Lemons are used in cooking entirely, but most often you will meet dishes with lemon juice. They are sprinkled with fish to get rid of the characteristic aroma. Seafood is pickled in it, added to salad dressings and sauces, and the taste of compotes, jam and jam cocktails is improved. Lemon juice can be used in creams, they also extinguish soda instead of vinegar. It is only important that there are no ingredients in the dish that are stratified by contact with acid.
What to Cook with Lemon Juice?
Dozens and hundreds of drinks are prepared on the basis of lemon juice. It is boiled in thick syrup, frozen in molds, added to sweets. A chicken or turkey watered with juice will be doubly tender and will definitely not dry out. Organic acids soften pork fibers so that the meat melts in the mouth. Lemon juice dishes are very popular in Chinese and Indian cuisine. After all, they even sprinkle herring with them when serving to the table!
How to Choose and Store Lemons?
High-quality fruits are dense, with a smooth skin, there are no dents and dark spots on them. With a short warming in warm hands, the lemon exudes an intense aroma inherent only in this citrus. Lemons are well preserved in the refrigerator. Additional time to the shelf life is added by packing each fruit in clean paper and placing lemons wrapped in a plastic bag in a separate chamber for vegetables and fruits. Long-term storage reduces the acidity of fruits, since a significant amount of citric acid is transformed into sugars over time. It prolongs the “life time” of lemons by immersing them for seconds in moderately hot molten paraffin: this creates a protective layer covering the fruit. Lemons are well stored in boxes with sand, which is pre-calcined for the purpose of disinfection.
Now it has become customary to cook in a slow cooker, and there are not so many recipes, even traditional ones. I decided to cook my favorite borscht in a slow cooker, it turned out even tastier than in a saucepan..If you have a slow cooker, try to cook this soup. It’s very tasty.
I suggest you cook a delicious and hearty lunch for the whole family. Juicy and melting in the mouth ribs in an interesting sauce with potatoes on the side. Here, for sure, no one can remain indifferent, especially the strong half. Love this sauce, marinate chicken, meat and even potatoes before baking, but not only for marinating, but also for serving the dish on the table. I usually added grated apple to the sauce, but you can take ready-made applesauce. Hot pepper can be replaced with paprika, if you like it sweeter. After cooking, the sauce is perfectly stored in the refrigerator.
And today we have borscht. And you? Yes, the most ordinary borscht, a standard set of products, but there is something unusual in it. I’ve tried a lot of borscht recipes, but I always come back to it. Of course, the set of products varies, that is, paprika, celery, beans, tomatoes, eggplants are added… Invariably one thing: mashed potatoes, lemon juice and sugar.
Rich in proteins, beautiful and bright fish soup with vegetables will be a wonderful treat for your guests. Historically, this soup was cheap and was prepared by Provencal fishermen in the evenings from fish that could not be sold in a day. But over time, it became very popular, and expensive fish and seafood (including lobsters) began to be added to it. Orange peel and saffron give a special piquancy to this soup – they are simply irreplaceable. Fennel with its special delicate taste and aroma is added to bouillabaisse almost always. And toasts with garlic mayonnaise harmoniously combine all the ingredients and set off their taste.
Borscht with mushrooms and zucchini is something incredible. Borscht turns out to be thick and rich, useful. It turns out incredibly delicious, so delicious that they cooked, ate, and three days later the family asked to repeat the recipe “for an encore”.