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Fruit and vegetables Commodities Examples of spices and their uses…
Fruit and vegetables
Commodities
Examples of spices and their uses
ALLSPICE
Allspice has the flavour of a mixture of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.
Allspice is used mainly in Caribbean cuisine, baking, pickling and for flavouring savoury dishes such as pickled red cabbage.
CARAWAY
It is popular in Jewish cooking and used in seed cake recipes.
This has a strong liquorice flavour and aroma.
CINNAMON
It combines well with fruit, rice, fish, chicken and ham, egg and milk dishes.
Ground cinnamon is combined with dried fruit in some types of rich cake recipes.
This is the bark of the laurel tree which is available in sticks or ground into powder.
CAYENNE PEPPER
It brings out the flavour of other ingredients such as fish.
It can also be used in tiny amounts to sprinkle over savoury dishes as a garnish.
Cayenne pepper is extremely hot and must be used in very small quantities.
CHILLI
They can be used whole, chopped and added to salads such as salsa, or when ground, combined with meat to make dishes such as chilli con carne.
Chilli is available either whole, dried or ground in a variety if colours and taste, ranging from mild to very hot.
CLOVES
Cloves are the flower buds of the clove tree which are pickled before they open and then dried in the sun.
They are used in baking and contain very strong essential oils
CHINESE FIVE-SPICE POWDER
Some have a liquorice flavour.
It is used mainly in Chinese cuisine.
This is a mix of five spices, with numerous variations as to the actual blend of the five spices themselves.
ANISE-PEPPER
It is commonly used in Chinese five-spice powder.
It has an aniseed-peppery flavour.
Anise-pepper - also known as Star Anise - is the dried fruit and berries of the plant.
CARDAMOM
They are used mainly in rice and curry dishes to give a scented aroma.
This is a pod containing the small black seeds of the plant which smell of camphor.
FENUGREEK
It is used in curry recipes.
The seeds are available as a spice and the leaves as a herb.