Andrew Schloss, David Joachim

Making Your Own Preserved Lemons

Preparation info
  • Makes

    1 quart

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Mastering the Grill: The Owner's Manual for Outdoor Cooking
Mastering the Grill

By Andrew Schloss and David Joachim

Published 2007

  • About

If you can’t find preserved lemons in a local market, you can make them yourself.

Ingredients

  • 10 lemons, scrubbed clean
  • Kosher salt
  • Fresh lemon juice, as needed

Method

  1. Cut the tips off the ends of the lemons. Slice into quarters lengthwise, leaving the slices attached at one end. Pack the lemons with as much salt as they will hold.
  2. Put the lemons in a sterilized wide-mouth quart jar, packing them in as tightly as possible. As you push the lemons into the jar, some juice will be squeezed from them. When the jar is full, the ju