24-Hour Preserved Lemons

Name: 24-Hour Preserved Lemons
Yield: Makes 1 cup
Ingredients: 3 , lemons, rinsed; 3 tablespoons, sugar; 3 tablespoons, table salt; 3/4 cup, extra-virgin olive oil

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2020

Side Dishes

Fruit

SERVESMakes 1 cup

TIME10 minutes, plus 24 hours curing

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

It's important to slice the lemons thin. Sugar offsets the acidity and bitterness of the fruit, and olive oil helps soften the pith.

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