Salted Lemons
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Simple recipe
Recipe yield: 1 l
Moroccan Food Recipes
Salted lemons – a Moroccan cuisine recipe, salted lemons can be bought in the supermarket, or you can cook it yourself, it's not difficult. Small lemons are often used for salting, but you can also solt medium-sized lemons. Salted lemons in Morocco are used as a side dish or for preparing various food recipes, especially meat ones.
Salted lemons ingredients
- Lemon 6 pcs
- Lemon juice 2,5 cups
- Cinnamon 1 pcs
- Coriander 1 tbsp
- Black pepper 1 tbsp
- Hot pepper 3-4 pcs
- Salt 6 tbsp
Salted lemons recipe
To cook a Moroccan cuisine recipe salted lemons, wash the lemons in hot water and dry. Cut lemons crosswise or into 6 pieces, but do not cut to the end.
Pour a pinch of salt into the middle of each lemon and place tightly in a jar.
Pour the lemons with the remaining salt, spices and pour over the juice. Depending on the size of the lemons, you may need more or less lemon juice. The lemon juice should cover the lemons completely.
Salting lemons lasts a month in a cool place. Stored salted lemons in the refrigerator.
