This Meyer Lemon Salt is a zesty seasoning you can use on chicken, beef, fish, seafood, vegetables and even snacks!
If you're looking for a great spice to add to a variety of things, this Meyer Lemon Salt is for you!
Not only is it delicious but it makes a great gift for holidays and special occasions. Make a large batch and pour it into cute spice bottles. You can even add gorgeous labels to the jars.
I'm a huge fan of Meyer lemons and all things citrus. Honestly, I cannot get enough of lemon flavored recipes.
I highly recommend trying my Lemon Roasted Fingerling Potatoes. We serve them every year for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. Honestly, I make them as often as possible all year long too.
Fresh lemons are also perfect for making Mini Meyer Lemon Pies and Meyer Lemon Ice Cream Sandwiches. Seriously, citrus is so versatile for sweet and savory recipes.
Now, if you can't find Meyer lemons in your area you can make this with regular lemons. Any citrus works, if I'm being honest.
If you love this recipe and enjoy recipe experiments and DIY recipes, I highly recommend trying my Vanilla Salt, It's a fun recipe to use for baking, especially during the holidays. It's also great for gift giving!
Now get in that kitchen and mix up a batch of this as soon as possible. Your friends and family will love you, especially if you gift them copious amounts of this tasty seasoning.
Ingredient Notes:
- Salt - I recommend using coarse salt for this lemon salt. However, use any kind of salt you prefer, whether it's kosher salt, sea salt or any variation you enjoy eating.
- Lemon Zest - Use fresh lemons for this recipe. Personally, I love using fresh lemon zest but you could also use lemon peel and chop it up once it's dried. Citrus zest needs to be dried before adding to the salt to reduce moisture.
How to Make Lemon Salt:
- Begin by preheating oven to 200 degrees F. Low heat works best for drying citrus zest.
- Then, wash, dry and zest the lemons.
- Line a baking pan or cookie sheet with parchment paper. Spread evenly on the pan.
- Next, place the pan in the oven and bake for about 15 to 20 minutes, checking occasionally in the beginning, then more frequently towards the end.
- Remove pan from the oven and allow to cool completely.
- Place the salt and dried cooled zest to a food processor or blender. Pulse for about 3o to 60 seconds.
- Lastly, transfer the flavored salt to spice jars or a covered container.
How to Store Lemon Salt:
I recommend storing the salt in spice jars or a small covered container. Seal well to ensure your culinary creation stays fresh.
However, I do not recommend storing salt on the counter. Store it in a dry dark place to extend its shelf life. Proper storage makes a huge difference in maintaining flavor.
Variations on Meyer Lemon Salt:
- Limes - Lime zest added to salt makes a lovely lime salt that has tons of flavor and texture.
- Blood Oranges - Using blood orange zest would add visual appeal and a lovely citrus flavor to you salt.
- Mandarins - Any type of mandarin or clementine is a perfect citrus for making seasoning salt. Dry the zest then add to coarse, kosher or flake salt for a tasty seasoning.
- Peppercorns - Black, pink, green and Szechuan peppercorns are all ideal for adding to your flavored salts. Use a spice grinder or mortar and pestle to crush them, then add that to your salt.
- Herbs - Fresh herbs like parsley, rosemary, sage, thyme, oregano or basil. All of them add great depth of flavor to your salt mixture.
- Dried Edible Flowers - Personally, I love rose, lavender or lilac added to finishing salts. You can buy them already dried, or dry them yourself and use a mortar and pestle to grind them.
What Type of Dish Can I Use This On:
- Beef - Any type of roast beef or steak is ideal to sprinkle this over.
- Chicken - Roast chicken (or turkey) would benefit from citrus salt. Basically, any baked or grilled chicken would pair well with this salt.
- Fish - Cod, salmon, trout, bass and so many others would work beautifully with this salt recipe.
