These have a warm aroma and a sweetish taste like aniseed. Tastes great with seafood, pork, stuffings, sauces, pickles and some curries. In India it is chewed as a natural breath freshener and as an aid to digestion.
Available in 100g bag.
Also called Kala Jeera this is a more rare form of cumin. Black Cumin is more subtle than brown cumin, the seeds are sweeter, smaller and have a more delicate taste. The first flavour is small, then it grows to a smokey black flavour like lapsang suchong. The after taste is slightly bitter with nuances of citrus and aniseed.
Pawa or Pouwa (also called Poha) is the flattened rice, which is very commonly used as a dish in India. The rice grains are beaten into flat rice flakes to make flattened rice. Fudco Pawa Thin 750g is an easy-to-prepare dish. It is often consumed by adding water and sweetening agents.