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.
The eggplant season begins! I want to offer you a very summer, spicy salad with an interesting combination of products, which is very easy to prepare and will be good both for a light dinner and just as an addition to the table for kebabs or other meat dishes.
I want to share a recipe for juicy, crispy and very tasty mini chebureks with squid filling. Squid meat does not have a fishy smell, and minced meat from it turns out tender and juicy. My dough is without eggs, it is very elastic, it is perfectly molded, but it does not stick to my hands. Thanks to all these features, it turns out an unusually juicy filling and cheburek, which does not flow and even when cooled remains crispy.
Babaganush is a popular Middle Eastern snack-sauce. It is a close relative of our eggplant caviar or Georgian ajapsandali, but the taste and texture are completely different. Eggplant puree is very tender and soft, generously flavored with oriental spices and tahini paste. It is ideal to serve pate with toast, pita bread, pita, crackers, baguette – it is incredibly delicious and beautiful.
Meunière sauce is an oil sauce of the national French cuisine, which perfectly reveals the charm of seafood and fish dishes. Three cooking methods: 1. With brown butter. 2. Fish oil. 3. Sauce for hot fish. The taste is obtained due to the special processing of the ingredients. Butter can be melted at room temperature, heated in a saucepan or in a frying pan on a piece of fish, but for the preparation of meniere sauce in haute cuisine, brown melted butter is used. I’ll cook flounder fillet with sauce.
Otyazuke is a Japanese dish. In Kyoto, there was such a tradition that if a guest was offered this dish, it was a hint that he had stayed too long and it was time to go home))) And a polite guest should not have eaten it, but got up and left))) although the dish is very tasty. Probably the owners ate it with relief after the guests left)))
A light summer salad wrapped in pita bread can turn into a great snack at work or on the road, when there is no time for a full lunch. This is a recipe for a snack that is convenient to take with you and not difficult to prepare.
Everyone’s favorite combination of potatoes and mushrooms in a slightly different version. Tender chicken marinated in lemon juice with herbs, accompanied by fragrant potatoes and mushrooms. Neither reduce nor add is a win-win option to please your loved ones.