Celtnet Guide to Spices Beginning with 'G'


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Welcome to the Celtnet Spice Guide. As this site has grown and many more recipes have been added it's become evident that a guide to the various herbs available to the cook is necessary. With spices becoming more commonly available and more exotic spices becoming available from all over the world it has become evident that some kind of guide or introduction to spices is necessary. These pages are an attempt at bringing all the various culinary spices together into one place so that you can see what's available and perhaps find something new to use in your own cooking. To use this Spice Guide simply click on the first letter of the herb name above or below. Alternativey why not just browse through the guide. All the spices given here, whether common or rare, can be obtained via your local supermarket (or more often via your local Asian supermarket) or via a specialist spice distributor.

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Spice Guide Entry For: Black Cumin

This is the description page for Black Cumin (Bunium persicum) and includes a description as well as an image, if available and a selection of recipes from this site that relates to the herb: Black Cumin.

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Black Cumin (also known as Kashmiri Cumin and Kala Jeera) represents the fruit (more typically called 'seeds') of the Bunium persicum which is a member of the Apiaceae (also known as Umbelliferae) family. It is therefore related to carrots, caraway and fennel. As a result Bunium persicum is also related to true Cumin Cuminum cyminum in that they belong to the same family though they are not closely related to one another. Thus, in strict botanical terms black cumin is not actuallly a cumin at all.

The plant itself is native to a wide region that extends from southeastern Europe to southern Asia. In its native regions it reaches about 60 cm tall and 25 cm wide, bearing frilly leaves and hermaphroditic flowers. Like it's closely-related cousin the Pignut (Conopodium majus) this plant's small, rounded taproot is edible either raw or cooked, and is said to taste rather like sweet chestnuts. The fruit are slender, dark brown in colour, and crescent shaped.

The spice itself consists of the dried fruit of the plant and it is used as a culinary spice in Northern India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Iran it is also used in certain Ethiopian spice blends. Black cumin is an essential ingredient in Persian cookery and can be substituted for cumin in many Northern Indian recipes (this yields a more authentic taste, as black cumin would originally have been used). Raw black cumin is earthy and rather heavy in aroma, not really very pleasant, but on cooking black cumin develops a warm, nutty and sligh bitter taste with a sweet aroma.


Recipes Utilizing Black Cumin

Lamb Rogan Josh
Sauce Sarcenes
Spicy Maharashtrian Rice
Balti Chicken Pasanda
Spicy Okra
Restaurant Tandoori Mariande
Mullet and Potato Tagine
Tibs Wet
Tuna Fish Biryani
Beef Pullao
Meten Shiro Flour
Wot Kimem
Alicha Kimem
Giant Ethiopian Bread




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