What Are Mandarin oranges and How Can I Use Them?

Mandarin oranges is easier to cook with than it looks. Here's how to choose, use, and store them, what to substitute, and 127 recipes to get you started.

Nutrition

Where found

Mandarin oranges are usually found in the canned goods section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.

Food group

Mandarin oranges are a member of the Fruits and Fruit Juices US Department of Agriculture nutritional food group.

How much do mandarin oranges weigh?

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Recipes using mandarin oranges

There are 127 recipes that contain this ingredient.

Mandarin Cake

Flour-free mandarin cake made with whole boiled tangerines, ground almonds, and eggs. Naturally gluten-free with an intense, moist citrus crumb that melts on the tongue.

Orange Glazed Sole

Delicate sole (or other whitefish) glazed with an orange almond glaze. Quick, easy and sophisticated.

Mandrin Orange & Green Salad

Mandarin orange and mixed greens salad with toasted pine nuts and a white wine vinaigrette. A quick five-ingredient low-calorie side salad ready in 10 minutes.

Mrs. Picky's Pig Pickin Cake

When you want to take a wonderful cake to any social event, make a pig pickin cake.

Sheila's Mandarin Orange Cake

Sheila made this Mandarin Cake this morning to take to our Paella lunch with Spanish friends. They go crazy for it.

Favourite Mandarin Orange Cake

Mandarin orange cake layers a fluffy box cake with crushed mandarins and juice, then frosts it with a no-cook whipped topping, vanilla pudding, and crushed pineapple filling. Easy retro potluck favorite.

Caribbean Rice

Tropical rice side dish loaded with mandarin oranges, crushed pineapple, toasted coconut, slivered almonds, and mango chutney. Ready in 30 minutes.

Mandarin Orange Chicken

This is my rendition of a recipe from an old Campbell's Soup cook book.

Pig Lickin' Cake

A delicious and super moist cake made with mandarin oranges, pineapple and whipped topping.

Quick & Easy Frog's Eye Salad

A delicious kind of salad made with mandarin oranges, pineapple chunks, flaked coconut and whipped topping.

Beef Baked in a Barrel

Showstopping ground beef flambeed with brandy, mixed with pineapple and mandarin oranges, then baked inside hollowed-out pineapple shells. A retro dinner party centerpiece that earns its 5-star rating.

Veggie Vomit

Veggie vomit is a Halloween gross-out lime jello salad with grated cabbage, carrots, crushed pineapple, and mandarin oranges. Kids love the gross name; the salad tastes great.

Orange Gelatin Dessert

Orange gelatin dessert with vanilla ice cream stirred into the Jello and layered with mandarin oranges. A creamy, dreamsicle-flavored retro treat with just 4 ingredients.

Hot Fruit Compote

Baked hot fruit compote with plums, peaches, and mandarin oranges in a brown sugar-lemon glaze. A warm, easy dessert or brunch side from pantry staples.

Pig Lickin Cake

Pig Lickin Cake is a Southern potluck favorite made with yellow cake mix and mandarin oranges, topped with a creamy pineapple and vanilla pudding frosting. Easy and no-bake frosting.

Fruit Compote in Rose

Fruit compote in rose wine: layered pineapple, peaches, pears, bananas, oranges, and grapes set in watermelon gelatin and rosé. Feeds 25 at a buffet.

Brigitte's Fruit Salad

Fresh fruit with sliced almonds, a splash of rum, and a golden broiled meringue topping. Part fruit salad, part baked Alaska. A showstopping warm dessert ready in 20 minutes.

Sunburst Chocolate Cake

Light chocolate layer cake filled with whipped citrus cream and mandarin orange segments. Made with egg substitute and skim milk, this stunning low-fat dessert tastes far more indulgent than it is.

Joyce's Delight

Creamy ambrosia fruit salad with mandarin oranges, pineapple chunks, coconut, mini marshmallows, and sour cream. A no-cook, make-ahead holiday side dish.

Unbelievable Fruit Salad

Fruit salad with mandarin oranges, pineapple, blueberries, and seedless grapes folded into a whipped cream and sour cream base with grated chocolate candy bars.

Sweet-N-Sour Stir-Fry

Vegetarian sweet and sour stir-fry loaded with snow peas, broccoli, enoki mushrooms, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, and tropical fruit (pineapple, mango, mandarin orange) over rice.

Five Cup Fruit Salad

Five cup fruit salad with mandarin oranges, pineapple chunks, sour cream, mini marshmallows, and flaked coconut. A creamy, no-cook retro side dish that chills overnight.

Chicken with Mandarin Oranges

Boiled chicken in cream of mushroom sauce with mandarin oranges, sliced mushrooms, and water chestnuts. A retro casserole-style dinner with sweet citrus and savory cream sauce, served over rice.

Very Sunshine Ice Cream Pie

Sunshine ice cream pie with layers of vanilla ice cream and orange sherbet on a graham cracker crust, topped with mandarin oranges and toasted coconut. No-bake summer dessert.

Orange-Glazed Ham

Orange-glazed ham for two in 10 minutes flat: sliced cooked ham and celery microwaved with mandarin oranges in a quick cornstarch-thickened ginger sauce. Weeknight dinner, dorm-room friendly.

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