How to Use calamansi in a Sentence
calamansi
noun-
Stir in the calamansi juice, then reduce the heat to low.
— Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2019 -
Llera makes the daing or dried fish marinade with soy, garlic and calamansi and lets the fish collar sit in the sauce for a week.
— Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022 -
This action just means that the plant is about to produce calamansi fruit.
— Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2023 -
Turn off heat and garnish with scallions and slices of fresh calamansi or lemon.
— Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2021 -
Along with beer and wine, the Magna team is playing around with some house pandan and calamansi lime sodas.
— Michael Russell, oregonlive.com, 9 Aug. 2019 -
There’s a trickle of vinegar and lemon in lieu of calamansi, but salt is in ascendance.
— Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 5 July 2018 -
This plant produces calamansi fruit that can be used for baked goods, jams, fruit preserves, and making drinks.
— Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2023 -
Finger foods like his lemongrass-adobo fried chicken wings, served with a calamansi schmaltz, will find a place on the table.
— Jean Trinh, Los Angeles Magazine, 31 May 2018 -
Recipes might include sluices of soy sauce and calamansi and toppings of shrimp heads, quail eggs, shucked oysters or chicharron.
— Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018 -
She’s collected a following for her pop-ups, serving things like a tamarind creme pie donut and a calamansi and caramelized milk tart.
— Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 27 Sep. 2022 -
Sour, tangy notes are a result of vinegars like palm and coconut, as well as calamansi, the country’s hybrid of sour orange and lime.
— Amanda Albee, Dallas News, 6 Mar. 2020 -
Sit outside or reserve their private room for up to 10 people, and don't miss drinks mixed with flavors like ube and calamansi juice.
— Shaan Merchant, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 May 2022 -
Meyer lemon, yuzu, calamansi, and any kind of orange shine in this preparation.
— Asha Loupy, Bon Appétit, 15 Feb. 2023 -
Less sugar, no high fructose corn syrup, and fun flavors like guava and calamansi.
— Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 7 May 2024 -
Upon order, the slices are warmed in a bistek braising liquid — soy sauce, calamansi juice and onions — before hitting the flat-top.
— Washington Post, 16 June 2021 -
This tart-sweet marmalade delivers the complex flavor of calamansi—a fruit that’s like lime, kumquat and tangerine all in one—grown on Oahu.
— Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2023 -
There were bitter, orange-fleshed calamansi, bumpy Makrut limes, and my favorite, finger limes.
— Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 12 Jan. 2024 -
Sprinkle the fish inside and out with salt, then stuff its cavity with the calamansi rinds and remaining habanero and Fresno chiles.
— Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2019 -
Under the Lemon Trees has a top note of zesty and slightly bitter calamansi lime accord, which is layered with spicy cardamom and sweet and woody petitgrain.
— Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022 -
The difference between Makan’s shredded green mango salad and the fiery competition is the use of calamansi, the Asian citrus with the sweet skin and sour center.
— Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2021 -
Sporting a slight char, these typically come with a dipping ramekin of simply salt, pepper and a whole calamansi.
— Dan Q. Dao, Chron, 6 Feb. 2023 -
There is a calamansi tree out front at Tori Tori, a bright and bushy bit of life-giving green doing its best to offset both the urban aesthetic of Mills 50 and the potent exhaust of its traffic.
— Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Mar. 2022 -
Other beverages include a strawberry mint calamansi drink, a leche flan shake and an ube-Oreo shake.
— Emma Balter, Chron, 5 Jan. 2023 -
Fluid serves a cafe de olla, the traditional Mexican coffee drink brewed in a clay pot, in homage to Tapia’s heritage, and a calamansi drink, a nod to Ty’s Filipino roots.
— Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Aug. 2021 -
With only two chef’s-counter seats offered twice each weekday for lunch, Sinsay prepares a no-menu meal of his own Filipino favorites, like lumpia and calamansi juice, and, of course, that day’s noodles.
— Fortune, 8 Sep. 2019 -
From the archives: toyomansi, evoking a dipping sauce of soy sauce and calamansi, as sharp as lime; and kare kare, a Filipino oxtail stew reimagined as peanut butter with a briny caramel of patis (fish sauce).
— Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 2 July 2019 -
The hardboiled egg is topped with a dollop of egg salad that consists of a complex mixture of shrimp gravy, chicharron, smoked fish, annatto, fish sauce, and calamansi, a sweet and tangy citrus fruit.
— Jean Trinh, Los Angeles Magazine, 31 May 2018 -
The pair’s original calamansi lime flavor includes just five ingredients: lime juice, agave spirit, agave syrup, sparkling water and a dash of salt.
— New York Times, 21 July 2021 -
Their heritage is reflected in their baked goods, like the deep purple ube cupcake with leche frosting and a mini flan on top, calamansi bars and itsumi yuzu cupcake.
— Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024 -
Or the signature mocktail, a calamansi mojito, for a savory and sweet finish.
— Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 17 July 2023
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