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Learn about the essential spices used, both whole and ground, in Indian cooking, and how to use them appropriately.
The 10 common spices Indian food expert Madhur Jaffrey recommends as essential for cooking Indian cuisine. Plus whether to buy each pre-ground or to grind the spice yourself.
A quick guide to essential Indian spices! From whole to ground spices and blends, this guide covers everything you need for Indian cooking.
Basic Spices in an Indian Kitchen. In this post I share with you the details of Indian spices, how they are used and the purpose. This will help you buy and customize your meal with the most essential spices suitable to your palate and body type.
1. Introduction to Indian Spices. If you have ever perused an Indian store or read an Indian cookbook, you have likely noticed a striking number of ingredients, particularly spices. Cumin seeds, coriander seeds, ground coriander, whole chilies, chili powder, turmeric...the list goes on.
We've come up with this list of 24 essential spices that are used in just about all Indian food, encompassing several centuries-old culinary traditions from all over the broad subcontinent. Combining traditional spices to produce beautiful cooking is an almost spiritual act.
01. Asafoetida (Hing) A strong and aromatic gum resin, asafoetida or hing is used during the cooking process or tempered in oil as the first step before adding other ingredients. It is a flavouring agent. Read More. 02. Bayleaves (Tej Patta) A leaf spice or herb, it is mildly aromatic used in curries, rice and spice blends.
Chaats are incredibly diverse — using bases like crushed samosas, puffed rice, or fried potatoes — and a pungent sour and umami spice mix called chaat masala is a very common flavoring that uses...
Indian cuisine is vibrant for both the eyes and the tongue, mostly thanks to the abundant colorful spices used to aromatize food. You can learn to incorporate these spices in your dishes the way Indian cooks do, but it requires time and effort to treat whole, raw spices in every cooking session.
Table of Contents. 7 Essential spices/spice blends used in Indian cooking. Important tips about spices. 5 easy recipes that you can make with basic Indian spices. Additional spices/condiments found in the Indian pantry. Store-bought spice mix for specialty dishes. How to use spices in Indian cooking? Where to buy spices for Indian cooking.