Making Lemon Zest for Macaroni & Cheese

Video Transcript

"SCHMUEL: One of the things that set this kosher-style macaroni and cheese apart from some of the others is the addition of lemon zest. It's going to give it a nice fresh taste on the tongue, and we don't need that much so we're just going to be using--zesting--about a teaspoon. And I like to use--this is a grater that I have. It's also used for--you can also use it for grating cheese if you have a big block, and what we want to do is just get the dark yellow. See how we've made one little pass and now it's a light yellow. We don't want to go any further on that because that gets--it starts to get bitter, and none of that flesh holds the oil. It's the lemon oil that we still want that's in the zest, and it's very easy. And these lemons, I don't know if you know this, but I grow these in my own backyard. And this is such a wonderful, fresh variety of lemons. They almost look like oranges. And that's about all that we need for the lemon zest there. It's about half a teaspoon or so. So you can find these lemon zesters at any gadget store or you can use a zester--you can also peel the lemon zest off with a knife and chop it off by hand into small fine dice, but this is the easiest and fastest way. If you're getting tools in your kitchen, this is a wonderful tool to add. So this is the lemon zest for the macaroni and cheese. And keep clicking and we're going to show you some more things in how to make mac-cheese."