My parents have a Mandarin tree that is abundant with fruit and we have been given loads of sweet mandarins. For some reason, I am the only person in my family who eats mandarins. I don’t want to waste the fruit so made up a batch of Mandarin Marmalade so I can enjoy the taste of mandarins throughout the year.
Ingredients:
1 kg (2.2 lbs) mandarins
750 g ( 1.65 lbs) sugar
3 cups water
juice of one lemon
(makes 4 cups marmalade)
Method:
1. Peel mandarins, remove the pith and set aside. Cut the peel of half the mandarins into thin strips.
2. Chop the mandarin segments and remove the seeds.
3. Using a square of muslin, wrap the seeds and pith, and tie with baking twine.(the seeds and pith have a high pectin content and will help marmalade to gel).
4. Place mandarin, peel strips, sugar, lemon juice, water, and bundle of seeds into a large saucepan. Stir constantly over medium heat until sugar is dissolved.
5. Bring the mixture to the boil, then reduce the heat and let it simmer for 1-2 hours until marmalade gels. Test the jam for gel point by putting a little on a chilled saucer. If you can run your finger though a pool of jam without it running back together, it is ready.
When marmalade is ready, discard seed bundle and pour hot marmalade into hot sterilised jars.
Delicious on hot buttered toast!
You can find the cute Polka Dotted Jar Lids at Lark. You can see more of our wonderful Lark purchases here.
Your marmelade looks so delicious!!!! And the polka dot glasses are so cute! I have never seen some like that!
Happy day,
kiki
Still to try something like this
YUM. How can anyone not like mandarin marmalade?
How do I convert the recipe? And where did you get those darling jars?
Lisa, dear, this is a very popular fruit in Brasil, we call it tangerine here in the South. Aila and I love this fruit. We have it every day during the whole tangerine season. I am sure your jam is extremelly delicious!!!
Thanks for sharing this recipe!!
Much love, Bela
Ohhhh i’m definitely going to try this recipe, absolutely love mandarin marmalade, & homemade is always so much nicer 🙂
Thanks for sharing the recipe
Karen x
thank you:-)))
best wishes barbara
This recipe is so timely, I have a case of mandarins sitting here. I must make this
I made orange marmelade a few years ago, but your recipe looks SO much easier. I think the key is using the pith+seeds for extra pectin. In my recipe, you cooked it, let it stand overnight, then cooked some more. I worked 2 days, everything in the kitchen was sticky-icky, and yield was 3 tiny jars. i’ve been purchasing marmelade ever since 🙂
Orange and blue polka dot lids are so pretty together. Yum.
Mandarin oranges only show up here as canned ( tinned)…. would this work for Clementines? I always pick them up at the grocery store because they remind my daughter of her time in Morocco in the Peace Corps. They are small and thin skinned and have to be bought by the boxful… so marmalade would be a nice way to use them up!!
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My husband is very keen to try this recipe! We are ordering more fruit on the weekend so will get extra mandarins, must order some of those jar lids as well. Thanks for sharing!
this looks absolutely amazing xx
C.
Receita interessante!
Love it. We’ve made jam, but not marmalade! Cheers!
love your marmalade photos and recipe..i make marmalade a lot but i’ve never made it with mandarins..i will be now..thanks..jane
Holy Pale Blue Polka Dots! That could not have been a better post to read right about now. Two reasons, actually three.
1. I, too, have a glut of mandarins. Apparently I am their only fan, also.
2. Just received a parcel from Lark with THE VERY SAME FEATURED LIDS! I’m so ordering the red ones next time, too. I seem to recall you couldn’t resist all their pretty colour-ways!
3. Marmalade is compulsory. I usually make a batch of Magical Marmalade – the magic being the addition of mixed spices and ginger – try it and you will not question the magic bit. Divine. Oh! And some vanilla, too. Incredible. BUT, I am yet to try mandarin! Isn’t that odd? Since I love Marmalade so much if I had birthed a gal she would have been named thusly. Perhaps, for the best, she never arrived. I’m a kid from the 80s. Fellow kin will understand, if they watched the ABC, or channel 2!
3.
Made marmalade last night after being inspired by this post, turned out beautifully. Enjoyed it on my toast this morning.