- Seafood - Scallops would really pair well with this, mix in some simple ingredients for a fabulous meal. Honestly, almost any seafood will work well and get a flavor boost with flavored salt.
- Vegetables - Whether roasting, grilling or pan frying vegetables, this will add extra oomph to your veggies. You can also use it over raw veggies, and it works really well in salads.
- Snacks - Popcorn is wildly addictive when you add flavored salt to it.
More Lemon Recipes:
- Meyer Lemon Sugar
- Chicken and Potato Bake with Meyer Lemons
- Easy Mini Meyer Lemon Tiramisu
- Chicken and Asparagus Stir Fry with Lemon
- Meyer Lemon Bars
- Cucumber Salad with Meyer Lemon Vinaigrette
Other Lemon Salts on the web:
- Simple Bites: Meyer Lemon Finishing Salt
- 101 Cookbooks: Citrus Salts
- Giada from The Food Network: Rosemary Lemon Salt
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Meyer Lemon Salt
Ingredients
- 1 cup coarse salt use whatever kind you prefer whether it be kosher, flake or sea salt
- 3 medium Meyer lemons, zested wash and dry first
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees F.
- Wash lemons, then dry them off.
- Zest all of the lemons.
- Spread the lemon zest onto a parchment lined cookie sheet. Make sure it's as evenly spread as possible.
- Place the pan in your preheated oven and cook for about 15 to 20 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow it to cool completely.
- In a food processor (or blender) add your zest and salt, pulse for about 30 to 60 seconds or so.
- Place salt in spice jars.
- Store in a dry dark place.
Notes
Nutrition
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Suzanne Perazzini
I love lemons in general and in desserts they are just great at cutting through the sweetness. You do have a darling husband - gifts of lemons? How romantic! Looking forward to the recipes.
Kim Bee
I completely agree. Lemon and sugar are a perfect fit.
Sometimes he's okay, other times he snores. I take lemons as payment for lack of sleep. Rofl!
Dolores
How long would the lemon salt stay good? Also if I wanted to add pepper how much would you suggest for this recipe?
Kim Beaulieu
Hi Dolores. Thanks so much for visiting. Depending on how and where you store it, this should last between 6 to 12 months. I store mine in a cool, dry place. If you can avoid sun and light exposure for spices it's preferable. I'm not a huge pepper person but I'd guess around 1/2 teaspoon. More if you like yours super peppery. For some reason, I've never been a fan of black pepper. I love other types but I find black pepper too strong. Weird, right? t
Terra
I love your Meyer lemon addiction, then I can enjoy all your gorgeous recipes! Love the idea of a Meyer lemon salt, it would be delicious on meat we plan to grill or smoke.....YUM! Hugs, Terra
Kim Bee
Thanks Terra. I love meyers, I also really like that you can sub in regular lemons if you cannot find meyers. It's great on meat, particularly chicken.
Hope you have a great week.
Anne
Love this! I made a similar citrus salt with lemon, lime, orange, and grapefruit for little Christmas presents (we juice, so I end up with lots of peels to use). And I think these citrusy salts would make awesome margaritas, too 🙂
Kim Bee
Thanks lady. That sounds fabulous Anne. I would love to receive gifts like that for Christmas. I bet your family and friends were thrilled.
john@kitchenriffs
Meyer lemon madness! And well worth it. Love the idea of the salt - something I need to try. Thank you. And you've got a keeper in your husband! Or an enabler. Or maybe both. 😉 Really fun post - thanks.
Kim Bee
Thanks John. I just love flavoured salts and sugars. It's like a little addiction of mine.
I figure he owes me for all the food I cook and quite frankly the dude snores so loud it sounds like a freight train, so you know, payback. Lol.
Fran
I make vanilla bean sugar. I will try meyer lemon sugar too! I use very little salt to flavour it.
Might do some though for fresh fish.
Kim Bee
Me too Fran. I love flavoured sugar. I make huge batches of it and give it away as gifts. There will be a recipe for the sugar on Thursday. So check back then to see it.
