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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 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 angustifolium, known as "wild cardamom" in English, [2] is a species in the ginger family Zingiberaceae that grows in tropical Africa and in Madagascar. [1]
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]
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 .
Amomum subulatum, also known as black cardamom, hill cardamom, [2] Bengal cardamom, [2] greater cardamom, [2] Indian cardamom, [2] Nepal cardamom, [2] winged cardamom, [2] big cardamon, [3] [4] or brown cardamom, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the family Zingiberaceae.
Elettaria cardamomum, commonly known as green cardamom or true cardamom, is a herbaceous, perennial plant in the ginger family, native to southern India.It is the most common of the species whose seeds are used as a spice called cardamom that has a sharp, strong, punchy aroma.