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Galangal is a rhizome of plants in the ginger family Zingiberaceae, with culinary and medicinal uses originating in Indonesia. The rhizomes are used in various Asian cuisines (for example in Thai and Lao tom yum and tom kha gai soups, Vietnamese Huế cuisine (tré) and throughout Indonesian cuisine, for example, in soto). Galangal is related to and resembles ginger. While ginger tastes a little like galangal, most cooks who use both rhizomes would never substitute one for the other and expect the same flavor. In their raw form, galangals do not taste the same as common ginger. They are available as a whole rhizome, cut or powdered. The whole fresh rhizome is very hard, and slicing it requires a sharp knife. A mixture of galangal and lime juice is used as a tonic in parts of Southeast Asia. In the Indonesian language, the greater galangal and lesser galangal are both called ''lengkuas'' or ', while ''Kaempferia galanga'' is known as ''kencur''. It is also known as ''galanggal'', and somewhat confusingly ''galingale'', which is also the name for several plants of the unrelated ''Cyperus'' genus of sedges (also with aromatic rhizomes). In Thai language, greater galangal is called "ข่า" (kha) or "ข่าใหญ่" (kha yai), while lesser galangal is called "ข่าตาแดง" (kha ta daeng). In Vietnamese, greater galangal is called ''riềng nếp'' and lesser galangal is called ''riềng thuốc''. The word galangal, or its variant ''galanga'', can refer in common usage to four plant species all in the Zingiberaceae (ginger) family: *''Alpinia galanga'' or greater galangal *''Alpinia officinarum'' or lesser galangal *''Kaempferia galanga'', also called ''kencur'', aromatic ginger'' or ''sand ginger'' *''Boesenbergia rotunda'', also called ''Chinese ginger'' or ''fingerroot'' Polish Żołądkowa Gorzka vodka is flavoured with galanga. ==Footnotes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「galangal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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