Our gastronomy is varied and tasty, a mixture of flavours, smells and textures. From the simplest to the most complicated.
Venezuelan sweets do not escape from this reality, the traditional sweets that have passed from generation to generation are my favourites, those that unfortunately you can no longer find in the bodegas.
Looking to recreate through the gastronomic memory I have made canned grapefruit or martinica (my favourite) noting every detail to leave captured and that my recipe is not lost in time.
Here is the step by step to prepare this delicious canned food, which is just like the one I used to eat when I was a child.
Ingredients
700 grams of grapefruit (Approximately 4 large grapefruit).
700 grams of sugar.
Procedure
Remove the skin from the grapefruit, cut them into slices and place them in a bowl with water to cover them, leave them to stand for 2 days, changing the water several times a day so that they remove the greenery.
The last change of water they should be washed very well and each slice carefully squeezed, then cut into small squares.
They are taken to a pot and placed over low heat for a few seconds, this in order to remove the water, then add the sugar little by little and stir with a wooden paddle, do not stop stirring to prevent sticking, we will know that it is ready because when stirring we can see the bottom of the pot, remove from heat and serve on a tray where it will be spread and allowed to cool and then cut with a wet knife the size you want.
WOW esto se ve realmente genial, mi abuelita solía hacernos conservas de toronja (soy colombiana) pero nunca aprendí la receta y había buscado en google pero era totalmente diferente a lo que ella solía hacer. No pensé que la receta original que mi abuela solía preparar fuera venezolana, al parecer de ser paises hermanos compartimos mas de lo que pensaba. Muchas gracias por compartir esto! Ahora por fin podré hacer 😁
Que bueno que puedas hacerla. Espero que te quede como la de abuela.
Y si, las conservas de coco, toronja y la plátano forman parte de la dulcería criolla de los venezolanos, por estar tan cercanos compartimos tradiciones con nuestros hermanos colombianos.