Spices

All you need to know Understanding spices, flavors, from which are obtained and their role in foods.


Chili
Another name it may be known: cayenne pepper
• Obtained From: different types of chili peppers
• Found: dry (whole or ground), powdered chilies or oil
• Taste / flavor: spicy
• Can be used: the dishes with meat and vegetables

Curry
• Obtained From: mixture of several spices such as pepper, green pepper, chili, ginger, coriander and cloves
• The find-powdered
• Taste / flavor: spicy-spicy
• Can be used: to Asian cuisine, mainly the types of food in India, from rice to fish, dishes with poultry, the meat dishes

Ginger
It found fresh, dry ground or food as Taste / flavor: spicy-sweetish • Can be used: in Asian cooking, the cakes and sweets • Note: nowadays ginger can be purchased in many places. It is better to buy ginger in small quantities because it withers very quickly.

Garlic
Found: fresh, powdered or in formate oil • Taste / flavor: sharp, hot • can be used: in salads, soups, sauces, dishes of meat and vegetables

Pepper
Another name: bell peppers • Prepare: the chili pepper or red pepper • Found: dried whole or ground • Taste / flavor: spicy, from the mild to the strong aroma • Can be used: the sauces, the fried foods, the dishes based on potatoes and rice, the fish and vegetable dishes, the bacon, the cheeses

Pepper
Pepper seed sky • Found: the dry form, whole or ground (black or white pepper) or preserved raw (green pepper) • Taste / flavor: spicy, hot burner (black pepper), mild (white pepper) • can be used: the dishes with meat and various kinds of fish, chicken, the vegetables

Turmeric
Obtained From: orange stigma of the saffron garden • Taste / flavor: aromatic, slightly bitter • Can be used: the fish dishes, rice, lamb meat, the cakes • Note: saffron is very expensive spice giving a special color not only cookies but also soups or sauces

Vanilla
The product is in capsules of a cruel kind of orchid-liana • Found: All • Taste / flavor: sweet • Can be used: the inghetalc, cakes, sweets • Note: sugar and milk aroma that quickly lend

Caraway
Found: dry form of tiny seeds, or ground tntregl • Taste / flavor: spicy, biting • Can be used to: different varieties of bread to pastries sl based dough, the dishes with fish or meat, cabbage, the cheeses, the cheeses, dishes based on potatoes

Bay leaf
Laurel found the dry form, whole or pieces, or powder form, taste / flavor: spicy • Can be used in soups, sauces, dishes based on fish, in brine, the pickled cucumbers.

Nutmeg
Seed nuts product that looks very much like apricot
Found: whole or ground • Taste / flavor: spicy • Can be used: from pastries, to soups, to sauces and dishes of meat bazl

Clove
Of dried buds of the clove tree peony flower • They are: whole, ground or powdered. • Taste / flavor: spicy-spicy
Can be used: the cakes, sweets, jams, compotes, sauces, the dishes of meat as the fish dishes

Cinnamon
Brown bark of cinnamon, SAE found whole or ground.
Bitter tastes sweet and can be used to cakes, sweets or sauces

Basil
Taste / flavor: sweet, peppery, spicy peppers can be used: the salad (tomato, bean paste), the sauces, the dishes to cool, the fish dishes or chicken-Note. during boiling flavor becomes stronger, using a dry flavor but it will lose strength

Sheets of pepper
Another name it may be known: piparus Taste / flavor: slightly spicy can be used: the salads (the beans, cucumber, tomato), the bean dishes, the lamb Note: during boiling aroma increases in strength . It is recommended that leaves be not scattered cl be cut into strips.

Dill
Taste / flavor: delicate, slightly sour can be used: fresh or pickled in castraveciorii, the salads, the preparations of the poor, the meat and fish dishes, potatoes Note: i can also use inflorescence. Its leaves retain their flavor frozen, dried long as they lose the strength.

Tarragon
Taste / flavor: slightly spicy special • Can be used: in sauces, salads, the preparations of crayfish, the fish and meat dishes, as added ingredients for salad in vinegar and cream-based sauces. • Note: frozen form is especially strong flavor, add in small amounts.

Lovage
Taste / flavor: similar to those of Maggi seasonings can be used: to soups or broths, the food cooked, the sauces or dishes based on meat NOTE: Because of the intense flavor of its leaves, is used in small quantities. Both in soups or broths and foods cooked in, cook with them.

Parsley
Taste / flavor: spicy sour • Can be used: in soups and broths, to steaks and game dishes • Note: Always use fresh parsley garnish with the food surface when it is ready

Rosemary
Taste the flavor: spicy, sour, bitter • Can be used: meat products, especially those of mutton, the Italian food in the poultry meat to vegetable dishes. potatoes and fish, and the composition of sauces.

Sage
Another name that is known as: mourning
• Taste / flavor: very spicy, slightly bitter
• Can be used: the meat and fish dishes, the dishes with pastry, the soups, the sauces
• Note: Boil sage leaves with food, is recommended not to put many, because of their strong flavor.

Chive
Taste / flavor: vigorous as fresh onion • Can be used: the salads, the foods prepared with eggs and cheese, other foods from potatoes and meat, sauces, soups and broths. • Note: only use fresh chives because during boiling it loses flavor and the most important vitamins.

Lemongrass

Another name that is known as: lamaioara Taste / flavor: spicy can be used: to hunt, fish and other meat dishes, the dishes of potatoes and other foods cooked in sheep and goat's cheese and spices in the preparation of vinegar Note: it is preferable that this spice with food to be cooked, but only in small proportions.

Melisa
Another name that is known as: melissa • Taste / flavor: lemon • Can be used: in salads, on tomatoes, the fish and meat dishes to sweets. • Note: melissa not cook with food. It is often preferred for its flavor more like that of lemon but also because decorative appearance.

Peppermint
Taste / flavor: fresh, tender may be used: in salads, sweets, in sauces and meat-based food composition Note: mint leaves have a special appearance, impressing and that ornament the surface of ice cream, desserts or glasses with beverages as well and can be consumed.

Oregano
Another name it may be known: maiorana wild heather • Taste / flavor: spicy, peppery • Can be used: the Italian cuisine (pizza, me-stron), in part sauces, the salads, the soups, the meat dishes . • Note: cook with food, heavier dishes can be more easily digested if they are seasoned with oregano.