A slightly harder, less ripe lemon will be easier to zest than a softer fruit that gives easily when you grip it, so instead of palming all the lemons at your grocery store until you find a juicy one, ...

Take the strips and a good, sharp chef’s knife and cut or mince the strips into tiny pieces. This lemon zest will be a ...

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When you want to add a tangy burst to your dishes, there is nothing like a burst of fresh lemon zest. Incorporating this ...

If you’re out of lemons, try using an equal amount of either orange or lime zest for your recipe. (Find more recipes using citrus fruit.) Orange and lemons will give you the same texture and look of ...

Use a peeler, knife, or grater to zest a lemon in a pinch. Lots of recipes call for the zest of a lemon. In fact, lemon zest may even be a more common ingredient than lemon juice, although one of our ...

Ever flipped through a recipe that calls for lemon zest (or any citrus fruit zest, for that matter), only to realize you're missing that one specific tool? Whoever convinced us we needed a citrus ...

Capturing the fresh flavor of spring and the happy color of a cartoon sun, lemon zest is an incredibly versatile ingredient. While lemon juice is pungently sour when used in raw preparations, its ...

Lemon zest, the yellow part of the peel – not the white bitter part – holds the essential oils of the lemon and is thus filled with pure lemon flavor. Lemon juice, on the other hand, has the acidic, ...