This recipe was born when I wanted to find a way to use my lemon and lime peels from my chicken picatta recipe and other recipes so they wouldn’t go to waste.
I used them in cleaning products some of the time, but I also figured out a way to dry/dehydrate them for food use. I had been using lemon zest or lime zest and salt and pepper on quite a few recipes when I realized I should just pre-mix them and have them ready to go.
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I didn’t think I liked lemon pepper, until pregnancy cravings made me obsessed with it and the obsession never went away. Perfect on everything, in my opinion, but I like to use this lemon pepper on recipes like these:
- Chicken Picatta
- Cashew Chicken Lettuce Wraps
- Italian Lemon Herb Chicken
- In breakfast stir frys and eggs
- In Crock-Pot chicken recipes
Here’s what I did:
Homemade Lemon Pepper Seasoning Recipe
Ingredients
- zest from 4-6 organic lemons OR ½ cup dried lemon zest
- 6 TBSP ground black pepper OR whole peppercorns if you are using fresh lemon
- 5 TBSP Himalayan salt or sea salt
Instructions
- If using fresh lemon zest, thoroughly zest the lemons and spread the fresh lemon out on a baking sheet.
- Put into the oven on the lowest setting and leave until completely dried. Mine took about 70 minutes.
- When completely dried, mix with the peppercorns and salt in a food processor until well mixed. If making with pre-dried lemon peel, just mix all ingredients in a food processor until blended.
- Store in a tightly sealed jar in the cupboard.
Nutrition
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