List of lemon dishes and drinks facts for kids

A yummy Lemon meringue pie

Lemons are bright yellow fruits that grow on small evergreen trees. These trees first came from Asia. Lemons are famous for their sour taste and fresh smell. People around the world use lemons in many ways, especially in cooking and making drinks. We mostly use their juice, but the soft inside part (pulp) and the outer skin (called zest) are also great for adding flavor to food.

Tasty Lemon Dishes

Homemade lemon curd

• Fruit curd – This is a sweet, creamy spread, a bit like a thick jam. It's often made with lemon, but can also use lime, orange, or raspberry. It's great on toast or as a dessert topping.
• Lemon bar – A sweet treat with a shortbread crust and a tangy lemon filling.
• Lemon chicken – Many different dishes around the world are called lemon chicken. They all include chicken cooked with lemon flavor.
• Lemon chiffon cake – This is a very light and airy cake. It often gets its bright flavor from lemon juice and lemon zest.
• Lemon ice box pie – A cool, no-bake dessert. It's made with lemon juice, eggs, and sweet condensed milk in a pie crust. The crust is often made from graham crackers and butter.
• Lemon meringue pie – A popular baked pie, usually served for dessert. It has a crispy crust, a creamy lemon filling, and a fluffy, sweet meringue topping.
• Lemon pickle – In India (Bharat), this pickle is made mainly from lemons mixed with different spices.
• Lemon tart – A dessert that looks like a small pie. It has a pastry shell and a smooth, tangy lemon filling.
• Shaker Lemon Pie – A special kind of lemon pie first created by a group of people called the Shakers.
• Sussex Pond Pudding – A traditional English dessert. It's a whole lemon baked inside a pastry made with suet (a type of fat).

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  Lemon ice box pie with raspberry sorbet and raspberry sauce

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  Lemon chicken

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  Lemon chiffon cake

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  A Lemon tart

Lemon in Sauces and Soups

• Aioli – A creamy sauce from France. It's made with garlic, olive oil, lemon juice, and often egg yolks. It's great with seafood or vegetables.
• Avgolemono – A group of Mediterranean sauces and soups. They are made by mixing egg and lemon juice with broth, then heating it until it gets thick.
• Clam sauce – A topping for pasta, often linguine. It's usually made with tiny pieces of clams, olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, and parsley. Sometimes it's made with a thin tomato sauce instead.
• Kabkabou – A fish and tomato stew from Tunisia. Lemon is an important ingredient in making this traditional dish.
• Preserved lemon – A special condiment made by pickling whole or cut lemons in a salty liquid (brine) of water, lemon juice, and salt. Sometimes spices are added too.
• Sauce vierge – A French sauce. It's made with olive oil, lemon juice, chopped tomato, and chopped basil.

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  Avgolemono soup (front)

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  Preserved lemon

Refreshing Lemon Drinks

Lemon liqueur

• Arnold Palmer – A popular drink that mixes lemonade and iced tea. It's named after a famous golfer.
  • John Daly – This is a grown-up version of the Arnold Palmer, with vodka added to the lemonade and iced tea.
• Barley water – In Great Britain, this drink is made by boiling pearl barley, then pouring the hot water over lemon rind or pulp. Fruit juice and sugar are added for taste.
• Bitter lemon – A fizzy soft drink with a bitter taste. It gets its flavor from quinine and lemon, especially the bitter part of the lemon peel.
• Lemon & Paeroa – A sweet soft drink from New Zealand. It used to be made by mixing lemon juice with bubbly mineral water from the town of Paeroa. Now, a big company called Coca-Cola makes it.
• Lemonade – A classic lemon-flavored drink sweetened with sugar. There are many different kinds around the world, like pink lemonade and frozen lemonade.
• Lemon Drop – A mixed drink made with vodka, lemon juice, and other ingredients.
• Lemonette – When this drink was first made, it had a lot of real lemon juice in it.
• Lemon liqueur – A sweet drink made from lemons, alcohol, and sugar. It's usually bright yellow and tastes strongly of lemon, but it's not sour.
• Limoncello – A famous Italian lemon liqueur. It's mostly made in Southern Italy, especially around the Gulf of Naples. It uses the zest of special lemons like Sorrento lemons.
• Mint lemonade – A type of lemonade that includes mint. It's very popular in some parts of the Middle East.
• Shikanjvi – A type of lemonade that comes from the Indian subcontinent.
• Snowball – A mixed drink that combines a creamy liqueur called advocaat with lemonade.
• Sour – A group of mixed drinks that all contain lemon or lime juice.

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  Shikanjvi is a traditional lemonade originating from the Indian subcontinent.

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  The Giant Lemon & Paeroa bottle in Paeroa, showing the label design as used from the 1970s to the 1990s

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  A glass of lemonade

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  Lemon Drop cocktails

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  Bottles of limoncello

Other Lemon-Like Treats

• Kitron – A lemon liqueur made on the Greek island of Naxos. It's made from the fruit and leaves of the citron tree, which is similar to a lemon tree but has a slightly different, stronger taste.
• Limeade – This drink is like lemonade, but it's made with lime juice or lime flavor instead of lemon.

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  Kitron

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  A glass of limeade

See also

In Spanish: Anexo:Platos y bebidas de limón para niños

• Citrus
• Lemon verbena
• List of citrus fruits
• List of fruit dishes
• List of juices
• List of lemonade topics