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.
I suggest you try a dessert that can be prepared at any time of the year. After all, fresh apples are available to us all year round. Adding whipped cream to the apples, we get a very delicious airy dessert.
For this salad, you do not need to cook anything-fry, just take a few vegetables, add pickled ginger, olives and soft cheese, it turns out a delicious salad. Try it-it’s crunchy, spicy, juicy!
When the summer heat reaches its peak and you do not want to stand near the stove for a long time, but guests should come unexpectedly or a holiday is planned. Then this snack will be your lifesaver. Delicious, crunchy, light.
Panna cotta is a dessert loved by many. Soft, with a velvety texture, cool, creamy – it is just created for hot June days! And if you cook it with strawberries… The most real summer pleasure!
Slices of ripe avocado wrapped in the thinnest slices of prosciutto – so simple and so exquisite! You can serve the slices as an independent snack or combine them with fresh lettuce and cherry tomatoes.
Salad of young summer vegetables and herbs. The salad is green tops from radishes, crunchy cucumbers short-fruited pupyrchatye from the garden, juicy onions. Young boiled potatoes make the salad filling. Of course, the salad will be seasoned with a spicy dressing.
New baked potatoes in bacon with rosemary, Basil and thyme. For it, I will make a spicy sour cream sauce with grainy mustard and lemon juice with olive oil. Not difficult, but with such a great result, I just recommend it!