Indian Kafir Lemon

By Jojo
@Sojourn (13839)
India
November 13, 2021 5:34am CST
Hello mylotters , how are you all? Saturday is the day to have a laid back approach to life and maybe prepare some good dishes and indulge in them. I want to bring to your notice this lemon that we have in and around my provinces. They look bigger than the regular ones as you can easily see from the pic, but the selling point is its fresh and mildly sweet fragrance that diffuse the room or kitchen if you keep it in halves. If you squeeze a bit into your rice filled with water (if you ever had such a food ), you can have some heavenly savoury and aromatic rice dish.
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@RebeccasFarm (86976)
• United States
13 Nov 21
Oh so lovely tasty Jojo
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@Sojourn (13839)
• India
13 Nov 21
It changes the flavour of bland food.
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• United States
13 Nov 21
@Sojourn That is something that I love
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@cacay1 (83237)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
14 Nov 21
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
13 Nov 21
That one in the photo looks a lot like a lime, we an buy them here.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
14 Nov 21
@Sojourn Thank you for this photo, we do not have those ones here.
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@cacay1 (83237)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
14 Nov 21
@LadyDuck, why is that lemon green?
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@Sojourn (13839)
• India
13 Nov 21
Here is a picture of its inside. It tastes sour but it has a refreshing fragrance which becomes more prominent when you cut it open.
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@prashu228 (37525)
• India
13 Nov 21
wow such big lemon I like lemon rice..
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@Sojourn (13839)
• India
13 Nov 21
Yes, it is bigger than usual lemons.
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@Shavkat (137261)
• Philippines
13 Nov 21
Can I have some? I can have it with my water in a pitcher here.
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@cacay1 (83237)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
14 Nov 21
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@Sojourn (13839)
• India
13 Nov 21
Do you keep water in an earthen pitcher?
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@Icydoll (36717)
• India
13 Nov 21
Yes we use it some recipes .
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@Sojourn (13839)
• India
13 Nov 21
What recipes do you use it usually?
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@cacay1 (83237)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
14 Nov 21
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@Janet357 (75656)
13 Nov 21
i think we have it too here.
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@cacay1 (83237)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
14 Nov 21
@Janet357, good for you. There's none like it here.
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@Sojourn (13839)
• India
13 Nov 21
Where are you from?
@Jenaisle (14079)
• Philippines
28 Nov 21
Really? You can add this to rice? It's the first time I'm learning about this. But I don't think we have that Kafir lemon available here. Thanks for the info.
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@Sojourn (13839)
• India
28 Nov 21
You can spread it's juice across the rice.
@jobelbojel (34730)
• Philippines
21 Nov 21
This one is different from what we can buy here. We have calamansi as our lime.
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@cacay1 (83237)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
14 Nov 21
that's awesome fruit. First time to see that kind. I don't see like that sold here in malls.
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@Sojourn (13839)
• India
14 Nov 21
I guess they have spread upto Myanmar from here.
@RonElFran (1214)
• Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
21 Nov 21
I'm sure it smells great. I love that citrus smell.
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@Sojourn (13839)
• India
22 Nov 21
Its fragrance transcends citrusness.
23 Nov 21
Is it gandharaj or kagji lemon? It really has brilliant smell
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24 Nov 21
@Sojourn excellent Jojo it is lovely lemon
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@Sojourn (13839)
• India
23 Nov 21
"Gandhoraj" in our language.
3 May 22
I've seen kafir lemon trees in some nurseries during our searches of rare plants and trees to grow in our garden. Instead, we have 3 varieties of comquat trees. I'm curious now about kafir.
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@Sojourn (13839)
• India
3 May 22
The word kafir is an Arabic/Persian word that roughly translates to heathen in English. As the Arabs are the forebearers of Islam, anybody who doesn't follow Islamic principles are 'kafir'.
3 May 22
Dish lesson learned. Thank you. Won't the rice taste sour? But I think I'm going to try that.
@Neil43 (3185)
4 Apr 22
I never saw this one before. Thanks for the information.
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@Sojourn (13839)
• India
5 Apr 22
I wish you could taste one someday.