25 Amazing Lemon Recipes | Julie Blanner (2024)

• Tools for Cooking With Lemons
• Tips for Making Lemon Recipes
• How to Select Lemons
• Answers to All of Your Lemon Questions
• Easy Lemon Recipes to Make for Every Course and Occasion

• Zester – A small, handled kitchen tool with a row of small holes at one end. Use by pressing the holes on the lemon skin and pulling toward you. This will scrape the skin and produce little strips of lemon peel.
• Microplane Zester – Similar to a cheese grater, but with smaller openings. Gently rub the zester across the skin to produce small lemon skin shavings.
• Citrus Juicer – A small bowl that has an elevated piece in the middle, called a reamer. Cut lemon in half and place cut side down on the reamer. Move lemon around reamer to release juice. Or, in a lemon squeezer, place half of the lemon, cut side down, into the concave side of the squeezer. Press down and squeeze juice into container.

• Zest the lemon while the lemon is whole, before you cut it in half to juice it.
• Heat the lemon in the microwave for a few seconds to get the juice flowing more easily.
• Roll the lemon on the counter to break up some of the membrane and more juice come out.

In Season – Lemon trees are in their prime fruit production season during the winter. Florida and California produce the most in the US, where lemon trees thrive in the warm weather.

What to Look For – When choosing lemons, look for a bright yellow color, and no dark spots. Also, the lemon should be heavy for its size, be just barely soft, but still have a firm touch.

How to Store Lemons – Store them on the counter for a week or in the refrigerator for 2 weeks, or until they get hard or spotted.

What can I make with lots of lemons?

You can certainly make lemonade, but you can also try baking that lemon flavor into cookies, cakes, sweet breads, and other desserts. Or, take it a more savory direction and add lemon to your pasta dishes, main dishes and salads!

Can you freeze fresh lemons?

Yes! Wash and dry your lemons. Next, place in a freezer bag or container and keep in freezer for up to 4 months. when ready to use, zest the peel and juice the pulp as usual.

Frosé

Enjoy your favorite blush wine turned into a refreshingly easy to sip two ingredient Frosé Recipe.

It’s a pink wine Frozen Rosé slushy, perfect for any brunches, showers or parties.

Sparkling Lemonade

Next, the simplest co*cktail of all! This easy champagne co*cktail is a perfect way to start the festivities and it’s also fancy enough to serve at ladies’ brunches and Mother’s Day.

Honey Lemonade

A 60-second honey lemonade recipe that’s naturally refined sugar-free and made with just 2 ingredients! A perfect easy lemonade recipe for hot summer days.

Strawberry Lemon Mimosa

This strawberry and lemon mimosa is a wonderfully light and refreshing champagne co*cktail that you can make in a matter of minutes.

Made with fresh strawberries, this wonderful spring co*cktail is perfect for a Mother’s Day and Easter brunch.

Arugula Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette

Next up, this is an easy and refreshing recipe for an arugula salad with lemon vinaigrette. This simple salad is so perfect for the warmer weather, and is perfect to serve as a simple side or appetizer.

Basil Lemon Pasta Salad

This pasta salad with lemon and basil is a light and refreshing alternative to classic pasta salads.

It’s full of fresh flavor and is made in minutes with a few simple ingredients.

Lemon Pepper Shrimp

Use this recipe for lemon pepper shrimp on pasta, alongside a fresh green salad, or with a side of roasted veggies.

It’s a fresh, healthy take on a classic favorite that works on the grill or stovetop!

Lemon Pepper Salmon

This Lemon Pepper Salmon recipe is absolutely foolproof. In fact, it’s the most delicious and easiest way to add all the goodness that salmon offers into your dinner rotation.

Lemon Pepper Chicken

Lemon Pepper Chicken is juicy and loaded with flavor. It’s high in protein and low in fat and calories, and ready to serve in less than 30 minutes.

Make it in the oven, stovetop or on the grill!

Easy Piccata Milanese with Piccata Sauce

Piccata Milanese is such a simple, flavorful chicken dish. The easy and amazing Piccata Sauce is made with olive oil, butter, lemon juice, wine and capers.

Lemon Garlic Shrimp Kabobs

They’re so easy to throw together for the grill, and your hands-on prep and grilling time is under 15 minutes with the easiest shrimp kabob marinade.

Lemon Chicken

This Lemon Chicken Recipe is naturally low carb, gluten free, keto friendly and also fits a low fat low calorie diet!

But diet or not you’re going to love this amazing lemon sauce for chicken and make it again and again!

Lemon Caper Sauce

Next on this list, don’t skip this is a white wine lemon caper sauce that’s ready in 10 minutes and works with a variety of protein and pasta dishes.

Crisp, citrusy, creamy and fragrant, you’ll want to serve it all summer long!

Lemon Pepper Sauce

This sauce creates a fast and easy lemon pepper pasta that is truly unforgettable- filled with perfectly balanced soft essence of lemon flavor.

Lemon Basil Pasta

This easy Lemon Basil Pasta recipe is quick enough for a weeknight dinner, but tastes special for date night!

Lemon Spaghetti with Artichokes

This easy vegetarian weeknight meal comes together in 20 minutes using a handful of simple ingredients.

The creamy lemon pasta sauce is light and fresh and the fried artichokes are to die for!

Lemon Loaf

This easy Lemon BreadRecipe takes just 5 minutes hands on time and makes a beautiful breakfast or gift!

Honey Lemon Cake

A delightfully sweet Honey Lemon Cake with a tender crumb topped in a delicious glaze. Make into adorable beehive cakes or in a muffin tin!

Lemon Poppy Seed Bread

Lemon Poppy Seed Bread is a delightfully moist bread with a touch of tart lemon flavor, bursting with delicate, nutty poppy seeds!

It takes just five minutes hands on time and a few simple ingredients to make 6 miniature loaves for gifting or two large loaves.

Lemon Pound Cake

Apound cakeis a simple cake recipe originally made with 4 staple ingredients – a pound of butter, pound of sugar, pound of eggs and a pound of flour.

Lemon Glaze

You can whip up this amazing Lemon Glaze recipe with three ingredients in just five minutes.

Lemon Glaze Icing is perfect for breads, pound cakes, angel food cakes and so much more!

No Bake Lemon Pie

This is a light and flavorful easy no bake lemon pie. However effortless it might be, it’s a gorgeous dessert that is loaded with beautiful berries.

Lemon Ice Cream

Lemon Ice Cream is a rich, creamy taste of spring. Make this refreshing no-churn Lemon Ice Cream Recipe for a memorable sweet and tart treat you’ll love!

Lemon Berry Tart

Refreshing Lemon Berry Tart – this delightful dessert is on a sugar cookie crust! It’s the best fruit tart to add a touch of sweetness to any day or night.

Meyer Lemon Meringue Pie

These make ahead desserts come together quickly and are wonderfully sweet with just the right amount of tang. This will be your new favorite treat!

Frosted Lemon Cookies

These frosted lemon cookies are bursting with fresh citrus flavor! Easy and quick to make, they are the perfect Springtime treat that the whole family will love.

Frozen Lemon Dessert

This is the simplest frozen lemon dessert – it’s so easy and refreshing! Serve refrigerated or frozen to make it one of the summer dessert recipes you’ll want on any hot summer night.

With a simple graham cracker crust, this frozen lemon pie recipe can be served individually as shown or in a traditional pie pan.

Lemon Shortbread Cookies

Finally, we have these easy, light and refreshing Lemon Shortbread Cookies offer a little crunch, a hint of lemon and that buttery flavor we all love!

They’re made with just five ingredients and are so simple to make!