Stock up on cupboard ingredients and only buy a couple items per recipe​.
Stock up on cupboard ingredients and only buy a couple items per recipe​.
Stock up on cupboard ingredients and only buy a couple items per recipe​.
Stock up on cupboard ingredients and only buy a couple items per recipe​.
Stock up on cupboard ingredients and only buy a couple items per recipe​.
delicious, straightforward recipes that make cooking every evening a pleasure
A lemon is the simplest ingredient you can use to bring a dish to life; its simplicity and impact lives through everything we do.
Bitter lemon is a recipe website focused on providing delicious veggie-packed recipes to get people excited about cooking from fresh every evening.
It is run by Lily & Leo, who develop, test and photograph every recipe to make them the best they possibly can be for you at home.
stock up on 50 cupboard ingredients and only
buy a few fresh ingredients each time you cook
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Using the same 50 cupboard ingredients across all of our recipes means we only have to buy a couple of fresh ingredients each time we cook. This helps with buying less on shopping trips and cooking last minute meals.
Our 50 most important cupboard ingredients may sound like a lot but you probably have lots of them already. Try stocking up on the ingredients you’ll use again and again when cooking our recipes.
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We've created a collection of the most simple, yet delicious recipes using accessible ingredients and simple techniques that each and everyone can cook.
We never compromise on taste – just how a lemon is simple with intense flavour. Although our dishes are simple, they are all designed with flavour at the heart.
with a focus on recipes that anyone can cook, whatever cooking experience or budget
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about lily
After leaving a full-time career in brand strategy to follow my passion for cooking, I trained at culinary school in London. During that time, I spent every spare moment gaining experience across the food world — from working as a chef at Noma in Copenhagen, to recipe testing for BBC Good Food and running supper clubs with Leiths School of Food & Wine.
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After graduating, I became a full-time recipe developer. I worked with Deliciously Ella before going on to become Head of Food at BOSH!, and have also developed recipes for award winning cookbooks and charity cookbooks including Cook for Syria and From Beder’s Kitchen.
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I’ve now spent nearly 10+ years creating the best veggie-packed recipes for a living — recipes that people cook, share and come back to again and again — and I still love every moment of it.
about leo
Leo isn’t part of Bitter Lemon full-time — he has his own career — but he’s my husband, my partner, and a huge part of what makes it all happen.
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He’d probably prefer me to keep his role understated, but the truth is that Bitter Lemon wouldn’t be what it is without him. From the endless enthusiasm and ideas he brings to the table, to the late nights editing photos and taste-testing the final dishes, he’s been there since the very beginning.
His involvement may be more of a passion project than a job, but it’s invaluable in helping me keep pushing Bitter Lemon forward.
Leo’s dad is a professional photographer who taught us both how to create impactful images, and every food photo you see on this website is taken and styled by us.
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We started Bitter Lemon in the summer of 2020 during lockdown. We were staying with Leo’s family in Kent, cooking big family meals and trying not to break the bank. Friends and family kept asking for the recipes, so we decided to put our skills together and create a place to share them.
