Lemongrass Powder

Pale green and fibrous, our Lemongrass Powder has a sweet, invigorating lemon-lime perfume. This fragrant tropical grass delivers the tart flavors of lemon—and a bit of lime—floating in a cloud of gentle, evocative mint, tinged with the sweet floral musk of jasmine. Dried lemongrass has an essential oil content of approximately 2% by weight; that essential oil is primarily composed of citral, the chemical compound that is also responsible for lemon flavors in the lemon tea-tree and lemon verbena.

Beekeepers make use of lemongrass and the essential oils from lemongrass to help their swarms return home. Bees use a sophisticated array of pheromones to complete their tasks; they use pheromones to signal when it’s time to groom a new queen, they use pheromones to signal when to attack a threat, and they use pheromones as a navigational tool, following the scent back to their hive. The Nasonov pheromone is what they use for homing; worker bees release it from the Nasonov gland, found in the abdomen, and fan it with their wings as a way to lure forager bees back to a hive. The essential oil in lemongrass mimics the Nasonov pheromone, so beekeepers will use that to get bees to return to a hive or populate a new one.

Tips From Our Kitchen

Add Lemongrass Powder to garlic and sauté to make larb, a lamb salad with shallots and cilantro. Use cauliflower instead of larb for a vegetarian salad. Stir into the puree for shrimp toasts. Add to a beef and noodle stew, with soy sauce and ginger. Mix into ground pork for Vietnamese pork patties served in lettuce cups. Blend into sweet potato and coconut soup. Make mushroom ramen. Steep in cream for lemongrass panna cotta. Mix with ginger and sugar for a lemongrass granita. Bake into madeleines. Stir into gin or vodka and steep for three days to infuse.

A teaspoon of lemongrass powder is approximately equal to one stalk of fresh lemongrass.

Our ground Lemongrass is grown in Thailand.

This product is certified kosher.

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