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    Things To Do With... Zested Lemons, Limes & Oranges

    11/01/2015 by thebakingexplorer 4 Comments

    Leftover lemon

    I often find myself with leftover lemon, lime and orange after zesting them for a recipe and I never know what to do with them. It always seems like recipes call for zest only, or more zest than juice, so I imagine this is a common problem for bakers! In order to resolve this problem and avoid food waste guilt I've had a scout around and collected together some recipes that use only the juice of citrus fruits. It took me a while to find recipes that don't need zest at all, but I've found a good selection.

    Lemons

    Lemon Vinaigrette Lemon Sugar Cookies Lemon Bars
    Uses 2 tbsp Lemon Juice Uses the Juice of 1 Lemon Uses 85ml Lemon juice
    Lemon Curd Lemon Cream Pie Lemon Meringue Pie
    Uses 125ml Lemon Juice Uses 210ml Lemon Juice Uses 250ml Lemon Juice

    Limes

    Key Lime Cheesecake Pina Colada Fruit Jellies Banana Mango Muffins with Lime Glaze
    Uses 175ml Lime Juice (about 3 Limes) Uses 3 tsp Lime Juice Uses ½ a Lime Juice plus 1 tsp
    Chocolate Covered Lime Cheesecake Bites Coconut Lime Cheesecake Bars
    Uses 60ml Lime Juice Uses 4 tbsp Lime Juice

    Oranges

    Blueberry Orange Juice Bread Apple Crepes with Orange Sauce Peach Romanoff
    Uses 175ml Orange Juice Uses 175ml Orange Juice (plus 2 ½ tsp Lemon Juice!) Uses 6 tbsp Orange Juice
    Sicilian Orange Almond Cake Baked Cinnamon Bananas with Orange Juice
    Uses 75ml Orange Juice Uses 40ml Orange Juice

    Let me know in the comments if you make any of these recipes and how they turn out!

    How much juice is in a citrus fruit?

    There is approx 30ml juice in a Lemon
    There is approx 30ml juice in a Lime
    There is approx 80ml juice in an Orange

    Other ideas for leftover citrus fruits...

    - Mix leftover lemon juice with avocado for avocado on toast
    - Squeeze lime over a thai curry, stir fry or asian style soup
    - Add your citrus juice to a smoothie
    - Make a salad dressing using lemon, lime or orange juice
    - Pop a wedge or slice into your drink, or get cocktail making!
    - Mix any citrus juice with enough icing sugar to make a runny icing, then drizzle over a cake
    - Add to homemade ice lollies (popsicles)
    - You can freeze the juice in ice cube trays for easy portion control, and add to drinks and cocktails in the future
    - Clean with it! Lemon in particular is a fantastic natural cleaner

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    More leftover ideas...

    Jam Wholemeal Flour Egg yolks
    « Lime & Ginger Angel Food Cake
    Hidden Heart Chocolate Loaf Cake »

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    Comments

    1. Kate Glutenfreealchemist

      January 13, 2015 at 9:07 pm

      Ha! Yep.... those zestless citrus fruit are a problem in our house too. I have two bald lemons sitting in the fridge right now!!

      Reply
      • Kat BakingExplorer

        February 17, 2015 at 11:47 pm

        It's a constant issue for me! Putting them in a cocktail (or mocktail) always works well if there's no time to bake!

        Reply
    2. Kennie S.

      May 16, 2020 at 10:48 pm

      Thank you for sharing this! We homemade a lemon cake for my Dad's birthday and had 2.5 zested and 2 un-zested lemons leftover. Most recipes call for only or mostly zest, so I was happy to find your list here. I have the blueberry orange (in this case, lemon) bread in the oven now, which used up those zested lemons, and I may use the remaining two lemons to make the lemon sugar cookies.

      Reply
      • thebakingexplorer

        May 16, 2020 at 11:23 pm

        That's awesome Kennie, I'm so glad this helped you!

        Reply

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