Moroccan · Dessert
Orange & Cinnamon Salad
- Easy
- 10 min
- roughly 1 of 4 for cost
- Vegetarian
- Vegan option
Leads with warm spice humming through the middle, a sweet edge rounding the corners, closing toasted and warm.
Ingredients
- 4 oranges
- 1 tbsp orange-blossom water
- Cinnamon
- Powdered sugar or honey
- Mint, chopped dates or almonds optional
The skills inside
Chilling to firm: the fridge as binder
The words inside
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Method
- Peel oranges to the flesh; slice into wheels, catching juice.
- Arrange; sprinkle with orange-blossom water and sugar.
- Dust cinnamon in stripes.
- Chill 20 min; mint on top. 20 min
How to tell it is going right
This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.
Chilling to firm: the fridge as binder 48 recipes
- It went cold before it was handled any further, and it went in spread flat and covered rather than as a warm mass that insulates its own centre.
- It is cold through rather than cold at the edge: tested at the middle it is as firm as it is at the rim.
- It holds its shape unsupported; it can be cut, portioned, rolled or lifted without slumping, tearing, or sticking to the hands.
- The fat in it has gone solid: it feels firm and waxy to the fingers rather than greasy and yielding.
- It survives the step it was chilled for, going into heat or a coating or a mould still holding its form rather than collapsing the moment it is touched.
Where it goes wrong It was given twenty minutes instead of the hours it needed, so it is firm at the rim and soft at the core: it slumps out of shape as it is portioned, and everything made from it spreads or breaks apart in the pan.
At the Table
- The Pour
- Sauternes
- Also Right
- Demi-sec Champagne
- From the Taps
- Belgian tripel
- Zero-Proof
- Jasmine tea
The sweetness rule is absolute: the pour must be sweeter than the plate, and acid keeps it from cloying.
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