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When purchasing yuzu for cooking, consider its tartness and ways you might want to cut it down with things such as vinegar or sweeteners. Additionally, if you're using yuzu for a cocktail or dip, you might need thickeners, or when using it as a marinade, you'll want other common marinade ingredients like soy sauce, sugar, pepper flakes or whole jalapeno peppers, and honey.

For cocktails using the fruit, try a fitting alcohol (gin, vodka, and rum are yuzu musts), crushed ice, mint, simple syrup, and orange bitters. Tofu, chicken, salmon, sugar snap peas, asparagus, water chestnuts, and many other garden-fresh or savory flavors work well with yuzu's tartness. It's even effective as a marinade ingredient for red meats. Consider adding a side starch like rice, quinoa, potatoes, or green beans to help neutralize entrees involving yuzu.

Yuzu is often used in dishes for the zest or juice, such as traditional Japanese grilled sliced mushrooms marinated in yuzu. It also is common as a spice or as a cocktail, dip, or salad dressing ingredient. The fruit offers a zing, a both tart and sour flavor to anything that might benefit from that small kick.

Yuzu is also found in sauces for salmon or avocado dishes as part of Japanese flavors for salads and dips. Many find yuzu is one of the most pivotal secrets to how Japanese cuisine tastes as interesting as it does, and there is no shortage of uses for it in Japanese and Korean cuisines. Some juices or smoothies also incorporate yuzu as a health superfood or for a unique citrusy flavor.