Green almonds with salt and lemon

Name: Green almonds with salt and lemon
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings (as a nibble)
Ingredients: 300 g green almonds from a tree with sweet almonds (shell still soft); 1 tbsp coarse sea salt or fleur de sel; 1 unwaxed lemon; 2 tbsp olive oil (optional)

Updated on 9 October 2026

Makes: 4 servings (as a nibble)
Time: 10 min
From: Almond

Ingredients

300 g green almonds from a tree with sweet almonds (shell still soft)
1 tbsp coarse sea salt or fleur de sel
1 unwaxed lemon
2 tbsp olive oil (optional)

Method

Choose only fruit whose shell is still completely soft. Cut one open: if the shell is already hard, do not use that fruit.
Taste a small piece of one fruit. If it is bitter, stop: do not eat any almonds from that tree.
Rinse the almonds and rub off the fuzz with a clean cloth.
Toss them with the oil, a little salt, the juice and the finely grated zest of the lemon.
Serve at once as a nibble with drinks, with extra salt for dipping.

Storing: Eat straight away; in the fridge they keep for 2 days at most.