Ottawa Foodies

The best place I've seen for them is this little shop in the Jean-Talon Market in Montréal...Take this information with you the next time you go. You can't miss it! It's the only Moroccan shop there, right along the stores on the periphery of the open market. He has citrons confits in a huge vat and sells them by the kilo. They also have a great assortment of tagines (at really good prices). At the back, they have an excellent assortment of lamb cuts (if you don't get there too late in the day).

Okay update on the citrons confit. I have seen Pickled lemons at Bouchey's on Elgin. I'm not sure if these are the same thing.

I have also seen them at the Mid East Food Centre on St Laurent as someone has already suggested.

An intersting note: I was in Superstore on Richmond and they had Meyer Lemons available. I believe these are what is normally used for making homemade citron confits.

there is a large middle eastern store on St. Laurent a bit south of the Qway, think it's called Mid-East Food Centre

There was a discussion about these (preserved lemons) here...
www.ottawafoodies.com

From that discussion, I learned (thank you very much) what they were (different than the dried type found at Market 168 and other Asian stores) and then, of course, had to make them myself. Wowsa! Fantastic. I always have a large glass jar of them on the go now. They're a superb addition to your ingredient pool in the kitchen.

"I like to finely dice preserved lemons and mix them with sautéed vegetables, such as green beans, fava beans, or to elevate lowly rounds of carrots into something interesting and exotic, perhaps tossing in a few cumin seeds as well. They're also good mashed into butter with some fresh herbs, then smeared on top of grilled fish or a nice hunk of caramelized roasted winter squash. And I've been known to sneak some into a batch of tapenade, as well as adding some finely-chopped little pieces to a batch of lemon ice cream too!
In addition to their ability to multi-task, there's something comfortable and nice about having a jar of vivid lemons on the kitchen counter to keep tabs on their progess every morning, like a flowering Amaryllis bulb or a family of Sea Monkeys coming to life...."

Those words and a great instructional (the one I use) here...
www.davidlebovitz.com