SUPER CHARGE Your Cooking With This SECRET Arab Spice

Something magical happens when the whole fruit is processed like drying here, preserved lemons, and even marmalade. The acidic and bitter compounds do something to each other. I found dried limes when I used to do henna. It has a great fragrance kind of like Coca-Cola.

My parents had two Persian neighbors and my dad started growing limes and preserving them for them. I think he would just let them dry on the tree. They ended up a bit more brown than your yellow ones. I haven't tried cooking with them myself yet, but I'll have to give it a go now that I know how. Thank you Sir!

Grind them with chilies, sugar, and salt and you have a lime chili seasoning that goes on everything.

The first time I tasted dried lime was in a Persian rice dish a friend made. It was an eye opening and rich tasty dish that I loved. I had never till that point known of dried limes in cooking. Thank you for reminding me how easy it is to make and use.

In Iraq we love having the lumi tea after a fatty fish meal and we also make lumi lemonade juice.

on a similar note, Moroccan salted lemons are one of my absolute favs. Being Lebanese we use so much lemon and one of my favorite things about the salted lemons (at least 5 months old) is the softness and the big kicker is OIL SOLUBLE LEMON FLAVOR. instead of lemon juice, sautéing some of the lemon with my aromatics makes every dish nice and lemony, and of course you can put them in marinades or stew and soups. absolutely love citrus

Know of any fun ways to use Loomi? Leave it here for everyone to see!

This was posted just in time. I have lots of Mexican key limes on my tree. Thank you

We had a kitty sighting in this episode! And, true to form, their kitty is one of the floofy ones that you just want to bury your face in.

Lumi is a must in Kuwaiti home cooking and other eastern Arabia countries ( Bahrein, Qatar ,UAE , Oman and the eastern part of Saudi Arabia. My favorite recipe with it is the lentil soup with chicken wings and tomato puree for the base of the broth, so you cook the chicken wings with a mix of Arabic spices before submerging them with water and tomato sauce including the whole punctured lumies and add vermicelli to the soup, this is a stable in our Kuwaiti household starter dish during Ramadan and it's the first thing i start to break my fast with.