---- * Caraway Seed is the fruit of a biennial herb in the parsley family, known as Carum carvi. The seed is about 1/5inch long and tapered at the ends. The hard seed shells have five pale ridges. * Geographical Sources, Holland, Germany, Russia, Morocco, parts of Scandinavia Canada, and the United States. * Traditional Ethnic Uses are in the flavoring for many kinds of rye bread. It is also used for flavouring sauerkraut, sausages, cheese, cabbage, and soups. * Caraway Seed has a pungent aroma and a distinctly sweet but tangy flavor ---- ----
* Cumin seed is the pale green seed of Cuminum cyminum, a small herb in the parsley family. The seed is uniformly elliptical and deeply furrowed. * Its Geographical Sources are Iran and India * Its Traditional Ethnic Uses are Mexican dishes such as chili con carne and hot tamales. * Taste and Aroma, They are also used by the dutch to flavour Leiden cheese. * Cumin has a distinctive, slightly bitter yet warm flavor. ----
Yes, cumin powder is made form cumin seed.
Cumin has a earthy and nutty taste to it. It can also taste a little spicy or peppery and has a pungent smell. It is used in Middle Eastern and European cuisine.
cumin is brownish in color and fennel is have traces of color green. Both are almost the same in smell, taste. But more spicier is cumin smell is cumin.
Cumin is different from fennel...they look the same at first glance, except that fennel seeds are greenish brown in colour and slightly bigger in size, they are sweeter in flavour. Whilst cumin is brown. Their flavours are completely different; also, the smell of ground cumin seeds is much stronger than that of ground fennel seeds.
Both aniseed & fennel have the same flavour & taste. Only difference is that the fennel seed is smaller, also called Vilaithi Sauf.
Anise
Fennel and anise both taste somewhat similar to black licorice. The difference between fennel and anise is that they are two separate different plants.
fennel and fenugreek.
A clear, flavored liqueur, whose flavor comes from cumin, carraway and fennel popular in Germany and Russia.
You can see images of both caraway seeds and cumin seeds by following the links below, although they do look very similar.
Fennel seeds do come from the fennel plant. The bulbs, foliage, and seeds of the fennel plant can be eaten.
its KUS-KUS not perumjeerakam correction . kasakasa(tamil),kus kus ,kaskas(malayalam),khus khus (hindi) cumin seed - jeerakam(malayaalam) fennel- permjeerakam (malayalam)
Somewhere between 1/8 to 1/4 of a teaspoon, depending on how strong the fennel seeds are.
Fennel is not a vegetable; it is a herb.
No, the spice cumin is the ground seed of the cumin plant.