Lemon Pepper Seasoning I Made It

Lemon Pepper Seasoning

pointsevenout 8 years ago

Recipe by Otterpond: Lemon Pepper Seasoning
Always a pleasure to my pocketbook to make my own seasoning blends.
BTW: it took a dozen lemons to make 1/4c dried ground peels.

I had a small container of store bought lemon pepper seasoning. Order of importance of ingredients were, pepper, salt, citric acid plus a whole host of other eight syllable words. Nowhere was listed lemon.

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frankieanne 8 years ago said:

Wow, a dozen lemons made 1/4 cup of dried ground peels. That seems like a lot! How did you grind the peels?

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pointsevenout 8 years ago said:

I was thinking I could've made more. I have a zester that has 5 little holes in the end of it. Hold it like a potato peeler and scrape those holes against the rind geting long skinny rind strips. Then I process them with my chef's knife like I would when mincing garlic.
There must be a better way to do it. I think I waste about 50% of the rind because of the strips of peel that is left between the little holes. I'm thinking I could use a potato peeler if I don't take too much pith. Slice then mince them. I'm not about to buy a rind zester. I'[m sure they want an arm and two legs for the price of that specialty tool. Some kind of hardware store rasp might do. I'll have to take a good look at a rind zester then wander up and down the hardware aisle.

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Cosmicmother 8 years ago said:

I used my microplane/rasp when I made the dried zest. I also have a lemon zester like you described too, with the little holes, that would be a lot of work! When I make marmalade I use that one though. I saw recipes on line where you dry large peels of lemon with a potato peeler, then pulverise in a food processor when dried. I don't have one anymore (it broke) so I used my mortar and pestle to grind it up. I can't remember how much my microplane cost but I bet a wood rasp is a lot cheaper!

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otterpond 8 years ago said:

I saw some oyher folks talking about scraping the rind off with great success. Ill try that on a later batch. I have lemon peels dried now ready to go but I used a potatoe peeler on them. Im so pleased that you enjoyed making the spice mix.

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