Lemon grass for SE Asian curry kits

After deciding which new dishes add to the Spice Almighty range I have tracked down several reputable wholesalers. Last year I was soooo pushed for time I was paying through the nose ( not literally...) Cardamom and cloves are damn expensive even though they're tiny.

I was lucky to chance upon the Asian Cookshop who can supply the bulk of my needs. However there was one new ingredient that was proving to be elusive....FREEZE DRIED LEMON GRASS. It took me ages but this week it finally arrived - 1kg of it...thats a lot to Rendang, Laksa and Massaman curry kits !!!

Spice Almighty NEW flavours NEW packs

I have finally got round to developing the next FAB FOUR 'flavours' in the Spice Almighty spice kit  range.

There was much deliberation as they had to fit within the 'whole and ground spice in lil packs' format. Quite a feat if you know what goes into SE Asian currie. It was a bit of a conundru, and I wasted several little trees worth of paper in the process of writing out methods and recipes.

They will be called

MAGNIFICENT MALAYSIAN RENDANG
BETTER THAN A BIRYANI
TANTALISING THAI MASSAMAN
LOVELY SINGAPORE LAKSA

From the beginning I always imagined a broad mix of curries from all over Asia, not just the Indian continent. And I feel these are much closer to the beloved Burmese curries I grew up with.

Just got to make sure the other half has time to design them.