Usage of Recipes of lemon

Through my previous blog post you may aware of the medicinal and health benefits of Lemon. In this post we will discuss about the usage of this yellow fruit. Whether knowingly or un- knowingly this little fruit occupies an important place in everybody’s kitchen and being used in cooking. We have to salute our ancestors for including most of the nature products/herbs in daily cooking.

Lemon is commonly used in recipes of soup, (rasam), pickle, juice, salad etc., through which it will automatically help to improve stamina and to keep our digestive system in order.

A glass of lemon juice can keep you fresh and improve immunity system. 

Photo Author: André Karwath aka Aka

Drinking of lemon juice with honey in the morning is a fast weight loss remedy as it helps to burn fat and flushes out excess toxin from the body. (You can check out this and more usages of honey)  

Regular intake of lemon juice with warm water in the morning and night gives relief to Asthma. It also helps the digestive system. You can add a pinch of salt which will add taste and have more medicinal effect.

The plain tea or coffee with few lemon drops can be used which has got many medicinal effects. It is needless to say Lemon rice is one the traditional meals in India, of course with ginger and green chillies and salt.

Here are some tips to make some pickles with lemon

Take some 5 or 6 lemons, cut in to pieces, remove the seeds, and add some peeled ginger pieces, with required green chillies, and salt then preserve in a bottle. Keep it for one or two days and use whenever required. This is a delicious pickle without red chilli powder and without oil. All can use this pickle. Use it within a week or ten days. It is medicinal pickle even patients can consume.

Here is another effective harmless pickle recipe. Take some 12 or 15 (numbers depends upon your requirement) fresh lemons, after washing them well put them in a bottle add required salt and warm water. And preserve it for a month and use them whenever you want. This is very effective and harmless because it does not contain chillies and oil. It is very useful for aged people.

All of us very well know about the general traditional lemon pickle with chillies and giggle oil with salt. It is famous for its flavour and taste,

Caution: Those who are suffering from acidity problem must be careful in using this lemon juice or raw lemons because it contains Citric acid. Always drink mixing with water.

Drinking of two litres of water with lemon juice is an effective remedy for dissolving kidney stones.

Lemon is also used for treating Acne, Pimples, Eczema and other skin diseases by just applying on the affected parts.  Just squash and smell the juice can ease nausea and vomiting

I have mentioned about my views on this famous fruit Lemon. You can also share your views about this yellow fruit here. I request you all to share this post with your friends too as relevant.

Will meet you through next post with another nature spice.