What Is Sugar cane and How Can I Use It?

Wondering what to do with sugar cane? This guide covers how to pick it, cook it, store it, and swap it — with 7 recipes to put it to work.

Recipes using sugar cane

There are 7 recipes that contain this ingredient.

Vanilla Velvet Ice Cream

Vanilla velvet ice cream skips the custard cooking step and folds whipped eggs straight into a sea of heavy cream and half-and-half. Old-fashioned uncooked ice cream maker recipe with deep dairy flavor.

Christmas Eve Salad

Ensalada de Nochebuena, a traditional Mexican Christmas Eve salad with oranges, bananas, beets, jicama, pineapple, peanuts, pomegranate seeds, and sugar cane on a lettuce-lined platter.

Skewered Shrimp on Sugar Cane with Mango Lime Salsa

Caribbean-spiced grilled shrimp served on charred sugar cane with a fresh mango lime salsa spiked with ginger, coriander, and molasses. A tropical showstopper in 35 minutes.

Sugar Cane Shrimp

Herb-marinated shrimp skewered on sugar cane spears, broiled and served over golden tofu with shredded daikon and balsamic vinaigrette. A stunning fusion appetizer.

Duck with Sugar Cane - Vit Tiem Mia

Vit Tiem Mia is a traditional Vietnamese braised duck wrapped in sugar cane, stuffed with peanuts, chestnuts, ginkgo nuts, and lotus seeds, simmered in coconut water until fork-tender.

Red Hot Apple Cinnamon Pie

Great apple pie recipe that we have used for years. Perfect with a cup of hot apple cider.

Chao Tom (Shrimp & Sugar Cane Rolls)

Authentic Vietnamese shrimp paste molded around sugar cane sticks, broiled until bright orange, and wrapped in rice paper with fresh mint, cilantro, and cucumber. Dipped in tangy nuoc cham sauce, these are a Southeast Asian street food classic.

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