Ground coriander

Cilantro is a very popular plant in many countries around the world. It gives us not only fresh green leaves, which are an excellent component for sauces, salads, soups, as well as a fragrant addition to meat and fish dishes, kebabs and kebabs, sandwiches. The seeds of this plant, which are called coriander, are also widely used. However, it is worth remembering that coriander has a rich specific taste, so you need to use it carefully.

Coriander seeds are used both in general and in hammered form. Ground coriander is used to flavour confectionery and bread (mainly Borodino), meat dishes, cheese, sausages, stew, savoy and red cabbage dishes, salted and pickled fish, milk soups, sauces, pastries. This spice is incredibly popular in Mexican cuisine.

In addition, ground coriander significantly improves the taste of lentils and beans, and is also necessarily part of the Turkish shish kebabys and Thuringian sausages known around the world. Ground coriander is the most important component in Indian spicy masal mixtures. In addition, it is often added to the Ethiopian mixture of Berbere and Tunisian offak. This spice is good in combination with chilli and garlic - this is how ground coriander is often used in the Caribbean islands.

In the East, ground coriander is present in various sweets - for example, sweets popular today in America were originally candied coriander seeds. This unusual treat, which combines sweetness and spicy burning, was widely sold in eastern bazaars some time ago.

In Cyprus and Greece, ground coriander is used in the preservation of olives. In addition, it is actively added to lamb-based dishes in large quantities, and they also make a simple but rather tasty aphelia dish with this aromatic spice, which is pork stewed in red wine. Probably, this food turns out to be so successful among the Greeks that even among the French, who do not particularly favor the coriander, all the dishes that are prepared with it are called "in Greek. "

Ground coriander, like the seeds themselves, is rich in essential oils, vitamins, fatty oils, tannins, nitrogenous compounds, starch, sugars and many other useful elements. Due to the presence of all these active substances, coriander is used in the pharmaceutical industry for the manufacture of galenic drugs that improve digestion, as well as for gastritis, duodenal ulcer and stomach ulcers.