Black cardamom

Cardamom is a perennial plant that is assigned by scientific classification to the Ginger family. Cardamom seeds are used in cooking like a spice. In addition, cardamom is known as an effective drug that has been used in Asian folk medicine since ancient times. Black cardamom is not at all a kind of well-known plant of the same name.

Black cardamom refers to shrubs and trees related to the usual cardamom, which grow in Central Africa, as well as Southeast Asia. The fruits of black cardamom are boxes of characteristic dark color, which can differ in different sizes. Black cardamom is considered one of the oldest Asian spices, which is quite rarely found in our latitudes.

Often in a cookbook you can find information that black cardamom can easily replace all of us with the usual spice. However, this statement is not one hundred percent true, since black cardamom differs in both taste and aroma, as well as in its consumer characteristics from ordinary cardamom.

Black cardamom is considered a traditional spice of the Indian national culinary tradition. As a rule, black cardamom is added to simple and uncomplicated dishes. Black cardamom boxes are remembered for their unusual scent, which combines the taste of camphor and smoke at the same time. It is worth noting that in order for the black cardamom to open the entire range of its taste and aroma, it takes quite a long time.

For this reason, the spice is best used in the preparation of dishes that undergo sufficiently long-term heat treatment. Often black cardamom is used in the process of preparing spicy mixtures. Black cardamom works perfectly with saffron as well as almonds. It is best to use black cardamom to prepare rice dishes, as well as as spice for sausages. Often black cardamom is added to various drinks, including alcoholic ones, for example liqueurs.

In China, black cardamom is added to tea, and in India, a fermented milk drink is prepared with spice. In Germany, black cardamom is considered an integral part of Easter cakes, as well as gingerbread with candied loebküchen. In addition, almost any oriental sweetness, namely those in the formulation of which the use of nuts is provided, will necessarily contain black cardamom.

Black cardamom emphasizes the taste of culinary products. Culinary pros argue that black cardamom works superbly with the taste of walnuts, as well as pears and plums. Such a spice as black cardamom will significantly improve the taste, as well as the aromatic characteristics of meat, as well as fish dishes. When preparing culinary products, you can use both black cardamom boxes as a whole and ground spice seeds.