Update: thanks to the many who pointed out that this is actually a mandarin. I have seen the regular mandarins that come individually packed during Chinese New Year but this one was huge so I got confused. Thanks for clarifying, you all know who you are 🙂 Chinese New Year time is when all sorts of oranges in different shapes and form enter the market. Although this is our 4th Chinese New Year in Singapore, neither of us had seen an orange this big. So we did what any curious person would do and bought one. It peeled like any other orange would do but with a bit more resistance. The skin was thick, the insides were more fibrous and the seeds were huge. We both bit into one piece with great anticipation but owwww, it was very very sour. So I did the obvious thing and juiced it. That one orange + a few drops of lemon juice gave us three 200ml glasses of orange lemon juice. I altered the proportion of orange : lemon in each glass which explains the difference in colours. We polished off all three glasses of juice in a matter of minutes! Make these for guests or your dehydrated kids/selves when the sun is hot and there’s that lull between breakfast and lunch. Your body will thank you for it. I don’t like pulp in my orange juice so passed the juice through a relatively fine-meshed sieve. You can squeeze the juice directly using a hand-juicer and just remove the seeds if that’s what you prefer. I used my blender for the job.

Ingredients:

3-4 of regular-sized oranges or 1 large orange if you can find them 1/2 of a lemon 2-3 tbsp of sugar (adjust to taste)

How to Make Orange Lemon Juice:

Peel the oranges and add them to a blender. Alternately, you can use a hand-juicer and juice them with the pulp intact. Blend the oranges and pass through a sieve or mesh to remove the hard fibres and pulp. Squeeze the desired amount of lemon and add sugar. Chill and add ice cubes before serving

Notes: – Don’t make this too much in advance – about 30 mins max before you need to serve is ideal – Add ice cubes just before serving, otherwise the juice will become too dilute from the melting ice cubes – Adjust the proportion of orange and lemon to your taste