Packaging: 10 g.
Large brown boxes of black cardamom of different types and sizes - from two to five centimeters. This is one of the oldest spices, however, it is not often found in Ukraine. In most cookbooks, black cardamom is described as a substitute for regular cardamom, but this is hardly true. For example, in India, this spice, called "Kali Eylachi", "Bali Eylachi" or "Bijilachi", has its own field of application - Indians prefer to add black cardamom to simple spicy traditional dishes, considering green cardamom to be a legacy of the high cuisine of the Great Mughals.
Use
Usually, boxes of black cardamom are sold whole. They have a rather pleasant aroma with a light shade of smoke and camphor. The field of application of black cardamom in cooking is very wide. Spices need time to fully reveal their aroma, therefore, as a rule, they are used in dishes with long-term heat treatment. Cardamom is especially popular in North Indian cuisine. Traditional spice mixtures are included in almost everything there, and in combination with almonds and saffron, they are always added to festive rice dishes. It is often used to flavor sausage products.
This spice is added to various drinks. For example, in France, cardamom is added to liqueurs, in India it is used to prepare a refreshing sour milk drink. The Chinese often add cardamom seeds to tea. Cardamom is often added to desserts and pastries. Germans cook with it Easter cakes and Lebküchen gingerbread with candied fruit, almonds and honey. Not a single oriental sweet is complete without this spice - baklava and other pastries, especially with walnut filling.
Together with cinnamon and star anise, cardamom goes well with jams made from walnuts, pears, quinces and plums. Cardamom is well suited for meat dishes. The warm, smoky aroma of black cardamom does not dominate the food, but rather reveals and enhances the taste of other products, so you can put it down without skimping. The combination of cardamom and nutmeg goes well with boiled fish of valuable breeds. Cardamom can be added whole boxes, or you can take out the black seeds and grind them or grind them finely.
Useful properties
Cardamom is recommended for asthma and migraines and as a means to increase appetite. Black cardamom has the ability to neutralize poisons and toxins, both coming from food and formed in the body. In addition, it has antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and anthelmintic properties.
Caution!
Black cardamom is contraindicated in ulcers. In large quantities, it is not recommended for pregnant women. It should not be used in case of individual intolerance.
Interesting facts
According to ancient chronicles, the "gentle" spice was a favorite of the Babylonian queen Semiramis and grew in her famous hanging gardens.
Medieval European apothecaries assured customers that there were no diseases that cardamom could not cure, and kept the recipes of medicines based on ego a secret, and the Chinese to this day call cardamom the spice that bestows wisdom.
Black cardamom, 10g. Yamuna, Ayurveda Here
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