Leftover lemons and limes - recipe suggestions

[readyshreddiescook]

I had a Mexican themed night at the weekend but was rather overzealous with the lemons and limes and I now have a load of them in my fruit bowl - does anyone have any good suggestions as to what I can do with them, please? Thanks 🙂

Not a recipe but I quarter and freeze limes so I always have one if needed.

Margaritas 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'd make lemon &/or lime curd, it's so much nicer than shop bought versions & freezes well

Lemon and lime posset.

I cut them up and freeze individually for drinks

We have 5 lemon trees and 2 lime trees so I have this 'problem'!
-slice into rounds and bake in a very low oven until dried and caramelised slightly. Keep in airtight jar. Lovely for soda water or garnish in g&t
-lemon or lime drizzle cake

• peel long strands of zest, put on a baking sheet and leave in a sunny spot to dry. Drink garnish. Keep in jar and then..

-squeeze juice out of them all. Freeze in ice cube trays for easy access to fresh lemon juice for recipes or cocktails

• make limoncello
• make lemon curd
• freeze them whole

-make a shit tonne of margaritas and drink it all

Slice and freeze for another time
Pad Thai
Smoothie with fruit juice; ginger, banana and spinach

I have just made Delia Smith's lemon curd. It is fabulous.

If you're peckish squeeze a bit of fresh lime juice on some grated carrots, very tasty.

feelgoodfoodie.net/recipe/lemon-pasta/

pinchofnom.com/recipes/creamy-lemon-chicken/

Both of the recipes above are lovely, and easy to make.

Lemon drizzle cake.

Lemon and lime cheesecake with a ginger biscuits base

Chicken Laksa

Lemon & Key Lime Pie - I did this when I didn't have enough limes, was really nice & I used a mix of ginger nut biscuits & Biscoff biscuits for the base.

Lemon and or lime chiffon pie. Divine.

Ooh I like the sound of all of these, thank you!

Also - great tip about freezing them, I would have never considered doing that, thank you.

@readyshreddiescook

I had a Mexican themed night at the weekend but was rather overzealous with the lemons and limes and I now have a load of them in my fruit bowl - does anyone have any good suggestions as to what I can do with them, please? Thanks 🙂

Lime cheesecake.

@minipie

Not a recipe but I quarter and freeze limes so I always have one if needed.

I do this with lemons and limes too. They are great in water instead of ice cubes!

Citrus sorbet, easy and quick to make

Citrus marmalade

Lemonade

Lemon meringue pie

Tarte au citron

Lemon & lime curd or if there’s loads, marmalade.

Lemon shortcake! So easy and delicious.

Iceland actually sell 99p bags of frozen lemon and lime slices now. I buy those as I always end up with leftovers if I buy fresh.