Recipes using Eastern Indian Spices?
Posted: March 13th, 2009, 4:38 pm
Recipes using Eastern Indian Spices?
When DD#2 was tea shopping for me at the health food store, she found a whole spice blend labeled “Indian Spice”. I would love to use it somehow, but I don’t know what to do with it. This is not garam masala. I have some of that and I enjoy it, but this is different. I have checked out the LDL Indian style recipes by Little Mary and BookGuy. I probably need to research this through Madhur Jaffrey online.
The Indian Spice is a blend of seven spices: fennel, clove, anise, black peppercorn, dried ginger, and cinnamon bark. There is another seed that I can’t identify. It’s very tiny (slightly larger than an anise seed), cylindrical, brownish black and has a slightly scaly exterior like a tiny pinecone might look. It’s crunchy and bursts with a floral fragrance when you bite it. I tasted a couple of them before noticing that they look a little like black larvae of some kind (gross). Does anyone know what that seed is? I’m fairly certain they are not black mustard or cumin seeds.
I tried brewing the spice blend into a tea and drinking it, and cooking lentils and dark brown rice with it. I ground it as a spice for chickpeas and as a rub on grilled chicken. I know I’m missing something, but don’t have a clue what that is.
Ideas, anyone?
When DD#2 was tea shopping for me at the health food store, she found a whole spice blend labeled “Indian Spice”. I would love to use it somehow, but I don’t know what to do with it. This is not garam masala. I have some of that and I enjoy it, but this is different. I have checked out the LDL Indian style recipes by Little Mary and BookGuy. I probably need to research this through Madhur Jaffrey online.
The Indian Spice is a blend of seven spices: fennel, clove, anise, black peppercorn, dried ginger, and cinnamon bark. There is another seed that I can’t identify. It’s very tiny (slightly larger than an anise seed), cylindrical, brownish black and has a slightly scaly exterior like a tiny pinecone might look. It’s crunchy and bursts with a floral fragrance when you bite it. I tasted a couple of them before noticing that they look a little like black larvae of some kind (gross). Does anyone know what that seed is? I’m fairly certain they are not black mustard or cumin seeds.
I tried brewing the spice blend into a tea and drinking it, and cooking lentils and dark brown rice with it. I ground it as a spice for chickpeas and as a rub on grilled chicken. I know I’m missing something, but don’t have a clue what that is.
Ideas, anyone?