ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
What do spices give us?
Spices, like everything else, are made
of chemicals. Spices give us health, colour and fragrance and most of all they keep
life from getting monotonous. Spices hide in them our traditions and culture.
let’s study about some spices which we
uses in our daily kitchen.
I am a small and skinny chap
Sometimes I am brown and
sometime black,
Added to hot oil and ghee
I spread my fragrance all around me,
When I am roasted.
Curd and jaljeera are favorite to me.
Think and tell me who am I?
Tell me quickly, who am I?- zeera
Cumin seeds are also known as jeera,
zeera, seeragam or comino. Cumin are oblong shaped, pale or usually dark brown
seeds in color. Indian recipes are greatly flavored with these cumin seeds. Cumin
seeds is the form of aromatic spice with the bitter taste and very warm flavor.
Cumin seeds can be used as whole, crushed or grounded one.
Uses:
Whole cumin seeds are mostly used for
tempering the various dals and jeera rice. Cumin seeds are widely used for
different preparations of gravies and curry recipes. The Salads and various
vegetarian recipes can be flavored with the tempering cumin seeds.
They are mostly
used for making butter milk (chas), lassi, soups and stews. Whole cumin seeds
are great to use along with the whole garam masala for bringing the natural
flavor in veg and non-veg dishes. Cumin seeds are highly used as whole, fried,
toasted, roasted or powdered. You can make delicious jeera rice by tempering
few cumin seeds in the butter.
THANKYOU,
NANDITHA.