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Lemon Recipes

51 recipes with lemon for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

51 recipes

🇪🇸SpainAdvanced

Sweet Dishes

Crema Catalana (Catalan Cream)

The classic Spanish custard dessert with a silky vanilla and citrus cream base topped with a crackling caramel crust. Made with egg yolks, milk, and cream, it is chilled overnight then caramelized with a kitchen torch just before serving.

240 min250 kcal5 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Salads

Chuka Seaweed Salad

A classic Japanese seaweed salad made from chuka (wakame-style sea greens) dressed in a light sesame-soy vinaigrette with chili and ginger. Silky, refreshing, and packed with minerals — the perfect appetizer alongside sushi or miso soup.

10 min45 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌱Vegan

🇮🇳IndiaMedium

Soups

Dal — Spiced Indian Lentil Soup

A warming Indian red lentil soup tempered with cumin, turmeric, coriander, and ginger — finished with a sizzling spiced ghee pour. One of the most comforting and nourishing dishes in Indian home cooking. Serve with warm chapati or basmati rice.

30 min190 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

🇫🇷FranceAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Roast Chicken

A whole chicken roasted with herb butter under the skin, lemon and garlic in the cavity. The skin crisps at high heat first, then the bird finishes low and slow — the simplest way to get juicy meat and a proper crackling skin.

90 min340 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Baked Salmon

Salmon fillets brushed with garlic butter, Dijon mustard and a touch of brown sugar, baked at moderate heat until the center is just barely opaque. Done in 25 minutes and nearly impossible to get wrong if you watch the temperature.

25 min320 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Honey Garlic Salmon

Salmon fillets coated in a sticky honey-garlic-soy glaze, baked until just flaky and finished under the broiler for caramelized edges. Four ingredients that matter, 20 minutes total — one of the most searched salmon recipes for good reason.

20 min340 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Greek Chicken Bowls

Chicken thighs marinated in Greek yogurt, lemon and oregano, baked until charred at the edges, served over rice with cucumber, tomatoes, red onion, feta and a quick homemade tzatziki. Around 40g of protein per bowl — Mediterranean flavors in one assembly.

40 min490 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇺🇸USAMedium

Soups

Lentil Vegetable Soup

Red lentils with carrots, celery, onion, tomatoes and cumin in a simple broth. Lentils dissolve into the soup as they cook, giving it body without any blending. About 14g of fiber per bowl. Gets better the next day.

45 min310 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

🇺🇸USAMedium

Salads

Chickpea Spinach Skillet

Chickpeas sautéed with onion, garlic, tomatoes and cumin, with spinach stirred in at the end. Done in 25 minutes in one pan. About 11g of fiber per serving. Good over rice, with eggs poached on top, or with flatbread.

25 min340 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Grilled Shrimp

Jumbo shrimp marinated in garlic, lemon, smoked paprika and olive oil, then grilled fast over high heat. Ready in 30 minutes, works as a main or an appetizer.

30 min220 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Foil Packet Fish

White fish fillets sealed in foil with cherry tomatoes, olives, capers, zucchini and lemon. Everything steams together in 15 minutes — on the grill or in the oven. Zero cleanup.

30 min270 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Brown Sugar Salmon

Salmon fillets baked with a brown sugar, smoked paprika and garlic rub that caramelizes in the oven into a sweet, smoky glaze. One of the easiest weeknight fish recipes — done in under 20 minutes.

20 min310 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

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