Hey fellow adventurers! A lot of things come to mind when I think about India and spices are definitely one of them. India produces over 70% of the world’s spices. They love their spices! And I can’t blame them. I love using spices to make up for my terrible cooking skills. Now, I’m not saying Indians do this (Indian is my favorite food), but you can. When I’m talking about spices, I don’t just mean spicy spices but everything. I can’t handle anything spicy, personally. Unfortunately, I can’t talk about every spice that comes from India but I’ll cover the most popular.
Corianders Seeds (Dhania) and Powder
Corianders is sweet and tangy with a slight citrusy taste. It is commonly used in making pastries, bread, and fish. It is also occasionally used as a replacement for salt in savory meals and is a key ingredient in curry.
Cumin Seeds (Jeera)
Cumin seeds have a nutty, somewhat bitter taste with a slight hint of lemon. It is used to flavor rice and stuffed vegetables, as well as add to a lot of savory dishes and curries (especially beef dishes). Often times, cilantro is also added.
Cardamom Black (Badi Elaichi or Kali Elaichi)
Cardamom is one of India’s favorite spices. It’s commonly used in curries, savory and sweet dishes, ice cream and custards. It is also the 3rd most expensive spice in the world. Cardamom has a sweet, lemony, eucalyptus flavor.
Mustard Seeds (Sarson/Shorshe/Rai)
Mustard seeds have a mild, somewhat bitter taste. Raw food can be cooked in oil flavored with mustard seeds or it can be poured over some dishes just before serving. They help emulsify liquids use in salad dressing recipes to help blend oil and vinegar and add a spicy zip. They are a popular addition to vegetable dishes, beans, pastries and pickles.
Turmeric Powder (Haldi)
Turmeric has a pungent, bitter flavor with scents of orange and ginger. It is one of India’s favorite spices and the 9th most expensive spice in the world. It is used in curries, fish dishes and with beans. Sometimes people use turmeric instead of saffron because of its bright, yellow color.
Red Chili Powder
Red chili powder is very hot because it is made from the hottest part of the chili, the dried, ground seeds of the chili. Unlike other chili powders, Indian chili powder is pure ground chilis.
Ginger (Adrak)
Ginger is both spicy and sweet. It can be used in sweet dishes, desserts, or in savory dishes such as hot curries and stir fries. It is considered an aphrodisiac.
Garam Masala
Garam Masala means “hot spices” and is made up of a mixture of ground spices (often cloves, cardamom, cumin, peppercorn, cinnamon, and bay leaves). The portions and spices change depending on what you’re making. Garam Masala is different for a fish recipe versus a beef or chicken recipe.
Cinnamon (Darchini)
Cinnamon is a sweet tasting spice and many find the smell of it to be calming. It’s the 5th most expensive spice in the world. It is available as a powder but a lot of people prefer it in stick form. Whole cinnamon is used for spacing hot drinks, ground – in cakes, sweet dishes, fruit pies (especially apples), as well as being used in more savory dishes, such as curries, and combines perfectly with chicken.
Cloves (Laung/Lavang/Grambu)
Cloves have been used in India for thousands of years, not only in cooking, but to sweeten the breath and to relieve the pain of toothache. They contain a mild anesthetic. It’s the 4th most expensive spice in the world. Whole cloves are frequently used to flavor meat dishes, curries, and soups.
Fenugreek Seeds (Methi)
Fenugreek seeds have a curry-like taste. In fact, it is one of the main ingredients of curry powders. It is also used to add flavor to meat dishes. And is considered an aphrodisiac.
Fennel Seeds (Saunf or Mouri)
Fennel seeds taste like a more bitter version of black licorice. It’s used to sweeten curry dishes and is sometimes paired with peanuts or citrus fruits. They’re most popularly roasted and eaten after a meal to freshen the breath.
Nutmeg (Jaiphal)
Nutmeg has a slightly sweet, nutty taste. It is the 7th most expensive spice in the world. Nutmeg is used to add sweet and savory flavor to dishes such as pies, custards, puddings, cakes, soufflés, vegetables, egg dishes, lamb, fish, and beverages.
Peppercorns (Kali Mirchi)
Peppercorns have a pungent, woody aroma and hot, biting taste. It is the 8th most expensive spice in the world. Pepper is the only spice that is used to flavor food before, during and after cooking. Whole or grounded peppercorns can be added to most savory dishes.
Asafoetida
Asafoetida is also known as devil’s dung due to its pungent smell while raw. Most commonly used in powder form, asafoetida gets a truffle-like flavor and garlicy smell once cooked. It is mainly used for digestive purposes due to its supposed antiflatulence properties.
