Herbs
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Herbs and spices are products from plants that add unique taste, smell, texture or other desired quality to food.
Glossary of herbs and spices[edit | edit source]
Use these herbs and spices to season your food instead of salt.
- Garlic Powder meats, poultry, fish, vegetables, salads, soups, and stews.
- Ginger Used in soups, salads, vegetables, and meats.
- Nutmeg Used in vegetables and meats.
- Onion Powder Also called green onion, Used in meats, poultry, seafood, soups, and salads.
- Paprika Used in meats, fish, poultry, and vegetables.
- Parsley Used in salads, vegetables, fish, and meats.
- Rosemary Used in salads, vegetables, fish, and meats.
- Thyme Used in salads, vegetables, fish, and poultry.
- Annatto Seeds Used in vegetables, meats, poultry, and rice.
- Cayenne Pepper Used in meats, poultry, stews, and sauces.
- Celery Seed Used in fish, salads, dressings, and vegetables.
- Chili Powder Used in meats, poultry, vegetable, fish and stews.
- Cinnamon Used in salads, vegetables, breads, and snacks.
- Clove Used in soups, salads, and vegetables.
- Curry Powder Used in meats, shellfish, and vegetables.
- Dill Seed Used in fish, soups, salads, and vegetables.
Unsorted list of culinary herbs and spices[edit | edit source]
- Ajwain, carom seeds - (Trachyspermum ammi) - (Pakistan, South Asia, India, Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt, Eritrea & Ethiopia)
- Akudjura - (Solanum centrale) - (Australia)
- Alkanet - (Alkanna tinctoria), for red color
- Alligator pepper, mbongo spice - (mbongochobi), hepper pepper - (Aframomum danielli, A. citratum, A. exscapum) - (West Africa)
- Aniseed myrtle - (Syzygium anisatum) - (Australia)
- Annatto - (Bixa orellana)
- Avens - (Geum urbanum)
- Boldo - (Peumus boldus)
- Caraway - (Carum carvi)
- Catnip - (Nepeta cataria)
- Cudweed - (Gnaphalium spp.) - (Vietnam)
- Cumin - (Cuminum cyminum)
- Garlic - (Allium sativum)
- Jakhya - (Cleome Viscose)
- Jimbu - (Allium hypsistum) - (Nepal)
- Kala zeera - (or kala jira), black cumin - (Bunium persicum) - (South Asia)
- Koseret leaves - (Lippia abyssinica) - (Ethiopia)
- Lesser calamint - (Calamintha nepeta), nipitella, nepitella - (Italy)
- Mint - (Mentha spp.), 25 species, hundreds of varieties
- Mountain horopito - (Pseudowintera colorata), 'pepper-plant' - (New Zealand)
- New Mexico chile - (Capsicum annuum 'New Mexico Group', also known as Hatch or Anaheim) which includes Big Jim, Chimayó, and Sandia, and other pepper cultivars.
- Olida - (Eucalyptus olida) - (Australia)
- Paracress - (Acmella oleracea) - (Brazil)
- Quassia - (Quassia amara), bitter spice in aperitifs and some beers and fortified wines
- Red rice powder - (Monascus purpureus) - (China)
- Rue - (Ruta graveolens)
- Safflower - (Carthamus tinctorius), only for yellow color
- Salep - (Orchis mascula)
- Sesame Seed, Black Sesame Seed
- Sorrel - (Rumex acetosa)
- Sumac - (Rhus coriaria)
- Thyme - (Thymus vulgaris)
- Voatsiperifery - (Piper borbonense) Madagascar
- Yerba buena, any of four different species, many unrelated
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