Tips about zest a Lemon

Lemon zest adds lots of flavor to recipes. If you're not sure about where to begin, and how to get the zest properly. Let's give you some ideas!

1.Vegetable Peeler or Knife

Carefully peel off a strip of the lemon skin, working top to bottom.  Peel only the topmost layers of the skin.  If there is any white showing on the underside (the pith), you have peeled too deep.

1Pc Ceramic Peeler

2. Citrus Zester

Traditional zester, which makes long, thin strands of zest, or a knife.  Be sure to finely chop the strands with a knife.  A tool for removing the zest of a lemon. A lemon zester allows one to remove the zest (and only the zest) in long strips.  A zester has tiny cutting holes that create threadlike strips of peel.

Lemon Peeler Zester

3. Microplane version Lemon Grater

In this case, use a fine grater to remove the peel.  To zest with the Microplane, just rub the lemon in one direction against the little blades.  Turn the lemon as you go so you remove only the yellow part. 

Lemon Zester