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12 Great Uses for Lemon in Your Kitchen |
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by Sweety, Aug 11, 2007 |
This guide will show you multiple ways to use lemon in your kitchen. |
Prevents Clumping of Fried Rice: Try adding a spoon of lemon juice to boiling fried rice when it is getting cooked to prevent clumping of rice. It even prevents sticking of rice to bottom of old electric rice cooker . Prevents Browning: Lemon juice can be added over the cut fruits to prevent the oxidation which causes browning. Enhances The Color of Vegetables: Try sprinkling lemon juice to broccoli, French beans and green peas while steaming. It will enhance the color.
Salad Dressing: Add a few drops of lemon juice to your favorite salad, be it a vegetable or a fruit salad. Pickles: Lemon itself can be used to make pickles. But lemon juice can be added to hot water in equal proportions. Tender green pepper balls can be added to this mixture with adequate salt to make pickles. This pickle works best for cough and cold. Flavor Enhancer: Lemon juice can be added to your favorite dishes like the fish curry or vegetable curry towards the end of cooking. So the next time you feel that your cooked dish is less tasty, splash a spoon of lemon juice.Lemonade Drink: Making a lemonade is an easy way to preserve the lemons and to make a drink. Lemon juice can be added to water and sugar to make an instant thirst quencher. Serve it with ice or soda.
Drastically Reduces The Salt Usage: Worried on how to prepare a dish with less salt? Try adding lemon juice and see the magic.Natural Deodorizer: Do not throw away used lemons. It can be used to clean and deodorize the kitchen counter, sinks and cutting boards. Also add small slices of lemon to warm water and dip hands. It will deodorize and make your hands soft.Cleaning: Just by rubbing the lemon skin and salt, you can clean copper vessels. Even you can clean your microwave. Keep a bowl of water with lemon slices and keep on high for 30 sec. The steam will condense and microwave can be cleaned easily with a dish cloth. To remove the odors from refrigerator, keep a slice of lemon in the refrigerator for a day.Baking: Lemon can be used to enhance the flavor of baked dishes. The juice of lemon can be used in baking lemon flavored cakes. To Make Kitchen Wooden Surfaces Shine: Just add a few drops of lemon juice to twice the amount of olive oil or any cooking oil and make your own wood polish. It will add a shine to wooden furniture.
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