Herbs & Spices

Fried black mustard seeds are used extensively as a garnish in Indian cooking, particularly in vegetable dishes

Caraway seed can be used whole or ground. It is widely used in Eastern european cooking, particularly in vegetable dishes and baking.

Use a 5 inch piece in meat, vegetable, fish or rice dishes. It can also be used to flavour rice pudding or other mil based dishes.

Cumin is an important ingredient in Indian and Middle Eastern cooking and is also used a s a topping for bread.

Its mild, aromatic, liquorice flavour enhances meat and fish dishes and it can be used whole or finely ground in vegetarian Indian dishes.

It is used in pasta sauces, Chinese and Thai stir-fry dishes and savoury Indian dishes.

It has a more intense flavour than the coarse ground pepper produced by a domestic pepper grinder.