These quick pickled lemons are fragrant, spicy, sweet, tart and make a great alternative to preserved lemons.
I am addicted to social media.
There. I said it.
I would like to blame my lovely phone with it’s great big screen, easy to swipe open and very tempting tabs. Because they clearly jump out at me and say open me, check me, it has has been 5 whole mins since you last checked me, do something. Seriously, I am sure they are linked to my subconscious and somehow control me. Realistically though I think I am just a little bit addicted. Help…….
Drastic measure alert – I think I am going to start with a 90 mins social media ban once a day. Baby steps folks, baby steps. Freddy is giving me the yeah right look and am going to have to go all out to do this one. Social media, I will win.
In the mean time life gave me a whole lot of lemons so I made these quick pickled lemons which, are a more like quick preserved lemons Ottolenghi style. Fragrant, spicy, sweet, tart etc, I find them very addictive. One more lemon recipe up my sleeve can only be a good thing right?
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Quick Pickled Lemons
Ingredients
- 1/2 mild red chilli deseeded and chopped
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 medium unwaxed lemon , halved lengthwise and thinly sliced
- 35 g (1.3 oz) caster sugar
- 1/2 tsp sea salt flakes
- 1 garlic clove crushed
- 1 tsp sweet paprika
- 1/4 tsp ground cumin
- 1/4 tsp ground turmeric
Instructions
- Crush together the chilli and 1 tbsp of lemon juice in a pestle and mortar into a paste.
- Transfer the paste and all the other ingredients into a large bowl and mix together well with your hands so that the flavours get massaged into the lemons.
- Cover the bowl and leave the lemons overnight in the fridge.
- Then transfer everything into a sterilized glass jar.
- It will store in the fridge for 2 weeks.
Love these, so much easier than the month of turning the jars that you have to do with preserved lemons. GG
LOVE that these are spicy – so interesting and different from sickly sweet preserved lemons! And I’m totally with you on the social media thing, think I need to join you in your daily 90 minute ban!
These sound divine Bintu, and an amazing array of flavours in there. Stunningly beautiful too. Good luck on the 90 mins!
Pickled lemons sound lovely. I bet you can use them in so may different things.
I love pickled lemons but i am equally bad at making these!
Haha, it’s official is it, you’re a social media junky 😉 Pickled lemons sound fab. I had a huge stash of lemons earlier in the year and had all sorts of plans for them, including preserved lemons, but they somehow just seemed to get used here and there until there wasn’t a single one left.
Oooh thank you for this, B! I’ve always wanted to make some pickled lemons, I just wasn’t sure where to begin. The quick and easy version, it looks lovely.
Last time I had a glut of lemons, I made candied peel and it was amazing. This is completely different but looks just as good. X
Pickled lemons with chillies sounds amazing
What a fabulous idea and they would certainly oerk up a lot of dishes. They’d be great in a salad with grilled halloumi.