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Ingredient

Torch ginger

Etlingera elatiorAlso called etlingera elatior

Torch ginger is used for its buds and flowers. Cooks add them to stews and pair them with fish.

Part used
Bud, flower
Family
Zingiberaceae
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Torch ginger, plant

Photo: Filo gèn' · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use torch ginger

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Stew

Goes well with

Around the world

Where torch ginger is cooked

7 dishes in the catalogue use torch ginger. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list torch ginger among their ingredients.

Origins

Native to
South-eastern Asia, Indonesia

On the table

Dishes made with torch ginger

6 of the 7 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Kuwah Pliëk U

    Indonesia

  • Arsik

    Indonesia

  • Dengke Mas Naniura

    Indonesia

  • Eungkot Paya

    Indonesia

  • Natinombur

    Indonesia

  • Tasak telu

    Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include torch ginger.

Cooked together

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

What torch ginger is called

Names in 49 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Etlingera elatior

  • French

    Rose de porcelaine · Etlingera elatior

  • Italian

    Etlingera elatior

  • Portuguese

    Rosa-de-porcelana · Etlingera elatior · Rosa de porcelana

  • German

    Etlingera elatior

  • Dutch

    Etlingera elatior

  • Russian

    Etlingera elatior

  • Polish

    Etlingera wyniosła · Etlingera elatior

  • Chinese

    火炬姜

  • Japanese

    トーチジンジャー

  • Thai

    ดาหลา · ต้นดาหลา

  • Vietnamese

    Etlingera elatior

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  • Achinese

    Kala · Etlingera elatior · Bungong Kala

  • Albanian

    Etlingera elatior

  • Aragonese

    Etlingera elatior

  • Asturian

    Etlingera elatior

  • Balinese

    Kecicang

  • Banjar

    Patikala

  • Basque

    Etlingera elatior

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Etlingera elatior

  • Bulgarian

    Etlingera elatior

  • Catalan

    Etlingera elatior

  • Cebuano

    Etlingera elatior

  • Central Dusun

    kombugu · tompu

  • Esperanto

    Etlingera elatior

  • Extremaduran

    Etlingera elatior

  • Finnish

    Etlingera elatior

  • Galician

    Etlingera elatior

  • Ido

    Etlingera elatior

  • Indonesian

    Kecombrang · Honje · Bunga kantan · Kantan

  • Interlingua

    Etlingera elatior

  • Interlingue

    Etlingera elatior

  • Irish

    Etlingera elatior

  • Javanese

    Kecombrang

  • kge

    Jabung

  • Latin

    Etlingera elatior

  • Latvian

    Malajas laterningvers

  • Malay

    Bunga kantan · Kecombrang

  • Minangkabau

    Kincuang · Sambuang · Kincong

  • Nias

    Silimo

  • Occitan

    Etlingera elatior

  • Romanian

    Etlingera elatior

  • Slovenian

    Etlingera elatior · ingverjeva bakla · cesarsko žezlo

  • Sundanese

    Honjé · Honje

  • Swedish

    Fackelingefära · Etlingera elatior

  • Tahitian

    ’ōpuhi ra’ura’a pa’ari

  • Ukrainian

    Etlingera elatior

  • Volapük

    Etlingera elatior

  • Waray

    Etlingera elatior

  • Western Panjabi

    گلابی دیوا

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: Q3442435

Photos

Photo: Filo gèn' · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons