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What are culinary herbs and spices?

posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 11:01 PM

IndiaOrganix is all about bringing the best spice ingredients and regional cooking cultures of the Indian subcontinent to the gourmets and magpie personalities of Brighton.

Our chefs use over 50 different types of imported herbs and spices to create the wet massala pastes, tikka marinades, and pach phoran mix's which form the basis of IndiaOrganix menus.

Spices are the buds, bark, roots, berries and aromatic seeds that are harvested for use in flavouring cooking.

Herbs are the fragrant leaves of plants. Even the tiny filaments of saffron are referred to as a spice. Saffron is the stigma which is hand plucked from a small mauve crocus native to Kashmir - hence its expense.

We use every part of a spice or herb plant. Typical examples of spices are cloves (buds), cinnamon (bark), turmeric (root), peppercorns (berries), vanilla (the bean from a tropical orchid vine) and cumin, coriander, dill and fennel (seeds).

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