
What is lime zest? About the ingredient lime zest. Including 166 recipes with lime zest, nutrition data, and where to find it.
Zest is often used to add flavor to different pastries and sweets, such as pies, e.g. lemon meringue pie, cakes, cookies, biscuits, puddings,confectionary, candy and chocolate. Even different dishes, marmalade, sauces, sorbets and salads can use zest.
Savoury dishes in which zest is an important ingredient include many rice dishes; also some notable meat dishes such as ossobuco alla milanese.
Zest is a key ingredient used to make a variety of sweet and sour condiments, including lemon pickle, lime chutney, and marmalade. Also in numerous lemon liqueurs and in liquorssuch as Licor de oro.
Zest is used in some ** cocktails *** not only for flavor and aroma but also for color as a garnish.* For use as a cocktail garnish, zest is often cut in a long spiral called a twist. Cocktails featuring a twist include Dry Martini and Horse's Neck. For maximum flavor and aroma, as in mulled wine, zest is simply cut from the fruit with a knife.
Lime zest is usually found in the produce section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.
Lime zest is a member of the Fruits and Fruit Juices USDA nutritional food group.
measure | grams |
1 tbsp | 6 |
1 tsp | 2 |
In Chinese: | 石灰热情 | |
British (UK) term: | Lime zest | |
en français: | zeste de lime | |
en español: | ralladura de limón |
There are 158 recipes that contain this ingredient.
See more about lime zest | almost 13 years ago |
Usda nutrition data | over 8 years ago |
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