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Thai herbs in the kitchen

Know, grow, use and keep the Thai herbs that go into everyday cooking, and where eating them as food ends and taking them as medicine begins.

4 lessons · about 24 min in total

  1. 1 10 Thai kitchen herbs: which part to use, look-alikes, and buying freshLemongrass, galangal, makrut leaf, holy basil, Thai basil, fingerroot, turmeric, bird's eye chili, pandan and culantro: what to use, how they taste, how to pick them. 6 min read
  2. 2 Grow Thai kitchen herbs in pots: lemongrass, galangal, basil, makrut, pandanRoot market lemongrass, grow galangal, turmeric and fingerroot from rhizomes, raise basil, keep makrut and pandan in pots, and harvest so they keep producing. 7 min read
  3. 3 Herbs as food vs herbs as medicine: turmeric, andrographis, fingerrootTurmeric in a curry is not turmeric in a capsule. Dose, concentration, how long you take it and other medicines change the risk. When to ask a doctor or pharmacist. 5 min read
  4. 4 Keeping herbs: fridge, freezer, drying, and what never to doCoriander goes in the fridge, Thai basil hates the cold, lemongrass, galangal and makrut lime leaves freeze well, and homemade garlic in oil needs care. 6 min read