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My lemon tree gave me the last fruits from the summer production: lemons will ripe in winter too, but they will be different in flavour and taste.
Before taking the juice, I also cut some zest from them, and use it in this simple spice recipe.
Hot Peppers are facultative... but having some Hot Lemon, I think they were the perfect choice.

Lemon Pepper
Ingredients:
30g lemon zest
2 yellow hot peppers (Hot Lemon or Cedrino)
1 tsp black grinded pepper

Method:
Mince the lemon zest with the peppers, using the mezzaluna or the food processor.

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Put the minced zest on a plane surface, and sprinkle with black pepper.
The citrus oil will infuse into the grinded pepper.

Now you can dry the spice naturally under the sun, or bake it low heat... and if you can't wait, you can also use some before drying.

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Marinated Fish with Lemon Pepper
Skin and debone some fish fillets and put them in a bowl. Cover with white vinegar and let marinate for no more than three hours.
Remove from vinegar and drain in colander all night.
Put on a serving plate and season with olive oil and fresh Lemon Pepper.
Serve as an appetizer, on toasted bread.

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Store Lemon Pepper
After a couple of days, marinated fish will be only a memory... but meanwhile our Lemon Pepper will be ready to be stored.
Mince it again, then add 1 teaspoon of salt and store in a jar.
This spice mixture can be used on fish and chicken.

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Lemon Pepper
Origin: USA
Suggested ingredients: lemon zest, black pepper, garlic, chili peppers, onion, salt.

Prepare your own Spices and Aromatic Herbs Mixtures.

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This goes to Valentina from Trembom - English Version who's hosting this week's edition of Weekend Herb Blogging.
This event was started by Kalyn from Kalyn's Kitchen.

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