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Curry leaf

Murraya koenigiiAlso called curry tree

Curry leaf is an herb sold fresh or dried. Its aroma has citrus, grassy, piney, and sulphurous notes. Cooks dry-toast or roast the leaves, add them to stews, or temper them in vegetable oil with mustard seed and onion.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Part used
Leaf
Family
Rutaceae
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Curry leaf, plant

Photo: Mokkie · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use curry leaf

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Dry toast
  • Roast
  • Season
  • Stew
  • Temper bloom

Preparing it

For powdered spice blends, dry-roast the leaves and then grind them.

Cooking with it

Dried leaves have much less aroma and flavor than fresh ones.

Goes well with

Flavour

Taste and texture

Aroma

  • Citrus
  • Green grassy
  • Resinous piney
  • Sulphurous

Shopping

Choosing and storing curry leaf

Sold as
Dried, Fresh

Around the world

Where curry leaf is cooked

6 dishes in the catalogue use curry leaf. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list curry leaf among their ingredients.

Origins

Native to
Southern Asia, China, South-eastern Asia

On the table

Dishes made with curry leaf

6 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Kuah beulangong

    Indonesia

  • Kanji rumbi

    Indonesia

  • Ayam tangkap

    Indonesia

  • Eungkot Paya

    Indonesia

  • Kuwah eungkôt yèe

    Indonesia

  • Kuwah itek

    Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include curry leaf.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: curry leaf in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What curry leaf is called

Names in 69 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Murraya koenigii · Árbol de curry · Bergera koenigii · Arbol del curry

  • French

    Kaloupilé · Karipoulé · Kaloupile · Murraya koenigii

  • Italian

    Murraya koenigii

  • Portuguese

    Murraya koenigii · Caril

  • German

    Currybaum · Murraya koenigii · Curryblatt · Curryblätter

  • Dutch

    Kerrieboom · Kerrieblad · Murraya koenigii

  • Greek

    Μουρραιΐα του Κένιγκ

  • Russian

    Муррайя Кёнига · Murraya koenigii · Дерево карри

  • Polish

    Bergera koenigii · Murraya koenigii · Murraja Koeniga · Liście curry

  • Arabic

    مراية كونيجية · مورايا كونيجية

  • Persian

    درخت کاری

  • Hebrew

    קארי

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  • Achinese

    Teumuruy · Teumurui · Murraya koenigii

  • Afrikaans

    Kerrieboom

  • Albanian

    Murraya koenigii

  • Aragonese

    Murraya koenigii

  • Assamese

    নৰসিংহ · Curry Patta · Curry tree · Curry-leaf Tree

  • Asturian

    Murraya koenigii

  • Bangla

    বারসুঙ্গা

  • Basque

    Murraya koenigii

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Murraya koenigii

  • Breton

    Murraya koenigii · Kaloupile · Delioù-kari

  • Bulgarian

    къри · Murraya koenigii

  • Burmese

    ပျဉ်းတော်ကြီး

  • Catalan

    arbre de fulla de curri · Murraya koenigii · Fulla de curri

  • Cebuano

    Murraya koenigii

  • Chinese

    調料九里香 · 咖哩葉 · 咖哩樹 · 可因氏月橘

  • Czech

    Murraya koenigii · Bergera koenigii

  • dga

    Murraya koenigii teɛ

  • Divehi

    ހިކަނދިފަތް

  • Egyptian Arabic

    مورايا كونيجيه

  • Esperanto

    Bergera koenigii

  • Extremaduran

    Murraya koenigii

  • Finnish

    intianjasmikki · Murraya koenigii

  • Galician

    Murraya koenigii

  • Gorontalo

    Salam Koja

  • Gujarati

    મીઠો લીમડો

  • Hindi

    कढ़ी पत्ते का पेड़ · करी पत्ता · मीठी नीम

  • Ido

    Murraya koenigii

  • Igbo

    Murraya koenigii

  • Indonesian

    Salam koja · Daun kari · Temurui

  • Interlingua

    Murraya koenigii

  • Interlingue

    Murraya koenigii

  • Irish

    Murraya koenigii

  • Japanese

    オオバゲッキツ · 大葉月橘 · カレーノキ · カレーリーフ

  • Kannada

    ಕರಿಬೇವಿನ ಮರ

  • Korean

    커리나무

  • Latin

    Murraya koenigii

  • Macedonian

    кари-дрво

  • Madurese

    Enggu'

  • Malay

    Pokok Kari

  • Malayalam

    കറിവേപ്പ് · കറിവേപ്പില · കരിയേപ്പ് · Curry Tree

  • Marathi

    कढीलिंब · गोडलिंब · कडी पत्ता · कडीपत्ता

  • Occitan

    Murraya koenigii

  • Odia

    ଭୃସଙ୍ଗ ଗଛ

  • Pampanga

    Curry Tree

  • Punjabi

    ਕੜ੍ਹੀ ਪੱਤੇ ਦਾ ਰੁੱਖ

  • Romanian

    Murraya koenigii

  • Sanskrit

    कृष्णनिम्बपत्रम् · कालशाकम्

  • Shan

    တူၼ်ႈၽႄႉၽၢၼ်းလူင် · ၽႄႉၽၢၼ်း · တူၼ်ႈၽႄႉၽၢၼ်း

  • Simplified Chinese

    调料九里香 · 咖喱叶 · 咖喱树 · 可因氏月橘

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    调料九里香

  • Simplified Chinese (Malaysia)

    调料九里香 · 咖喱叶 · 咖喱树 · 可因氏月橘

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    可因氏月橘

  • Sinhala

    කරපිංචා · Murraya koenigii

  • Swedish

    Murraya koenigii

  • Tamil

    கறிவேம்பு · கறிவேப்பிலை

  • Telugu

    కరివేపాకు

  • Traditional Chinese

    調料九里香 · 咖哩葉 · 咖哩樹 · 可因氏月橘

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    調料九里香 · 咖哩葉 · 咖哩樹 · 可因氏月橘

  • Tulu

    ಬೇಸೊಪ್ಪು

  • Ukrainian

    Murraya koenigii · дерево каррі

  • Venetian

    àlboro de cari · fòja de cari · fògia de cari · fòje de cari

  • Vietnamese

    Murraya koenigii

  • Volapük

    Murraya koenigii

  • Waray

    Murraya koenigii

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q244731

Photos

Photo: Mokkie · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons