Recipes with Galangal

Looks like ginger and is not a substitute for it — sharper, piney, almost medicinal, and the reason a Thai or Malaysian curry paste tastes different from an Indian one. Frozen is genuinely fine here and much easier to find than fresh. If you truly cannot get it, use less ginger and accept a different dish.

4 free recipes below, every one with a full ingredient list and step-by-step method. They run across Malaysian and Thai kitchens. On FoodNeverComes the food never actually arrives — so these are the ones you make yourself.

Beef Rendang🇲🇾 Malaysian · ⏱️ 3 hrCurry Laksa🇲🇾 Malaysian · ⏱️ 50 minOtak-Otak🇲🇾 Malaysian · ⏱️ 45 minTom Yum🇹🇭 Thai · ⏱️ 25 min