NN · Ingredient 67
Fresh herbs · four recipes
Ingredient 67Fresh herbs
Ingredient 67 · Fresh herbs
Lemongrass
Only the pale inner core of the lower third is worth eating raw; the outer sheath and green top are fibrous and belong in a stock. Citral is the dominant aroma compound, the same one that makes lemon peel smell of lemon.
Item no. 67
Aisle Fresh herbs
Usual unit stalk
Recipes 4
Also called
takrailemon grassseraiCymbopogon
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Recipes using it
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Chicken Marylands braised on a bed of deep-gold onions, with the heat dosed from a chilli tincture
Northern Thai · First revision · 13 OCT 2026Recipe
Spatchcocked chicken in a pounded paste, cooked upright beside wood coals
Isaan · First revision · 13 OCT 2026Recipe
Recipe
Fan oven with a steam tray below, then the top grill for the char
Isaan · First revision · 23 SEP 2026