Tip of the Day: Use orange peels for bowls

by Alanna Kaufman, Posted Apr 25th 2008 @ 6:00AM

For me, the presentation of a dish is critically important. Here's a trick for turning orange peels into beautiful serving bowls for almost anything you can create.

Orange peel bowls are so simple to make, and they add such elegance to the table. You can make them a day in advance, but freeze them if you do. You may also want to freeze them if you are using them to serve something cold, like sorbet.

To make a bowl, place an orange on a table, and find where the navel is so that when you cut, the navel will be at the bottom of one of the bowls. Insert a knife into the center of the orange on the diagonal, and proceed to make similar inserts in a zig-zag formation around the fruit. Separate the halves. Running a thumb between the orange sections and the peel, carefully peel the fruit out of its peel. If the bowls won't stand up by themselves, cut a small slice off of each end to create a flat surface.

I've used these to serve orange and avocado salads, and they're also great for fruit salads, sweet potato mashes, sorbets and pretty much anything.

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