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Grinding the pods and seeds together lowers both the quality and the price. For recipes requiring whole cardamom pods, a generally accepted equivalent is 10 pods equals 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 teaspoons (7.4 ml) of ground cardamom. [citation needed] Cardamom is a common ingredient in Indian cooking.
The spice, known as Ethiopian cardamom, false cardamom, or korarima, [2] is obtained from the plant's seeds (usually dried), and is extensively used in Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine. It is an ingredient in berbere , mitmita , awaze , and other spice mixtures, and is also used to flavor coffee . [ 8 ]
The importance of the A. melegueta spice is shown by the designation of the area from the St. John River (near present-day Buchanan) to Harper in Liberia as the Grain Coast or Pepper Coast in honor of the availability of grains of paradise. [13] Later, the craze for the spice waned, and its uses were reduced to a flavoring for sausages and beer.
Aframomum daniellii, also known as African cardamom, is a species of flowering plant in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It was first described by Joseph Dalton Hooker , and got its current name from Karl Moritz Schumann .
The spice can also be substituted in any recipe using grains of paradise or black cardamom to provide a hotter and more pungent flavour. When babies are born in Yoruba culture , they are given a small taste of alligator pepper (atare) shortly after birth as part of the routine baby-welcoming process, and it is also used as an ingredient at ...
Lanxangia tsao-ko, formerly Amomum tsao-ko, and also known as red cardamom or Chinese black cardamom, [3] is a ginger-like plant known in English by the transliterated Chinese name (Chinese: 草果; pinyin: cǎoguǒ; Jyutping: cou 2 gwo 2; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chháu-kó). It grows at high altitudes in Yunnan, [2] as well as the northern highlands of ...
The Silk Road (red) and spice trade routes (blue).. The spice trade involved historical civilizations in Asia, Northeast Africa and Europe.Spices, such as cinnamon, cassia, cardamom, ginger, pepper, nutmeg, star anise, clove, and turmeric, were known and used in antiquity and traded in the Eastern World. [1]