I made a Sweet Preserved Lemon during the intersession week. Making a Sweet Preserved Lemon as well as various kinds of fruits is so popular in my country. For example, grapefruit, strawberry, citron, and quince. The advantages of Sweet Preserved Lemon are easy to make, you can make drinking such as tea, ade and so on whatever you want, and the biggest advantage is good for health!
Now, I'm going to talk about the recipe!!
Ingredients : Lemon - 4 ea
Sugar - approximately 400g
Jar - make sure use the disinfected bottle with hot water
Method
1. 1st washing stage : Rub it hard with coarse salt.
2nd washing stage : Soak in the baking soda water for half an hour.
and then pour hot water and quickly wash it with cold water.
* There are a lot of pesticide on the surface of lemon, make sure clean it properly!
2. Slice the lemons up.
3. Get rid of all the seeds.
(cause of bitterness!)
4. Put lemons into the jar.
5. Evenly sprinkle the sugar between the jar with layered lemons and then mix properly.
Lemon : Sugar = 1 : 1
6. Seal properly and eat after 3-5 days when sugar melted then just put in the fridge.
One week later, I tried this with hot water, it tasted.........so GOOD !!!
It was sweet and a little sour !! I didn't feel sourness too much. I really love it :)
I worried about the bitterness, but luckly there was no bitterness in there. The failure was the quantity of sugar. I supposed to put the sugar with the weight of lemon equally, I didn't do like that. Because I didn't have a scale in my home. I will make this again next time, and I would like to try to make different Sweet preserved fruits.
