Food & Recipes
10 Appetizing Orange and Lemon Recipes To Try
Start this season with a bang on by bringing in a lot of flavorful, tangy recipes that may be new to your taste buds. By the way, don’t miss the March Food Holidays so you have an idea of what food to celebrate, prepare, and eat. This blog is also dedicated to the 31st of March food holiday which is Oranges and Lemons Day.
Here are 10 appetizing orange and lemon recipes to try if you haven’t yet.
Easy Orange Chicken
How can you surpass your love for chicken? Probably by giving it a zingy twist. One of the appetizing orange and lemon recipes to try is the Easy Orange Chicken cooked in an 11-Inch Nonstick Frying Pan with Lid. Marinade your cubed chicken breasts for an hour using soy sauce, cornstarch, and orange juice, then easily make a sauce with cornstarch, brown sugar, rice vinegar, hoisin, soy sauce, oil, and orange juice. Complete your meal with warm rice.
Roasted Citrus and Herb Turkey
Thanksgiving or not, make sure to bring something exciting on the family dinner table. Roasted Citrus and Herb Turkey is a perfectly appetizing tangy orange and lemon recipe that will make everyone love eating turkey even more. Your loved ones will thank you for the impressive meal you’ve prepared.
Orange-Glazed Pork Loin
Brush some glaze over the roasted pork and put a twist on it. Orange-Glazed Pork Loin is made perfect with brown sugar, Dijon mustard, cornstarch, and orange juice as its glaze. Have a sparkling meal that you and your family’s mouth won’t resist.
Citrus Tilapia
Aside from salmon, tilapia is definitely a mild but appetizing choice to serve on the table. Make it distinct and zesty with Citrus Tilapia recipe. All you need are tilapia fillets, flour, butter, onion, garlic, some seasonings, lime, oranges, and lemons for a more citrus flavor.
Lemon Orange Cake
Get your baking skills to work by making a Lemon Orange Cake for dessert. Gather your cake baking supplies and basic ingredients, including vanilla and lemon extracts. For the frosting, prep some butter, confectioners’ sugar, orange and lemon juice, grated orange and lemon zest, and lemon extract.
Salmon with Mango-Citrus Salsa
A perfect evening with the family deserves a perfect dinner with a punch, thanks to salmon, mangoes, some herbs and spices, and lemons and oranges. The healthy but scrumptious Salmon with Mango-Citrus Salsa can be added to your special cookbook. Use a premium Bamboo Cutting Board to properly slice your oranges thinly.
Orange Beef Stir-Fry
Add a kick to your beef dish and you’ll definitely love it. An easy yet flavorful and colorful Orange Beef Stir-Fry is made possible with these main ingredients: beef sirloin steak, soy sauce, red pepper flakes, garlic, sesame oil, stir-fry vegetable blend, and orange juice. Have a complete meal with hot cooked rice.
Creamy Lemon Garlic Chicken
Creamy chicken is what you always prepare when there’s a family gathering. How about putting a little something to your usual creamy dishes such as garlic and lemon juice? Voila! You now have an even more appetizing Creamy Lemon Garlic Chicken.
Orange and Basil Mussels
Our favorite shellfish, mussels, can be made more special and appetizing with a touch of citrus. Orange juice compliments mussels together with white wine, tomatoes, red chili flakes, garlic, kosher salt, ground pepper, and basil leaves to create an amazing Orange and Basil Mussels better cooked in a 3-Qt Nonstick Saucepan.
Sansa’s Lemon Cakes
For avid fans of GOT (Game of Thrones) out there, you may have a liking (or not) of our queen of the north, Sansa Stark, and her favorite lemon cakes made by her aunt. If you plan on reliving the thrones episodes, then what appetizing way to feast on are those slices of Sansa’s Lemon Cakes and other GOT-themed foods which can be seen in the Red and Purple Weddings. You can easily make them using 12-Cup Silicone Baking Pan.
Something you want to add would be a refreshing iced orange lemonade to make your citrus food experience fulfilling.
Photo Credits:
Easy Orange Chicken photo from Flickr
Roasted Citrus and Herb Turkey photo from Taste of Home
Orange-Glazed Pork Loin photo from Flickr
Citrus Tilapia photo from Taste of Home
Lemon Orange Cake photo from Flickr
Salmon with Mango-Citrus Salsa photo from Creme De La Crumb
Orange Beef Stir-Fry photo from Dinner At The Zoo
Creamy Lemon Garlic Chicken photo from That Low Carb Life
Sansa’s Lemon Cakes by Bon Appetit photo from Bon Appetit