Lemon Peel Is So Delicious: Recipe Ideas!

Lemon peel can be used to refine many dishes and flavor them naturally.

The lemon peel is delicious and doesn’t really belong in the trash or compost until you can’t do anything with it anymore. And that you can do a lot with it, you will find out today in this article.

Lemon peel – always organic, please!

If you buy a conventionally grown lemon, you should always wash it thoroughly, ideally with a sponge and some soap, before you cut it open and squeeze its juice. Have you ever thought about it?

Not only are pesticides such as herbicides, fungicides and pesticides on the skin, but also waxes and agents that prevent the fruit from going moldy.

The bowl becomes a poison cocktail.

If you then have the lemon with the unwashed peel in your hand during further processing (squeezing out juice, cutting, etc.), you use your palms and fingers to spread the poison cocktail on other foods and ultimately in your food. Good Appetite…

If you want to continue using the lemon peel, washing it thoroughly is not enough and you should definitely buy organically grown lemon.

In this way you make sure that you really only have lemon with the abrasion of the lemon peel and not the poison cocktail of the treated peel! You can then continue to use the pure lemon peel, we have ideas for you!

Lemon pepper

Lemon pepper is great for seasoning fresh summer salads.

It goes very well with all salads in which you use lemon juice instead of vinegar for dressing. Lemon pepper also goes very well for seasoning fish and chicken dishes as well as for vegetables, which thus get a summery, fresh, fruity note. You need:

• 1 serving of white pepper, ground
• 2 lemons

Empty the contents of the spice jar or jar into a bowl. Do not breathe in, the dust will irritate the mucous membranes!

Then rub the peel of the two lemons. The finer the grater, the better! Then mix the fresh peeled peel into the pepper and pour the mixture into a tightly fitting glass so that the essential oils do not evaporate and bind nicely with the pepper.

An ideal present for a barbecue evening!

Lemon sugar

In baking books you often read of “lemon peel aroma” as an ingredient. You don’t need this artificial stuff if you make your own lemon sugar! You need:

• 1 lemon
• 2 tablespoons of table sugar

Please do not use powdered sugar! Rub the lemon zest and mix it with the sugar.

If you keep the lemon sugar in a tightly closing container, you can use it not only to refine cakes and pastries, but also to flavor desserts.

How about lemon sugar with strawberries, in a fruit salad, as a decoration on the edge of the glass, in stiff cream, in quark dishes or on ice? You are sure to find many uses!

lemonade

If you’ve already used up the lemon juice, that doesn’t mean you can’t make another drink from the lemon after all! All you need is a blender, stand mixer or strong hand blender, some water and a sweetener of your choice.

The mixing ratio should be roughly

• 1 lemon
• 1 liter of water

be. Cut the bowl into small pieces ( the bowl should be organic and washed! ) And fill a vessel with water.

Now puree vigorously so that a milky liquid is formed. Sweeten to taste and drain through a sieve. Wonderful when freshly chilled or with ice cubes!

Speaking of ice cubes …

Flavored ice cubes

What you can always use are delicious ice cubes that look appetizing! To do this, simply cut the lemon peel into strips and put a piece in each compartment of the ice cube maker , and pour water over it to cool and flavor drinks.

Speaking of flavoring …

Flavored water

If you cut the leftover pieces of lemon peel into slices, rings or cubes, you can use them to flavor your drinking water. It’s calorie-free and tastes fresh!

Room fragrance

Cut the lemon peel into small pieces and then fill them decoratively in a bowl that you then place on the radiator.

The lemon scent spreads quickly through the room through the warm air. If you pack the lemon peel pieces in an organza bag, then  you can hang the bag on the rear-view mirror in the car and create a nice fragrance experience there too.

Dishwasher end

You really can’t think of anything to do with the lemon peel left over after squeezing the juice? Then simply put the bowls in the dishwasher for the next wash cycle.

This saves you the dishwasher, which only works with artificial flavors anyway …