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Spices and Ingredients

Understanding spices and ingredients is a key part of understanding Indian food. This list is here to help you learn more about the different ones available and how they work with a curry.

Green Cardamom

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Green cardamom, like the black variety, is part of the ginger family. The green cardamom plant, elettaria, is also known as true cardamom and is the most popular variety of cardamom. It is used to flavour food and drink, as a spice and in medicine.

Fenugreek or Methi

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Fenugreek is cultivated worldwide and its seeds and leaves are common ingredients in dishes all across…

Black Cardamom

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The cardamom plant which produces both the black and green cardamom seeds used in cooking…

Curry Powder

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Curry powder is a mixture of spices based on South Asian cuisine.  A similar spice…

Mustard oil

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There are two different oils that the term ‘mustard oil’ refers to.  Both are made…

Turmeric

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Turmeric is part of the ginger family and like ginger, it is a rhizome; a…

Cumin

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Cumin (Cuminum cyminum) Said to be the second most popular spice globally, here we delve…

Garlic

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Garlic is probably the most popular spice not only in Indian cooking, but in cuisines all over the world. It is estimated that 90% of the world’s food contains garlic in some shape or form.

Cloves

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A clove is an aromatic dried flower bud from the Myrtaceae tree which is native…

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