Is Black Pepper Spice Or herb? Any Guesses? Black Pepper is a spice as it's fruit of the plant. Herbs generally comes from the leaves like basil, thyme, rosemary etc however there are exceptions. So Black Pepper is a spice. You would be surprised to know all 4 kind of pepper comes from one seed. First the seed is green in color later it becomes red so the red color, then once … [Read more...]
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Green Cardamom Pods, Benefits of Green Cardamom Pods
Green cardamom pods always reminds me of hot cardamom tea. There are mainly 3 types of cardamom green cardamom, brown cardamom and black cardamom. Green Cardamom is the queen of spice and third most most expensive spice in the world. I have started a series for all Indian spices wherein I will post all spices also share their benefits, characteristics and the recipes in which … [Read more...]