What to cook with lemongrass

85 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use lemongrass. 14 of them are built around it. It turns up most in Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese recipes.

recipes use it
85
are built around it
14
median total time
52 min
ready in 30 minutes or less
13

Recipes built around lemongrass

With lemongrass, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with lemongrass

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with lemongrass, out of 85 recipes.

  • Galangal33% of recipes
  • Makrut lime leaves32% of recipes
  • Shallot53% of recipes
  • Fish sauce46% of recipes
  • Coconut milk44% of recipes
  • Garlic80% of recipes
  • Lime35% of recipes
  • Coriander38% of recipes

How much recipes use

Across 64 recipes that give an amount, the median is 1½. Half of them fall between 1 to 2.

Where lemongrass shows up

Cuisines

  • Indonesian24
  • Thai20
  • Vietnamese19
  • Malaysian7

Courses

  • Dinner40
  • Sauce15
  • Main10

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.