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Folks,

I stumbled across some genuine Seville Sour Oranges at the 22nd & Irving Market the other day, and snagged them because it's one of those regional ingredients I can never seem to get my hands on.

Except now I'm not sure what I wanted them for. I've paged through my Spanish cookbooks but can't find the recipes I didn't make because I didn't have sour oranges. Anyone have any recipe recommendations?

(p.s. for future note, real sour orange juice tastes almost exactly like a mixture of half lemon juice, half sweet orange juice.)

Sorry, I did find a reference to cakes flavored with sour oranges in The Cooking of Spain and Portugal, but no recipe.

Pernil (a latin long-roasted picnic pork) is made with sour oranges as a marinade ingredient. I've made this several times and got the recipe this last year from the NYT. Very delicious. But I used the Goya sour orange marinade since we don't have access to sour oranges here. Let me know if you want the recipe.
Nancy

Nancy,

No, no pork for me. But thanks. I'll keep looking.

I thought that I remembered that you were vegetarian which I am too, most of the time, but mostly because I just don't care about the tastes. But Russ (my DH) really loves his braises and roasts so I do what I can to satisfy the taste buds of my favorite person.
Nancy

I have always wanted them for marmalade. Badly!

Hey Fuzzy,

Do you have Penelope Casas "Food and Wine of Spain". If not, I'll dig it out and look through it for you.

In Mexico sour oranges are cut in half, salted, coated with a paste of hot chili peppers, and eaten.

Hi Fuzzy,
I just read a recipe today from the Jamie at Home book by Jamie Oliver. The recipe is for a salad with avocado, roasted carrot, greens, croutons, etc. He roasts some oranges halved, along with the carrots. The juice from the oranges then becomes a basis for salad dressing. It really looks wonderful, he makes a rub with cumin, olive oil, etc for the carrot roasting. If interested I'll write it down for you here.

Marmalade, yes. An essential ingredient aren't they? What a nice find a winter day.

Lynn

Lindsay,

No, I don't. I have 3 other Spanish Cookbooks, though, so if you just point me towards some dishes I can probably find them in what I have.


Lynn,

D'oh! Since they were getting old, I already juiced them and froze the juice. Can I still make the dressing?