Ingredients & Spices
Use of authentic spices is important. The right ingredients adds taste and flavour making the recipe unique.
A recipe without the right ingredients is never complete. While you can add a few extra bits, or use some substitutes. We have listed all the spices with the usage of these spices. This will help you to broadly use and innovate with these ingredients, and so it’s not just limited to one recipe, you can actually innovate your own recipe to your taste., and this is what makes the recipe truly Unique. There cannot be a particular taste which can suitable for all. A lot of people cannot handle spicy food, on the other hand, I have seen people who cannot eat bland food. Not to forget, most of them still like to go with authentic food recipes. Well no matter where you stand, we are here to help you with the use and identification of quite a few ingredients, along with loads of unique recipes.
All information about spices and other ingredients is based on my personal research and use.
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Turmeric Powder
Health is wealth!, this ingredient has now been widely accepted worldwide. It not only gives curry its colour but is a very good antiseptic. Right from Milk or Tea, its use is most of the curries and variety of gravies, sauces. This is a must to have an ingredient in our home kitchens. Turmeric is like root, and a lot of village and household in India, get the raw root and crush to a very fine powder.
Black Cardamom Pods
The flavour of these cardamoms is rather different from regular green cardamoms. These cardamoms have a very smoky flavour, they are dried over an open fire. These cardamom s bigger in size and contain a cluster of fragrant black seeds inside. We can either open the use the seeds, or we can use the whole pod. Both the outer and inner seeds are used for flavouring.
Most commonly used in the dried format in 
Cinnamon Sticks
It is an inner bark from several types of tropical trees. The bark from these trees is left to dry up and it often curls up. It has a slightly sweeter and warming aroma. It is also used widely in its powdered form.
Green Cardamom Pods
One of the most widely used of the two cardamoms. We recommend to slightly crush it before use, it has a lovely aromatic fragrance. It is widely used in Indian Chai, and people love its taste. Green Cardamom is also widely used in various Indian Sweet recipes, especially in powdered form.
Whole Black Pepper (Black Peppercorns)
One of the most important spices to have. We use this in various curry along with the regular red chillies to increase the intense of spice level. This can be used alone as a spice in various recipes. A lot Kitchen cooks prefer to ground them to make best use of this Black Pepper.
Cumin Seeds /Whole Jeera
The famouse Jeera Dhaba Rice is incomplete without this recipe. We can use Jeera/cumin seeds to flavour oil befome making lots of Indian curries. Grounded Cumin Seeds are used in butter milk to make it a lovely refreshing summer breverage. This is a must to have Kitchen spice.
Shahi Jeera
Shahi jeera is a blacker, expensive and a bit sweeter compared to cimin seeds. Its is used in various Indian curries especially Tandoori recipes. We can also flavour this on place white rice for a lovely flavour and taste.
Rosewater adds excellent fragrance and flavor to make recipes, including rice, curries, and starters. We use this extremely well with rice and special deserts. RoseWater is also used for a lot of beverages. Women also use this on the face as a beauty product. Rosewater reduces redness and puffiness.
Organic Ajwain Seed or Indian Carom Seeds
Daawat Basmati Rice
One of the best extra long basmati rice we could get in UK is Daawat. After having tried various other brands we use this rice in all our recipes. Its recommended to use buy this as the older the rice get its gets better and hence go for this 20Kg rice bag.
Whole Wheat Flour – Traditional India Flour
All-Purpose Flour – Traditional Indian Maida
Gram Flour – Traditional Besan
Semolina Coarse – Bombay Rava or Sooji
Hara Masala
Hara Masala is used extensively in many recipes, from marination to cooking and finally for garnishing. The word Hara refers to Green, and Hence its called Hara Masala refers to green spices, which basically comprises of Fresh Coriander Leaves, Fresh green chilies, and fresh mint leaves. Sometimes Lemon and Lime add to the Hara Masala. The basic purpose is to add freshness to the recipe.
Fresh Coriander Leaves
Fresh Mint Leaves
