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Preserved Lemons

I have always loved the smell  and taste of lemons on a lot of dishes and it makes  anything  taste very special.  I even have a bunch of mason jars that I use over and over again.

It is when the caps and rings wear out that I get new ones.

I take  6 lemons and cut them in to pieces and I squeeze the juice in a bowl and added the rind too. The rind makes a part of the preserved lemon please do not throw away. Add 2 pinches of cinnamon powder to the lemons. Add to mortar and pestle 2 bay leaves crumbled, 1 pinch each of coriander seeds and black pepper corns, 3 cloves and grind in to a coarse powder  then add to the lemons and stir.

Add 3 handfuls of kosher salt, 1/4 cup each of vinegar and olive oil.  Mix with lemon mixture and put in clean mason jars and close them with their lids and rings that came with them,  shake to combine and let it sit in your kitchen  on your counter  and shake twice a day for 3 days then put in the fridge.

On the third  day it is ready for using and I make this similar to making achar which is pickle. However this is a seasoning ingredient and not not a pickle. It is widly used in North African counties  such as Morocco , Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt.

I added the vinegar for a reason so you can store it for a while longer.

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I love to cook I collect and try out new recipies I am in to yarn craft and I collect knitting and crochet patterns plus I am married I even play runescape and I am an avid reader I even am a music junkie I collect music because I can't live without it I speak German English Urdu Pashto Hindko plus I am still learning Arabic Turkish and Spanish The music I listen to are jazz, rock, R&B from the old school, European classical. regae, Hip Hop from old school, the blues House from old school, Songs in English, German, Urdu, Hindko, Pashto, Punjabi, Turkish and Arabic, Um kalthom and Mohamed Mounir, Fauda Arar, Baris Manco, Amr Diab, Tual, Yalin, Sesan Asku, Ahmet Keya, Ahmet Ozhan, Alamgir, Quamar Gulla, Nashenas, Naghma, Noor Jahan, Mohamad Rafi, Lata, Kishore Kumar, Talat Mahmood are my favorite singers. The list goes on etc. and of course I love latamore and luther vandros, the beatles, rolling stones and Yusef Islam is also one of the greatest voices and Allah blessed them all with such great talents.

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