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Alpinia galanga, also called greater galangal, lengkuas, Siamese ginger or laos; Alpinia officinarum, or lesser galangal; Boesenbergia rotunda, also called Chinese ginger or fingerroot; Kaempferia galanga, also called kencur, black galangal or sand ginger
Alpinia galanga, [1] a plant in the ginger family, bears a rhizome used largely as an herb in Unani medicine and as a spice in Southeast Asian cookery. It is one of four plants known as " galangal ". Its common names include greater galangal , lengkuas , and blue ginger .
Kaempferia galanga is used as a spice in cooking in Indonesia, where it is called kencur ('cekur' in Malaysia), and especially in Javanese and Balinese cuisines. Beras kencur, which combines dried K. galanga powder with rice flour, is a particularly popular jamu herbal drink. Its leaves are also used in the Malay rice dish, nasi ulam.
Many of the spices are native to the region of Bangladesh, while the others were imported from similar climates and have since been cultivated locally for centuries. [1] Spices are typically heated in a pan with ghee or cooking oil before being added to a dish. Lighter spices are added last, and spices with strong flavor should be added first.
A spice market in Istanbul Night spice market in Casablanca. This is a list of culinary herbs and spices.Specifically these are food or drink additives of mostly botanical origin used in nutritionally insignificant quantities for flavoring or coloring.
Bumbu is the Indonesian word for a blend of spices and for pastes and it commonly appears in the names of spice mixtures, sauces and seasoning pastes. The official Indonesian language dictionary describes bumbu as "various types of herbs and plants that have a pleasant aroma and flavour — such as ginger, turmeric, galangal, nutmeg and pepper — used to enhance the flavour of the food."
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Jerk, a spicy Jamaican dry-rub for meat primarily made with allspice and Scotch bonnet peppers; Montreal steak spice, a seasoning mix for steaks and grilled meats; Old Bay Seasoning, a seasoning mix of celery salt, black pepper, crushed red pepper flakes, and paprika originally created in Baltimore [6] and regionally popular in Maryland as well as Mid-Atlantic and Southern states, parts of New ...