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Step 1
The most common use of bay leaves are for cooking. You can use them to cook soup, stew, steam, stir fry, etc. Use the whole leaves for cooking and pick them up after cooking. It give herbal flavor to the food.
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Step 2
Boiled clams or shrimps! Add bay leaves, salt and minced garlic to boil clams or shrimps to give a nice flavor to boiled clams or shrimps. Some people also drink a little bit of the broth while eating these shell fish. Eat them with melted butter and lemon, sprinkle them with bay seasoning or eat with spicy sauce on the side.
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Step 3
Add bay leaves in the bean soup to give it aromatic flavor and pick them up before you eat the soup. Add in the stir fry, such as beef and tofu stir fry with garlic, shallot, red pepper, tamarind, palm sugar, salt, pepper and coriander powder.
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Step 4
Bay leaves are popular to use in many dishes, such as Indian cuisine, Indonesian foods, Mediterranean, French, as well as North America recipes.
