Filleting Oranges, Step by Step Instructions from a Professional Chef with Cooking Videos

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I would like to show you how to fillet oranges here. These instructions will help you to fillet oranges perfectly and safely.

You have probably asked yourself how to get the most beautiful orange fillets in many a salad recipe or fish, poultry and meat dish. Because fresh orange is sometimes the perfect accompaniment and brings a great flavour component to the plate.

Why fillets? The fibrous white on oranges is firm and tough and also slightly bitter. We don’t want that with our lovingly cooked or prepared food!

That’s why I’ve written down how to make the fillets step by step with photos. I also show you the most important tricks in the cooking video.

Enjoy watching and reading and good luck in your kitchen!

1. Filleting Oranges Photo Instructions

Then you and I will see how you can best get the beautiful fruit fillets. In my practice, the following steps have proven successful:

Prepare orange for peeling — Remove the ends of the orange with a smooth, clean cut.

Orange peel cut guide — After cutting off the ends, you can place the orange on the board and then remove the orange skin with the orange white by cutting along the fruit.

Peel the orange with a knife: remove the peel and the white skin by making deft cuts.

Cut out the orange fillet — Aus der geschälten Orange ohne weiße Haut kannst Du die Orangenfilets ausschneiden. Verwende ein sehr scharfes Messer, halte die geschälte Frucht in der Hand über einer Schüssel, schneide zwischen den weißen Fasern die Filets heraus.

Orange without fillet — Carefully and slowly cut the fillets out of the fruit all around. The fibres of the orange fruit remain.

Squeeze orange — Squeeze the remaining fruit without the pulp to obtain orange juice.

Oranges filleted lying in the orange juice. Always squeeze out the juice of the remaining fruit.

Orange fillets on kitchen board — Freshly cut orange fillets

2. Peel Oranges and Fillet Oranges Cooking Videos

For your cooking success, I have even prepared two films for you: Peeling oranges and filleting oranges.

Peel Orange Instruction Video:

Orange filleting instruction video:

Our food does not like tough pieces or bitter parts from the orange peel. Only the fine flesh of the orange goes on our plate!
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