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Jar of mandarin marmalade on a serving board with a spoon, with freshly sliced open mandarin and leaves on the side.
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Mandarin Marmalade

This easy mandarin marmalade is bright and tangy. With just four ingredients it's an excellent way of using up lots of mandarins when your tree is producing heaps!
Servings: 3.5 ish, cups of marmalade.

Ingredients

  • 1 kg mandarins
  • 2 liters water
  • 1.5 kgs white sugar
  • ½ cup lemon

Instructions

  • Wash and dry your jars, lids and utensils ready to steralize. Freeze a small plate.
  • Slice the mandarins into quarters. Remove the pips.
  • Thinly slice the mandarins.
  • Add the mandarins, water and sugar to a large pot.
  • Bring to the boil, stirring until the sugar dissolved. Reduce heat to medium low until the peel is soft and the pith is going translucent. Usually about 1 hour, but can take longer. Stir frequently to prevent catching.
  • Steralize you lids, jars and utensils.
  • Increase the heat to medium high and bring to the boil.
  • Skim the foam from the edge and centre of the marmalade.
  • Add the lemon juice.
  • Boil rapidly for 10 minutes, stirring frequently to prevent catching. Remove from heat.
  • Test the marmalade is done. Add a small amount to the frozen plate. Cool. Gently push the marmalade with your finger. If it wrinkles, it's done.
  • If not, boil the marmalade for a further 5 mins and retest.
  • Transfer piping hot marmadae into hot, steralized jars and screw on steralized lids.
  • Cool completely, then label with contense and date and you're done!

Notes

Ingredients:
Imperial or Sumo mandarins work well.  If you are outside Australia see the Tips for Sucess and FAQs for alternative varieties.  
You do not need to use jam set or setting sugar.  The mandarins and lemon juice have enough pectin in them to set the marmalade on their own.    
Storage:
In clean, sterilized jars for a year or more in a cool, dry place.  Once opened store in the fridge and use within a month.
Always check homemade marmalade jam before eating.  If it looks or smells bad don't eat it.