With its amazingly floral aroma and fruity zest,the yuzu is a citrus fruit worth tracking downWalk into any garden centre and you’ll find rows of slight lemon, orange and lime trees lined up for sale. But the best citrus of all is trickier to track down, or I can’t understand why.
The yuzu is an uber-fragrant citrus from Japan. Its fruity zest and bracingly tart juice is a result of its mixed parentage – a natural cross between a mandarin orange and the wild Ichang lemon. With the fruit’s newfound popularity among western celebrity chefs for its floral aroma,tiny bottles of yuzu juice now sell for nearly a fiver in UK supermarkets.
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Source: theguardian.com