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Makrut lime

Citrus hystrixAlso called kaffir lime, Thai lime, Mauritius papeda and porcupine orange

Makrut lime is a fruit with a citrus aroma. Cooks use the fruit and skin to infuse, blend into pastes, and season dishes.

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

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

Category
Fruit
Part used
Fruit, skin
Family
Rutaceae
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Makrut lime, whole

Photo: Jiafei Slay Queen · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use makrut lime

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Infuse
  • Paste blend
  • Season

Flavour

Taste and texture

Aroma

  • Citrus

Around the world

Where makrut lime is cooked

2 dishes in the catalogue use makrut lime. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list makrut lime among their ingredients.

Origins

Native to
South-eastern Asia

On the table

Dishes made with makrut lime

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Soto Betawi

    Indonesia

  • Konro Soup

    Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include makrut lime.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: makrut lime 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 makrut lime is called

Names in 68 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Citrus × hystrix · Citrus x hystrix · Lima kafir · Combava

  • French

    Combava · Combawa · Kaffir lime · Cumbava

  • Italian

    Citrus hystrix · Limetta kaffir · Combava

  • Portuguese

    Combava

  • German

    Kaffernlimette · Citrus hystrix · Kaffirlimette

  • Dutch

    Mauritius papeda · Kafferlimoen · Kaffirlimoen · Djeroek poeroet

  • Russian

    Кафир-лайм · Citrus hystrix

  • Polish

    papeda · Citrus hystrix · limonka kaffir

  • Arabic

    ليمون قنفذي

  • Persian

    لیموی کفیر

  • Bangla

    কাফির লেবু

  • Chinese

    箭叶橙 · 树葫芦 · 马蜂橙 · 箭叶金橘

Show all 68 languages

  • Achinese

    Kruët

  • Albanian

    Citrus hystrix

  • Aragonese

    Citrus hystrix

  • Asturian

    Citrus hystrix

  • Banjar

    Limau kuit

  • Basque

    Citrus hystrix

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    кафірскі лайм · Citrus hystrix

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Citrus hystrix

  • Bulgarian

    Citrus hystrix

  • Burmese

    တောရှောက်ခါး

  • Cantonese

    泰國青檸

  • Catalan

    llimona indonèsia · Citrus hystrix · combava

  • Cebuano

    Citrus hystrix

  • Central Dusun

    Limau kulit aparad

  • Croatian

    Kvrgava limeta

  • Czech

    citroník ježatý · limeta kaffirová · mauricijská papeda · kafrová limeta

  • Egyptian Arabic

    حامض كفيرى

  • Esperanto

    Maŭricia papedo

  • Estonian

    Kahvri laimipuu

  • Extremaduran

    Citrus hystrix

  • Filipino

    Kalpe

  • Finnish

    ryppylimetti · Kafferilimetti · Citrus × hystrix

  • Galician

    Citrus hystrix

  • Gorontalo

    Limututu

  • Iban

    Limau purut

  • Ido

    Citrus hystrix

  • Indonesian

    Jeruk purut · Citrus × hystrix

  • Interlingua

    Citrus hystrix

  • Interlingue

    Citrus hystrix

  • Irish

    Citrus hystrix

  • Japanese

    コブミカン · 瘤蜜柑 · スワンギ · プルット

  • Javanese

    Jeruk purut

  • Komi

    Кафир-лайм · Citrus hystrix

  • Komi-Permyak

    Кафир-лайм · Citrus hystrix

  • Korean

    카피르라임

  • Lao

    ໝາກຂີ້ຫູດ

  • Latin

    Citrus hystrix

  • lbe

    Кафир-лайм · Citrus hystrix

  • Madurese

    Jherruk porot

  • Malay

    Limau purut · Pokok Limau Purut

  • Malayalam

    കഫീർ ലൈം

  • Northern Frisian

    Mauritius-Papeda

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    Kaffirlime

  • Occitan

    Citrus hystrix

  • Romanian

    Citrus hystrix

  • Shan

    တူၼ်ႈမၢၵ်ႇဢိုၼ်ႈထိူၼ်ႇ · တူၼ်ႈမၢၵ်ႇဢိုၼ်ႈပႃႇ · မၢၵ်ႇဢိုၼ်ႈၶူမ်

  • Simplified Chinese

    箭叶橙

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    箭叶橙

  • Slovenian

    kombava · Citrus x hystrix

  • Sundanese

    Jeruk purut

  • Swedish

    Citrus hystrix

  • Thai

    มะกรูด

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    箭叶橙

  • Udmurt

    Кафир-лайм · Citrus hystrix

  • Ukrainian

    Citrus hystrix · каффір · кафрський лайм · кафір-лайм

  • Venetian

    Citrus hystrix

  • Vietnamese

    Chanh Thái · Citrus hystrix · Chúc

  • Volapük

    Citrus hystrix

  • Waray

    Citrus hystrix

  • Western Mari

    Кафир-лайм

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: Q465934

Photos

Photo: Jiafei Slay Queen · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons