Garnish - What is your approach and/or thoughts?
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Bacon can be a garnish. I have used crumbled bacon as a garnish on soup that would have been fine with no garnish.
For leek as a garnish, I usually go with a thin slice of the green part and separate the rings. Sometimes I think it looks pretty good and sometimes it is sort of weird looking.I should have cut the leek a lot finer. And used the white part.
It looks like a stalk of celery on there
if you thinly slice some of the greens perhaps they will curl up like the scallion pictured does. If not, oh well, use some scallions. Still in the same family!
pictonguy
Head Chef
We garnish in the restaurant and use microgreens a lot and we'll also use chive, browned panko, parmigiano reggiano crisps, flavored oils like lemon and in some Asian dishes we'll use crispy shallots, deep fried lotus root, chiffonade of lime leaf, thai basil that kind of thing.
on what do you use this lime leaf chiffonade?
are they raw? cooked? just a garnish? do you take out the centre stem? (or does chiffonading them make the tougher stems so small as to make no-never-mind.)
I bought some lime leaves quite some time ago. I froze them as there were so many.
I do not remember the recipe for which I bought them. I would really like to use them and if it is as a garnish... then so be it!
btw- chiffonading is a new word (coined by me) you may add it to your dictionary. No charge. You're Welcome.
pictonguy
Head Chef
No, remove the central stem and we use kefir lime leaves, also called makrut and actually not the regular lime leaves that really don't have much flavor actually. Personally I don't have much use for regular lime leaves and basically they add nothing if I'm being honest.
Not sure what kind of lime leaves they are. Smell beautiful when I bend them, frozen or not.
Are they attached to each other, rather than just to the stem? Did you buy them? Was it in an Asian or South Asian market? If so, they are probably makrut lime leaves. I have never seen regular lime leaves for sale.
Was so long ago I have no idea from where I bought them.
Are the leaves still on the stem? If they are, would you please post a picture. That would help identify which type of lime leaves.
Not sure - been a while. If I come across them again I'll try to remember to take a picture.
grumpyoldman
Senior Cook
i once went to lunch with my boss and his wife at the local golf club and ordered a steak and potato , while we were waiting we could hear the grounds crew mowing just ouside , when they brought our food it was covered with bits of green stuff , i just said out loud " the kitchen must have left the screen door open as the waiter was walking by" i thought my boss's wife was going to wet herself laughing
Kathleen
Cupcake
And copious amounts of cheese.
I like to pretty-up food. However, anything used can be eaten with the dish.
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Shining Wizard
Head Chef
I have a kaffir lime growing in my front yard. The leaves are a beautiful flavour. If you have a rice cooker, add a few leaves to the mix and allow the flavour to infuse. It’s lovely.
I've made this a couple of times but not in the rice cooker. Lemongrass infused rice in Coconut milk. Not sure how the coconut milk would react in the cooker. But it is marvelous.
So now I will try it with the leaves! Seeing as I have a bunch in the freezer.
You add them at the beginning??
So now I will try it with the leaves! Seeing as I have a bunch in the freezer.
You add them at the beginning??
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Shining Wizard
Head Chef
I’ve done the coconut milk rice in the rice cooker and it turns out fine.
The clean up is a bit of a biatch…
The clean up is a bit of a biatch…
Thanks! LOL for the warning as well! But it will be sooo worth it.
Reading that again, it occurs to me that garnish can mean a visual enhancement, but it seems that it can also mean a taste enhancement.
to me garnish means just that - "to garnish" "to adorn" "to decorate" "to embellish" "to decorate"
if it is necessary for taste enhancement then it is an ingredient, not a garnish.
Unless, of course, it's your wages that are garnished.
if it is necessary for taste enhancement then it is an ingredient, not a garnish.
Unless, of course, it's your wages that are garnished.
