How To Keep Lemon Zest Yellow
Turn the lemon as you go so you remove only the yellow part.
How to keep lemon zest yellow. If possible choose organic oranges or lemons. See making and freezing lemon juice below. Carefully use a citrus grater to lightly grate off only the top layer of the skin. How to grate your own orange or lemon zest.
Wrap a cut lemon tightly with plastic wrap foil or wax paper and refrigerate the lemon within two hours of cutting it. Use the remaining lemon fruit for juice. 19 x research source. In this case use a fine grater to remove the peel.
Place the zest in a single layer on a piece of parchment or waxed paper and quick freeze it. The volume of your mason jar minus the volume of your. In this state the lemons may retain most of their juice and flavor for as long as four weeks. In the pantry in the fridge and in the freezer.
You want only the flavorful orange or yellow part of the peel. Vegetable peeler or knife if you do not have a zester or grater use a vegetable peeler or a small sharp knife. Thoroughly wash and dry the fruit. Wrap the lemons to keep your lemons the freshest they can be and to reduce the loss of vitamin c try to avoid oxygen when storing the fruit.
Once frozen transfer the zest to a zip top plastic bag. Mix equal amounts kosher salt and sugar in a bowl. Save the pith for pectin by freezing in a plastic bag. You will know when you have reached the pith when the lemon becomes harder to grate and the resulting zest is a lighter color yellow if the zest is stuck under the microplane tap it against the plate or cutting board to release the finely grated zest.
What is the best way to store lemon zest for future use. The ideal temperature for storing ripe yellow lemons is between 4º and 10ºc 39 50ºf. Label it with the date and type of citrus zest and store it until needed. Store extra lemons sealed in the refrigerator.
We stored zest for a week in zipper lock bags three ways. Place the lemons in zip locked bags squeezing out as much air as you can. Dry preserving lemon peel. Transfer the grated peel.