Best Spice Blend of India
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The best spice mix of India is the classic Garam Masala. A gathering of spices easy to purchase at any local market and wonderful to add to any of your favorite dishes and serve to your family and friends. Garam Masala is a standard spice mix used at all the Palace Hotel India five star restaurants and at all the local restaurants. Garam Masala is known through out the world cuisine as being one of the most popular spice mixes due to the ingredients: ground cumin, ground coriander, ground cardamon, ground pepper, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.
Garam Masala means ‘Hot Spice’. This is not the same ‘hot’ as in a chille, but it does increase body temperature, pleasantly. It’s Indians equivalent of the French herbs ‘de Provence’ or the Chinese five spice mix. The spice mixture changes from region to region in Northern India. Each chef and or household add or take away a spice to make it their very own. They will even toast and grind all the spices bought from the local Farmers Markets rather than purchase a pre-made blend at a big grocery store. Garam Masala is, as a rule, added at the last step of cooking. Used like a fresh herb, so if cooked too long it will become bitter. It also needs to be added in small quantities to the meal you are preparing or otherwise it will over power the dish.
This warm hearted blend of spices is mainly used in Northern India and is used mostly for meat dishes; it also adds a wonderful tasted to vegetable as well. According to the India Ayurveda tradition it is a wonderful blend not only adds a myriad of flavors, but with it’s preventative and curative properties it will promote well-being and good health by allowing food to be digested more easily. The ‘heating’ of the body, as I mentioned above, raises the bodies metabolism with which not only promotes a better digestion, but it is also good at keeping people warm in the winter and much better to use than chillies which makes one perspire then cause one to get cold again.
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