We only use salt for a few things too, I have high bp so I need to be careful. But this is wicked on fish.
Bernice
Awesome possum! I was just saying to myself...'self, enough with all this snow already, it's April 7th! How can I get rid of the never ending winter blues?' to which I answered 'meyer lemon posts!' And there you were! Cheers!
Kim Bee
I laughed out loud when you said possum, that's my sis's nickname for me.
Happy to be of service to brighten your day. Keep tuning in. I think there's about 12 recipes hitting the blog over the next two weeks using meyers. Wish I'd posted them sooner as meyer season is winding down. I'll have to start earlier next year. Or get my own tree, lol.
Bernice
Ha! That's funny. It started out as a phrase we picked up in Australia but one of my kids' teachers also uses it in place of the 100% mark. So when she gets her papers back there's 'Awesome Possum' written at the top.
CCU
Meyer lemon salt? That sounds scrumptious!!!! I love this, it would be awesome for flavouring 🙂
Cheers
CCU
Kim Bee
It is completely lovely. I have such a weakness for flavoured salts.
Cathy
Shame you don't live near me.......I have a huge Myer lemon tree in my back yard that stays loaded year round!!....and I only use about 5 a year. I'm constantly encouraging neighbors and friends to help themselves..... I love your blog and enjoy all your posts.
Kim Bee
Um, send me your address, I'll have my real estate dude start shopping around for new digs near you. Ha! I'm tempted to try growing a mini one. You can bring them inside in the winter I guess. I really need my own tree. Cuz these little suckers are amazing.
Colette@JFF!
Love homemade flavoured salts!
Kim Bee
Me too. They are super tasty.
Stacy
After lovingly fondling the few, very expensive bags of Meyer lemons in my local grocery store, today I finally did it. Carried them right up to the cashier and paid the ransom to take them home. Now to decide what to make with them since I only have six. (Do NOT ask how much I paid because I am embarrassed to tell.) I am thinking I can allocate one for an abbreviated version of your recipe, because this looks too good not to try. Can't wait for the round up. No, I mean that literally. Hurry and hit Publish on that post. 🙂
Kim Bee
I would use the zest for salts, then make curd. Then turn the curd to pie. Or those little parfaits I make use curd. The round up won't be up till the end of event, so almost two weeks. Sure hope there's still meyers then. Next year I need to do this way earlier. Trust me Stacy, you will thank me. These lemons are gold. You will love them.
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef
I wish it were meyer lemon season here! Yummo.
Kim Bee
It is ending here, barely any left. Next year I'll have to post this a month or two earlier. It's hit and miss finding them right now. I need my own tree.
Carol | a cup of mascarpone
I am so going to do this, pronto...I'm in love with it!!! Thanks for sharing, Kim! Pinning now!
Kim Bee
Yes, hurry as meyers season is ending quickly. Getting harder and harder to find. We searched 5 stores today. I'm going to cry when it's over.
Thanks so much and yah for pinning. Thank you.
Jennie @themessybakerblog
I love all of your meyer lemon recipes. Seriously, the meyer lemons should know how loved they are. And, what a great hubs you have. This salt sounds delicious.
Shelby | Diabetic Foodie
I'm off to look for Meyer lemons - I actually have a chance of finding them in my new town 🙂
The Mom Chef ~ Taking on Magazines One Recipe at a Time
I so wish I could find meyer lemons. I look for them at every grocery store I hit, but have yet to see a single one. I want, I want, I want. The salt looks amazing.
Ramona
Wow, what a fantastic salt!! I bet it would go great on anything. 🙂
Susan
You know I love meyer lemons too and this salt is awesome!
Stephanie @ Eat. Drink. Love.
I put lemon on like everything so this looks so great!
Dara
Yum. What a cute idea. I bet this would make a great gift.
Dina
this is a great idea! i'm trying to eat more fish and this would help!