Harvesting lemon grass
Harvest and Store
February 01, 2010
I harvested the lemon grass to prepare some recipes (Thai chicken soup - Tom Ka Gai and Yellow Thai curry paste), and I took a few pictures.
Lemon grass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) have long leaves, but the part used as aromatic herb is the stalk.
Every plant has a cluster of stalks, like long bulbs. You should harvest the thicker ones, simply cutting off them while the others will continue to grow.
If you accidentally pull some smaller stalks, you can reset them as new plants. This is also a way to reproduce the plant.
Clean the stalk, discarding the external leaves.
A lemon grass stalk can be put in a glass of water and stored for a couple of days.
Read also:
Thai curry paste
Lemon grass recipes
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