Nigel Slater’s lemongrass recipes

It’s one of the most subtle and delicious aromatics. Use it in soup, and save some for pudding, tooAt the bottom of the fridge is a little plastic box of aromatics: a hand of ginger, an assortment of red and orange chillies, a tuber of galangal and a tight bundle of lemongrass stalks. This is the box of tricks that comes out when I make pho or any sort of coconut milk curry or soup (the lemongrass neatly cuts the fattiness of the coconut). Today it comes out for a classic and a curiosity.T