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
  • 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
  • Or the signature mocktail, a calamansi mojito, for a savory and sweet finish.
    Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • The new bar’s take on an old-fashioned channels Boracay, an island in the Philippines, with gin in place of bourbon, plus grassy pandan, coconut water and citrusy calamansi.
    Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Beet salad, jumbo shrimp, roasted oysters and lemongrass chicken are just some of the menu’s offerings, with a calamansi mousse or chocolate cremeux for dessert.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2024

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