Perfectly Boiled Eggs

If you don’t like boiling eggs because they tend to crack and aren’t easy to peel off, don’t disappear. Before boiling your eggs, brush their eggshells with some lemon juice to make the process easier.

Leafy Greens

Looking for a way to refresh your leafy greens? A few drops of lemon will get you there! Just soak your leafy greens in cold water with some lemon juice and refrigerate them for an hour.

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Slow Down Browning

Many fruits tend to brown pretty quickly, including avocados, apples, and bananas, but you can use some lemon juice to slow down the oxidation process and keep them fresh for longer.

Sticky Rice

Have you ever dealt with sticky and clumpy rice and wondered how you could solve this problem. Add a few squeezes of lemon to your rice before cooking it, and you’re good to go.

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Before you juice a lemon, take a zester and use it to get the lemon zest that you can save in a zip-lock bag in the freezer. Recipes always call for it and you’ll feel like a master chef when you simply whip it out from the freezer instead of having to zest a whole new lemon that you may not even plan to juice. It’s much faster, too: it will take you less than a minute to get the bag out of the freezer and take out as much as you need before putting the bag back. By the time you’re done, you wouldn’t have even taken out your zester from the drawer!

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Perfectly Boiled Eggs

If you don’t like boiling eggs because they tend to crack and aren’t easy to peel off, don’t disappear. Before boiling your eggs, brush their eggshells with some lemon juice to make the process easier.

Leafy Greens

Looking for a way to refresh your leafy greens? A few drops of lemon will get you there! Just soak your leafy greens in cold water with some lemon juice and refrigerate them for an hour.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Nilay (@goodfoodfreak)

Slow Down Browning

Many fruits tend to brown pretty quickly, including avocados, apples, and bananas, but you can use some lemon juice to slow down the oxidation process and keep them fresh for longer.

Sticky Rice

Have you ever dealt with sticky and clumpy rice and wondered how you could solve this problem. Add a few squeezes of lemon to your rice before cooking it, and you’re good to go.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Smitha Vinod (@smitha_vinod)

The post Creative and Unusual Ways to Use Lemon in Your Kitchen appeared first on thedancingcucumber.com.

Before you juice a lemon, take a zester and use it to get the lemon zest that you can save in a zip-lock bag in the freezer. Recipes always call for it and you’ll feel like a master chef when you simply whip it out from the freezer instead of having to zest a whole new lemon that you may not even plan to juice. It’s much faster, too: it will take you less than a minute to get the bag out of the freezer and take out as much as you need before putting the bag back. By the time you’re done, you wouldn’t have even taken out your zester from the drawer!

The post Always Do This to Your Lemons Before Juicing Them appeared first on thedancingcucumber.com.