Made of dried pomegranate seeds, this spice has a mildly fruity, sweet and sour flavor. Used in sour chutneys, Anardana is also used in pastries and breads. Try grinding them and sprinkling over salads or vegetable dishes. Pomegranates are a beautiful fruit, with shiny red jewels called arils inside, containing sweet, juicy nectar that surrounds a white seed in the middle. While opening a pomegranate and freeing the jewels from the fruit is hard work, you might be making it even more difficult by spitting out the seeds.
Fenugreek seeds are small, roughly angular, brownish yellow seeds, which have a pleasantly bitter flavour and strong aroma. The seeds are often toasted to enhance their pungent aroma, and then powdered alone or with other spices. In Indian cuisine, fenugreek seed is a common ingredient in curry powders and pickle powders. It is also used to temper various vegetable and dal based dishes to enhance the aroma and taste.
Natco Ajwan (Carom, Ajwain) Seeds are widely used in Indian bread, gram flours snacks, dals, savoury pastries and are particularly delicious with vegetables.
Panch Puran is a colourful blend of flavourful seeds. Panch Puran is usually fried in oil or ghee before adding anything else to the pot, flavouring the oil and releasing the aroma of the oils in the seeds. Suitable for Vegetarians.
Green Cardamom has a strong, unique taste, with an intensely aromatic fragrance. It is a common ingredient in Indian cooking., Ground cardamom and cardamom pods are used as flavourings in both food and drink. In South Asia green cardamom is often used in traditional Indian sweets and in tea and rice dishes. It is also used in preparation of garam masala powder.
Whole Dried Red Chillies are medium hot, added to hot oil and fried they turn dark in colour and give a lovely flavour to the dish. You will get a hotter flavour if you chop the chillies, releasing the seeds. Popular in hot tarka dishes and thai curry dishes.
SHANKAR RED DRY CHILLI weighing 500g is an essential ingredient in the Indian cooking. The chilli is packed with Vitamin C that helps in supporting the immune system and also works as a spicing agent in various dishes.
Fudco Cinnamon Quills are freshly packed to maintain freshness. Depending on the intensity of flavour required in a dish, cinnamon is used whole, crushed or ground to a powder.
Cinnamon is a highly delicious spice. It has been prized for its medicinal properties for thousands of years. Modern science has now confirmed what people have known for ages.
A plant belonging to the Fabaceae family, fenugreek leaves are used as a herb and the seeds as a spice. ... Fenugreek seeds are hard, stony, yellowish-brown and angular. They have a warm and penetrating aroma, which becomes more pronounced on roasting. Fenugreek leaves a strong bitter aftertaste.