East Asia

Dried Pomelo Peel

Citrus maxima, peel.

Fruit peel.

Part Used

Dried, thick peel.

Form

You pi (Mandarin, general term for pomelo peel, dried).

Southern China.

Bitter, citrusy, coarser and more robustly bitter than dried tangerine peel.

Minor regional use in some soups and braises, and in traditional medicine; less prominent than chenpi overall.

Some Cantonese soups.

Pork, duck, other braising aromatics.

Add early in a long simmer.

Keeps well over a year sealed and dark.

Dried tangerine peel as the closer, more widely available substitute.

Distinctly less prominent in mainstream Chinese cooking than chenpi.

Not typically part of a standard dry spice blend.