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Lemon Essential Oil in the Kitchen - Great Recipe Ideas!
- By Rebecca Noel
- Published 06/5/2008
- Alternative Medicine
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Rebecca Noel
Rebecca Noel is the author of The Essential Oils and Aromatherapy Info Blog where you can find out everything you want to know about essential oils and their uses with topics ranging from treating insect bites to making an awesome pesto to which oils to use for colds and the flu to making your own scented aromatherapy cards to aromatherapy accessories and much more. Visit: Essential Oils and Aromatherapy Info Blog
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For homemade lemonade, in a blender mix the juice of 2 squeezed lemons, 2 drops of Lemon essential oil, 2 tablespoons of honey or blue agave and two cups of pure water. Adjust the amount of each ingredient to suit your own taste.
Add a couple of drops of Lemon essential oil to sparkling mineral water for a great lemon essence flavor you could add Lemon essential oil to ANY kind of juice.
You can mix Lemon essential oil into yogurt or ice cream, or lemon meringue pie...any desert that lemon would taste good in.
For a spinach fettuccini alfredo take fresh spinach, add garlic, some cream cheese, parmesan cheese and spices, cook it up and then right before serving add some olive oil to the pasta, put a drop of Lemon essential oil on a wooden spoon and stir it into the spinach alfredo sauce and then toss all the ingredients with the pasta -delicious!
Add a few drops to your salad dressing or infuse your olive oil with the Lemon essential oil and use it for dipping.
Create your own pesto with 1/2 cup raw pine nuts, 1/2 cup raw pumpkin seeds, a small bouquet of fresh organic basil leaves,
a clove of garlic mashed in a mortar and pestle with a little sea salt or Himalayan pink salt into a little paste (that takes the stinging bite out of the garlic).
Blend all the ingredients in a food processor with some olive or Udo's oil and add a couple of drops of Lemon essential oil for a really delicious and healthy pesto.
Just have fun...no rules here...just experiment on what you think will taste good!
To clean and increase the shelf life of fresh fruit, fill a bowl with cool water and 2-3 drops of Lemon essential oil. Drop your cleaned fruit into the water and stir. Be sure all surfaces of the fruit contact the lemon water
PLEASE NOTE: The information in this article is based solely on the use of 100% Pure Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils due to their high quality and tested purity.
The use of a brand of uncertain quality and/or purity will provide you with potentially dangerous, if not lethal, results. The author assumes no responsibility for your improper use of this information.
The statements about these oils have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These oils are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Add a couple of drops of Lemon essential oil to sparkling mineral water for a great lemon essence flavor you could add Lemon essential oil to ANY kind of juice.
You can mix Lemon essential oil into yogurt or ice cream, or lemon meringue pie...any desert that lemon would taste good in.
For a spinach fettuccini alfredo take fresh spinach, add garlic, some cream cheese, parmesan cheese and spices, cook it up and then right before serving add some olive oil to the pasta, put a drop of Lemon essential oil on a wooden spoon and stir it into the spinach alfredo sauce and then toss all the ingredients with the pasta -delicious!
Add a few drops to your salad dressing or infuse your olive oil with the Lemon essential oil and use it for dipping.
Create your own pesto with 1/2 cup raw pine nuts, 1/2 cup raw pumpkin seeds, a small bouquet of fresh organic basil leaves,
Blend all the ingredients in a food processor with some olive or Udo's oil and add a couple of drops of Lemon essential oil for a really delicious and healthy pesto.
Just have fun...no rules here...just experiment on what you think will taste good!
To clean and increase the shelf life of fresh fruit, fill a bowl with cool water and 2-3 drops of Lemon essential oil. Drop your cleaned fruit into the water and stir. Be sure all surfaces of the fruit contact the lemon water
PLEASE NOTE: The information in this article is based solely on the use of 100% Pure Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils due to their high quality and tested purity.
The use of a brand of uncertain quality and/or purity will provide you with potentially dangerous, if not lethal, results. The author assumes no responsibility for your improper use of this information.
The statements about these oils have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These oils are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.