Sentences with phrase «find kaffir lime»

** Substitute with extra lime juice if you are unable to find kaffir lime leaves.

** I was not able to find kaffir lime leaves.

It is not common to find kaffir lime leaf or lemongrass so they can be omitted.

Not exact matches

If you can get your hands on kaffir lime leaves, which can be found frozen at Asian markets, do not hesitate to include them, you'll be in for a real treat.

I even had to make a couple substitutions (I couldn't find galangal or kaffir lime leaves) and it still tasted amazingly good, but next time I'm going to make the effort to track down all of the authentic ingredients so that I can see just how much more amazing it can taste!

* 8 cups organic chicken stock, preferably homemade * 5 kaffir lime leaves * 1 thumb - sized chunk of fresh ginger, peeled * 2 tablespoons «Dates and Tamarind Cooking Sauce» (I used the one from Stonehouse 27 which is a great combination of sweet and spicy; if you can't find it, I would add a tablespoon or two of palm or brown sugar to sweeten the broth and some minced fresh hot chile pepper / dried Thai chiles / hot chile sauce to spice it up) * 2 tablespoons Thai fish sauce * 3 medium carrots, peeled if not organic and cut lengthwise into strips a few inches long * 1 red pepper, preferably organic, seeded and thinly sliced lengthwise * green tops from 1 bunch of green onions / scallions, cut to approximately same length as carrots and peppers * 12 oz.

Here's what I substitued: - 2 tbls of date sugar and 1tsp of my red chile paste for the «dates and tamarind cooking sauce» - 2 tsp of lime juice for the kaffir lime leaves (since lime juice and lime zest are good substitutes for the leaves if you are unable to find them at an asian store or online)- 1 small sweet onion in place of the green onions.

Also, if you can't find bird's eye chilis or kaffir lime leaves (I was able to find them at my local Asian market), you can substitute jalapeños and add a little more lime juice.

This version uses lemongrass (which I found in the herb section of Whole Foods — and I plan to try planting in my garden soon), and substitutes regular lime zest and juice for the kaffir lime leaves, and ginger root for the galangal.

I decided to adapt the recipes I found on the web to ingredients are easier to find — considering my Italian readers — e.g. ginger for galangal, limes for kaffir lime leaves, cilantro for coriander root.

I would prepare the green - curry recipe (with the added bonus of chicken) found in its pages — just as soon as I could hunt down coconut cream, holy basil, palm sugar, Thai eggplant, and kaffir - lime leaves.