Saffron (Zaffran)
Saffron has a distinctively pungent, honey-like flavor and aroma. It is by far the most expensive spice in the world with one pound costing anywhere between $2,200-8,000. It’s available in either thread and powder form. The threads can be lightly roasted, crumbled in a hot water and left to infuse to bring out their full strength. Saffron is used to color rice dishes, sweets, puddings, sauces and soups to bright yellow.
If there’s any spices you think should have been on the list that wasn’t, please comment below! Until our next adventure!
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you
Wonderful blog you have here but I was curious about if you knew of any forums that cover
the same topics talked about in this article?
I’d really love to be a part of group where I can get feed-back from other knowledgeable individuals that share the same
interest. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
Cheers!
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you
Right now it seems like BlogEngine is the top blogging platform
available right now. (from what I’ve read) Is that what you’re using on your blog?
brawl stars gems hack
Fantastic web site. A lot of useful information here.
I am sending it to several buddies ans also sharing in delicious.
And of course, thank you for your sweat!
I love your blog.. very nice colors & theme. Did you
make this website yourself or did you hire someone to do it for you?
Plz answer back as I’m looking to design my own blog and would like to find out
where u got this from. many thanks
Thank you for the good writeup. It in reality was once a entertainment
account it. Glance advanced to far introduced agreeable from you!
However, how can we be in contact?
I love it when folks come together and share opinions. Great site, keep it up!
Since the admin of this website is working, no uncertainty very soon it will be famous,
due to its feature contents.
I have been browsing on-line greater than three hours lately, yet I never discovered any attention-grabbing article like yours.
It is lovely value sufficient for me. In my opinion, if all webmasters and bloggers made just right content as you probably did, the net might be much more helpful than ever before.
Wonderful blog! I found it while surfing around on Yahoo News.
Do you have any suggestions on how to get listed in Yahoo News?
I’ve been trying for a while but I never seem to get there!
Many thanks
Unquestionably believe that which you said. Your favourite justification appeared to be at the internet the easiest thing
to have in mind of. I say to you, I certainly get irked even as folks think about issues that
they just do not know about. You controlled to hit the nail upon the highest as
well as defined out the whole thing without having side effect , other folks could take a signal.
Will probably be back to get more. Thanks
Hi, I think your blog might be having browser compatibility issues.
When I look at your website in Chrome, it looks fine
but when opening in Internet Explorer, it has some overlapping.
I just wanted to give you a quick heads up!
Other then that, terrific blog!
Hiya very cool web site!! Guy .. Beautiful .. Superb ..
I’ll bookmark your blog and take the feeds also? I’m happy to seek out so many useful info
here in the publish, we need develop extra strategies on this regard, thanks for sharing.
. . . . .
Link exchange is nothing else however it is simply placing the other person’s weblog link on your page at appropriate place and other person will also do similar in favor of you.
Hi, I think your website may be having internet browser compatibility problems.
Whenever I look at your site in Safari, it looks fine however when opening in I.E.,
it has some overlapping issues. I merely wanted to give you a quick heads up!
Besides that, fantastic blog!
What’s up, I would like to subscribe for this website to get most recent updates, so where can i do it please help.
Thanks for every other informative site.
Where else may just I am getting that kind of information written in such an ideal method?
I’ve a challenge that I’m just now running on, and I have been at the glance out for
such info.
Incredible points. Sound arguments. Keep up the good work.
Hi there to every one, the contents present at this
website are actually awesome for people experience, well, keep up the nice
work fellows.
Hi there! This post couldn’t be written any better! Reading this post reminds me of my old room mate!
He always kept talking about this. I will forward this article
to him. Pretty sure he will have a good read.
Thank you for sharing!
Great blog here! Also your web site loads up fast!
What host are you using? Can I get your affiliate link to your host?
I wish my website loaded up as quickly as yours lol
I am in fact grateful to the holder of this website who has shared this wonderful post at here.
I know this web site provides quality dependent articles and additional material, is there any other website which offers such stuff in quality?
Hi there, I read your blog on a regular basis.
Your humoristic style is awesome, keep up the good work!
Its like you learn my mind! You seem to understand a lot approximately this, like you wrote the e book in it
or something. I believe that you just could do with a few percent to
power the message home a little bit, but other than that, that is magnificent blog.
A fantastic read. I will certainly be back.
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you
Hello there! I could have sworn I’ve been to this blog before but after browsing through some of the post I realized it’s new to me.
Nonetheless, I’m definitely glad I found it and I’ll be
book-marking and checking back frequently!
I read this article completely on the topic of the difference of newest and earlier technologies, it’s amazing article.
An outstanding share! I’ve just forwarded this onto a co-worker who has been doing a little homework on this.
And he actually bought me dinner due to the fact that I
discovered it for him… lol. So allow me to reword this….
Thank YOU for the meal!! But yeah, thanx for spending the time to discuss this issue here on your web page.
thank you
thank you