6 Ways To Use Lemon Peels In Your Foods And Drinks

Lemon peels do not need to be wasted. You can use them for various things in the kitchen. Here are some ways to use lemon peels for your foods and drinks.

Rajoshi Purkait
Editorial
Updated - 2024-03-12, 13:42 IST

Lemon is one of the most versatile fruits to have at home. It can not only be used for cooking and garnishing but also for cleaning, skin and hair benefits, and deodorising, to name a few. The use of lemon is not only limited to the juice that it secretes as you can also use its peels for several things at home.

Here are some uses of lemon peels that you can try for your foods and drinks for a refreshing and delicious touch.

Lemon Sugar

One of the best ways to impress your friends when they come over for a drink is to serve them with the eminent lemon sugar. You can make this at home using regular sugar and lemon zest. You can also add this to your desserts.

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Lemon Zest

Lemon peels must not be thrown away after taking out the juice of lemons as they can be used as lemon zest. This can be used to add flavours to food; for instance, add lemon zest to your pasta dishes, or to make lemon-flavoured sugar, pepper, or salt.

Lemon-Infused Vodka

If you are a big fan of alcohol or you are organising a party soon, you can try preparing lemon-infused vodka. For this, you need to leave the lemon (Uses Of Lemon For Anti-Ageing) peels in vodka for two to three days. Once done, you can further make cocktails using the vodka.

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Dried Lemon Peels

If you want to keep the lemon peels for a longer time, you can dry them up completely to be able to store them for longer. You can later use them as lemon zest or for plating.

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Lemon Peel Pickle

Who doesn’t enjoy a savoury jar of pickles (Simple Pickle Recipes)? Take your lemon peels and utilise them in the best way possible by pickling them with appropriate amounts of oil and spices and relish them with everything you eat.

Candied Lemon Peel

If you want to relive your childhood days, use the leftover lemon peels to make candies out of them. You need to boil these peels in water, then in sugar water syrup and further garnish them with powdered sugar.

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