They are spices or herbs that are used to flavor foods. Some may also have some medicinal uses.
1. cinnamon 2. pepper 3. star anise 4. cloves 5. Fennel
Five-spice powder is a convenient seasoning in Chinese cuisine. It incorporates the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking - sweet, sour, bitter, savory, and salty.One five spice recipe is powdered:-# cinnamon, # star anise, # cassia, # ginger root, # and cloves. Another recipe for the powder consists of powdered:-# Sichuan pepper, # star anise, # cassia, # cloves, # and fennel.
Five spice powder, a ground combo of cinnamon, cloves, Szechuan pepper, fennel and star anise, is used in Chinese cuisine.
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Wonderful, exotic (then) spices: cinnamon, cardamon, star anise, cloves, sandalwood.
A seasoning used especially in Chinese cooking, consisting of ground cinnamon, cloves, star anise, fennel seed, and Szechuan peppercorns
5 spice comprises of following 5 spices fennel, cloves, and cinnamon, along with star anise and Szechuan peppercorns.
Most people are unaware that allspice has a few other names. It is also called Jamaica pepper, pepper, myrtle pepper, pimento, pimento, English pepper, and new spice. Allspice is the dried unripe berry of a small shrub called a Pimenta dioica or mid canopy tree.The shrubs are native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico and Central America, although it is now cultivated in many warm countries.It was named 'allspice' by the English in 1621, because they thought it tasted like a combination of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.
One common recipe includes tunghing or "Chinese cinnamon" (also known as rougui, the ground bark of the cassia tree, a close relative of true cinnamon), powdered cassia buds, powdered star anise and anise seed, ginger root, and ground cloves. (Copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-spice_powder - a very interesting article!)
A seasoning used especially in Chinese cooking, consisting of ground cinnamon, cloves, star anise, fennel seed, and Szechuan peppercorns
you can buy Jamaican curry powder. it is available in most supermarkets. located with ethnic and Mexican products. a good company is grace. contains tumeric,foenugreek, coriander, cumin, anise, star anise, pepper, pimento, cloves, and garlic
Fennel seed, or star anise, but you need to grind the star anise. You want something that tastes like licorice. The Star Anise is kind of expensive, it comes like 12 in a bottle, for six dollars; they look like stars. There are also liqueurs that taste like licorice, such as Pernod.