Total ad numbers this week were 388,843, an 11% increase from last week's 351,400 ads. The total number of ads broken out by commodity groups: fruit 203,385 (52% of all ads), onions and potatoes 21,063 (5%), vegetables 161,176 (41%), herbs 975 and ornamentals 2,244.
Curry leaves are the shiny, dark green, aromatic leaves of a tree from the citrus fruit family that release a deliciously nutty aroma when fried in hot oil. A staple of South Indian cooking, curry leaves are used in Indian and South East Asian cuisine in the same way as bay leaves are used in the West.
The leaves are most often used whole (sometimes in a bouquet garni) and removed before serving (they can be abrasive in the digestive tract). Thai and Laotian cuisine employs bay leaf (Thai name bai kra wan) in a few Arab-influenced dishes, notably massaman curry. Bay leaves can also be crushed or ground before cooking.