Brighten up a winter’s day with sweet, tart and tangy citrus fruit.
1. Grow your own.
2. Read up on lemons.
3. Liven up a beet salad.
4. Make (lightened-up) margaritas.
5. Turn leftover holiday cranberries (cranberries: A small, red, acid berry used in cooking ... The evergreen dwarf shrub of the heath family that yields this fruit) into orange and lemon-spiked chutney.
6. Guess how much vitamin C is in one grapefruit?
7. Prepare fish en papillote with sliced citrus for a light and flavorful meal.
8. Stuff a chicken with lemon and oranges and roast.
9. Do you have a reamer for your citrus?
10. Use citrus juice and zest to marinate chicken thighs.
11. Dip clementines (clementines: A tangerine of a deep orange-red North African variety that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa ... (clementine) a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa) in dark chocolate and sprinkle with sea salt.
12. Find out why citrus made our list of healthy flavor boosters.
13. Looking for a light, lemon-flavored dessert?
14. Drizzle oranges with maple syrup for a breakfast salad.
15. Dive into a sour and juicy blood orange.
16. Add tangelos to a spinach salad.
17. Green foods like limes have special health-protecting antioxidants.
18. Try a classic combo – salmon and citrus.
19. Make limoncello or infused vodka with citrus rind.
20. Add a burst of orange to mashed sweet potatoes.
21. Choose water-packed mandarin oranges to cut out extra sugar. Toss them in a salad.
22. Make a fruity soup for dessert.
23. Combine basil and lime for a refreshing (refreshing: Serving to refresh or reinvigorate someone ... Welcome or stimulating because new or different) sorbet.
24. Basil also compliments (compliments: A polite expression of praise or admiration ... An act or circumstance that implies praise or respect) the tangy flavor of grapefruit.
25. Ina’s Lemon Cake stays moist with lemon syrup.
26. Sweet grapefruit (grapefruit: A large, round, yellow citrus fruit with an acid, juicy pulp ... The tree bearing this fruit) and fresh fennel make a killer salad.
27. Whip up a batch of these lemony cookies for company.
28. Get Robin’s clever grapefruit creations.
29. Got a sniffle? Does citrus help boost immunity? Find out.
30. Add lime segments to mango salsa.
31. Use freshly squeezed lemon juice for homemade Caesar salad dressing.
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