulp. The rinds are finely grated to produce the zest from the top portion of the skin only.
2006-12-26 19:06:56 · answer #3 · answered by COACH 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the oily orange part of the orange - to zest simply use the bumpy side of a four sided grater - rub just enough to get the orange part the with (pith) is very bitter. Good Luck!
2006-12-26 12:06:40 · answer #4 · answered by Walking on Sunshine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
orange zest is the outside layer that you take off with a grater.
2006-12-26 11:29:49 · answer #5 · answered by Kiki 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the shavings of the orange part of the orange peel.
2006-12-26 11:28:58 · answer #6 · answered by Turtle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a slice of orange peel
2006-12-26 11:28:15 · answer #7 · answered by GFAD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The very thin top layer of the orange skin, no white pulp.
2006-12-26 11:24:04 · answer #8 · answered by Peggy r 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the orange part of the peel
2006-12-26 11:24:01 · answer #9 · answered by george 2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the very orange part of the orange peel... get a zester or a microplaner and stay away from the white part, it's very bitter
2006-12-26 12:06:18 · answer #10 · answered by brown_iyed_grrl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