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Learn how to zest a lemon with or without a zester so you can give your favorite recipes a citrusy punch. The post How to Zest a Lemon 5 Easy Ways appeared first on Taste of Home.
Looking for a lemon zest substitute? Try using other citrus zest, lemon extract, lemon juice or dried lemon peel. The post 4 Easy Lemon Zest Substitutes appeared first on Taste of Home.
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A zester (also citrus zester or lemon zester) is a kitchen utensil for obtaining zest from lemons and other citrus fruit. A kitchen zester is approximately four inches (100 mm) long, with a handle and a curved metal end, the top of which is perforated with a row of round holes with sharpened rims.
Zest [1] is a food ingredient that is prepared by scraping or cutting from the rind of unwaxed citrus fruits such as lemon, orange, citron, and lime. Zest is used to add flavor to many different types of food. In terms of fruit anatomy, the zest is obtained from the flavedo which is also called zest. [2]
A fruit with a thick peel, such as a citrus fruit, is called a hesperidium. In hesperidia, the inner layer (also called albedo or, among non-botanists, pith) [1] is peeled off together with the outer layer (called flavedo), and together they are called the peel. [2] The flavedo and albedo, respectively, are the exocarp and the mesocarp.
The post How to Juice Lemons Without Cutting Them appeared first on Taste of Home. Apparently, you can simply poke a hole in the top of a lemon and squeeze the lemon juice right out. But does this ...
Several types of graters feature different sizes of grating slots, and can therefore aid in the preparation of a variety of foods. They are commonly used to grate vegetables, cheese and lemon or orange peel (to create zest), spices, such as ginger and nutmeg, and can also be used to grate other soft foods