Siri lankawa Spices - Parsley

Parsley is an herb while leaf, seed, and root are used to make medicine.In foods and beverages, parsley is widely used as a garnish, condiment, food, and flavoring.parsley seed oil is used as a fragrance in soaps, cosmetics, and perfumes.Parsley is mostly used in Middle Eastern, European, and American cooking. Curly leaf parsley is normally used as a garnish...

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Mustard - Siri lankawa Spices

It is almost always the firstly added ingredient to be used when preparing a curry. Mustard seeds ground and mixed with vinegar is the base for pickles.Mustard seeds have been highly demand culinary oil-seeds being in use since earlier times. The seeds are fruit pods obtained from mustard plant, but these days mustard cultivated as one of the main commercial crop in Canada, India, China, and temperate climates of European region...

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Saffron - Siri lankawa Spices

Saffron has a distinct floral flavor and fragnance and it also gives foods a bright yellow color. Saffron is one of the most expensive spices.It comes from the dried stamens of the crocus flower. A tiny amount of saffron is infused in hot milk for 10 minutes and added to rice dishes and desserts.The dried stigmas of saffron are used to make saffron spice.it is largely...

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Turmeric - Siri lankawa Spices

Sometimes turmeric is used more for its yellow color than its flavor, turmeric has a unique woodsy flavor. Turmeric, which is often confused with saffron, is used as a condiment in curries mainly for its colour. A little turmeric and salt are all that is necessary to preserving fish and meat.It is an aromatic powdered root of a plant mostly grown in the West Indies and India. It is used mainly for colouring and is also used as an antiseptic...

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Ginger - Siri lankawa Spices

Ginger is a flowering plant in the ginger root or simply ginger, is widely used as a spice or a medicine.The underground stem of ginger tree is used as a spice and also as a medicine. It can be used fresh, dried and powdered, or as a juice or oil.ginger is used as a flavoring...

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Nutmeg & Mace - Siri lankawa Spices

Nutmeg and mace are products from same plant. Nutmeg is the shelled, dried seed of the plant., and mace is the dried covering of the shell of the seed. both the nutmeg and mace are used to make medicine. nutmeg and mace are used as spices and flavoring...

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Cardamon - Siri lankawa Spices

Cardamom gives a very unique flavor to curries, for sauces, and to give fragrance to confectionery, specially wattalapam,and in various puddings.this is...

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Cloves - Siri lankawa Spices

People use the oils, dried flower buds, leaves, and stems of the clove to make medicine. this is used for upset stomach and as an expectorant.Clove oil is widely used for diarrhea, hernia, and bad breath. Clove and clove oil are used for problems such as intestinal gas,nausea, and vomiting.mainly cloves are used in problems related with mouth especially with teeth. cloves are used in following problems Better...

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Pepper - Siri lankawa Spices

Pepper is largely produces as black pepper which is the dried . White pepper is produced by removing outer cover. pepper is available in crushed and ground forms. little amount of green and ripened pepper is pickled in brine and dehydrated green pepper and preserved red pepper also traded. Pepper oil and oleo resins are also extracted marketed as value added products.Pepper is mainly used as a spice and flavoring...

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Garlic - Siri lankawa Spices

Garlic is best known as a flavoring for food. garlic has been used as a medicine to prevent or treat a wide range of diseases and conditions.  Garlic is used for large amount of conditions related to the heart and blood system. These conditions include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, coronary heart disease,heart attack, and hardening of the arteries. Garlic actually may be effective in reducing blood pressure. Garlic...

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Cinnamon(kurundu) - Siri lankawa Spices

Cinnamon is a small tropical evergreen tree which grows 10–15 meters tall, The two main types of cinnamon are cinnamon cassia and cinnamon zeylanicum which is grown widely in Sri Lanka, India, Java, Sumatra, the West Indies, Brazil, Vietnam and Madagascar. Its...

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Curry Leaves (Karapincha)done - Siri lankawa Spices

Curry tree is native to Asia and  it is very fragrant. in order to obtain the  maximum flavour the leaves should be added at the final stage of cooking a curry.Curry leaves are generally used fresh in most rice and curry dishes, giving a very distinctive flavor.  the leaves are known as 'curry leaves,' in general although they are also literally 'sweet neem leaves' in most India.Height of the curry plant ranges from small...

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Garcinia (Goraka) - Siri lankawa Spices

Garcinia normally ground with a little hot water, is used as a souring and thickening agent in curries such as fish and meat and certain vegetable currie...

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Fennel seeds (Maduru) - Siri lankawa Spices

Fennel seeds are lightly sweet in taste and licorice flavored. It's great with meat dishes, or even chewed on its own as a breath freshener and digestion aid. Used in the preparation of some dishes.fennel seeds are used in the preparation of curry powder along with coriander and cumin,Fennel plant have yellow flowers.Dried fennel seeds are normally used in cooking as an anise-flavored spice.Fennel seeds and oil are used to...

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cumin seeds(suduru) - Siri lankawa Spices

Cumin seeds have a strong fragrance and a very distinct flavor, flavour and can be used whole or ground. together with coriander it is one of the most important ingredients in preparing curry powde...

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Fenugreek(uluhal) - Siri lankawa Spices

Although Fenugreek smells like maple syrup while cooking, actually it has a rather bitter, burnt sugar flavor.this can be found in a lot of Indian and Middle Eastern dishes.this is used to flavor and give the necessary taste or the thickening effect to curries. Fenugreek seeds are  rectangular in shape and matt golden brown in colour.  soaking seeds in water for long time may distroyes the officinal properties.fenugreek ...

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Spices used in Ayurveda in Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan spices and herbs plays an important role in Ayurvedic medicine. Ayurveda or the Study of  Life is an old type of medicine where much accent is placed on food habits, also it accent the importance of  natural stuff like herbs and ointments.and also Ayurvedic method can be defined as the system of medicine practiced by the ancient people, utilizing very unique and natural remedies to...

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Benefits of spices

Spices contain an impressive list of plant-derived chemical compounds that contains disease preventing and health promoting properties.They have been in use since ancient times for their healthy properties such as anti-inflammatory, carminative, anti-flatulent..  The components in the spices have been found to have anti-clotting action (prevent clotting of blood)and also help in easing blood flow, preventing stroke and coronary artery...

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List of spices that grown in sri lanka

Fenugreek Cumin seeds Fennel-seeds (Maduru) Garcinia(Goraka) Curry Leaves (Karapincha) Garlic Cinnamon Pepper Cloves Cardamon Nutmeg & Mace Ginger Turmeric Parsley Saffron Mustard ...

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The history of sri lankan spices

The History of Sri Lanka and the History of Spice are interconnected to a large extent that it leaves one to wonder whether Sri Lanka was discovered because of spice, or whether Spice was discovered because of Sri Lanka. Whatever the answer, historians generally agree that Sri Lanka is the born place of the ancient spice trade. and if we consider cinnamon, which originated in Sri Lanka, it is certainly the main cradle. John Keay the...

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