Passionately Raw!

Already in December 2024 I announced that there will be more recipes with orange peel. This one is a delicious pesto that can be used not only on pasta, raw and cooked, but also as a sauce for hearty burgers, or raw and cooked vegetables. It is bitter-sweet, spicy, incredibly fragrant, and it improves in taste when stored in refrigerator overnight. Most citrus peel recipes use the zest and discard the white pith and this is what I sometimes do as well, but in many of my recipes I use the entire peel, with the pith layer because of the high content of the antioxidant bioflavonoids quercetin and hesperidin. The white layer also contains fiber and pectin. The entire orange peel has more nutrients, including Vitamin C, than the orange itself. In Traditional Chinese Medicine the bitter taste (flavor) is considered beneficial for the heart and digestion. Bitter foods stimulate digestion and detoxification and may help calm inflammation in the body. Orange peel has a cooling effect on the bod...