For the culinary people in your life buy an original and unique gift idea such as a Kaffir Lime Plant. Kaffir Lime Plants and Kaffir Lime Trees have aromatic and distinctively shaped leaves which are commonly used in Southeast Asian cuisine. The fruit is bumpy, rough and green and only reach approx 4cm wide. The plant has glossy evergreen leaves, produces white fragrant flowers and small lime fruits. The leaves can be used in cooking either fresh, dried or from frozen. The zest of the fruit is widely used in Creole cuisine and like lemons; the limes provide an added twist to ice cold drinks.
Kaffir limes
or kaffir plants are a great gift
choice for the person who loves their Asian and Thai food.
Normally you can visit a Thai supermarket and buy the leaves
dried, but generally this is an expensive option so having
your own kaffir lime plant so you can use
the Thai leaves to flavour those Asian recipes is not only
the cheaper option but the flavour of using fresh Thai lime
leaves in cooking has to be the number one choice, not only
do kaffir limes plants produce aromatic
Thai leaves but the kaffir lime plant also
produces medium size bumpy green fruit. The fruit from the
kaffir lime plant can be cut and the juice
squeezed, and to give a real zesty tang why not grate the
rind of the fruit and add into Thai food or sweet desserts.
Kaffir lime plants have a very versatile
use and make a great gift for cooks and a great
plant gift for Christmas, Birthdays, House Warming
or just a simple thank you gift.
The kaffir lime plant is well suited to
being grown in containers and will make the perfect
present for someone who likes to
cook or someone who is interested in exotic
plants. They thrive well on the window
sill and will fragrance the room wherever they are placed.
This plant will make a great 'talking point'
at any dinner party.
The juice and rinds of the kaffir lime plant
are used in traditional Indonesian medicine. For this reason
the fruit is sometimes referred to in Indonesia as Jeruk
Obat - literally 'medicine citrus'. The oil from the
kaffir lime fruit also has strong insecticidal
properties making it a great choice of citrus plant
gift.