tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36735871247564592082011-10-25T09:25:41.075-07:00Cardamom NationA blog that centers around the world of cardamom, including news, articles, recipes, and all of the wonderful history behind the Queen of spices.Jaime Merithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15662144144662951686noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3673587124756459208.post-89239998400418727792011-10-24T10:48:00.000-07:002011-10-24T10:49:21.968-07:002011-10-24T10:49:21.968-07:00Cardamom Chocolate Truffles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://0.gvt0.com/vi/way2NXrv2yQ/0.jpg" height="266" style="clear: left; float: left;" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/way2NXrv2yQ&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/way2NXrv2yQ&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">INGREDIENTS</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;">2 lbs bittersweet chocolate</div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;">2 cups of heavy cream</div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;">10 cardamom pods</div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>For Coating</b></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Coconut flakes</div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Toasted Almonds </div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Cocoa Powder</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3673587124756459208-8923999840041872779?l=cardamonation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jaime Merithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15662144144662951686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3673587124756459208.post-73222111252458970172011-10-21T12:00:00.000-07:002011-10-21T15:08:10.794-07:002011-10-21T15:08:10.794-07:00All you Need to Know About Cardamom Grades<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #606060;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There are different classifications for Cardamom, which determine the size, color and liter weight of the pod. many US spice importers </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">lean towards the biggest pods, which they say carry the most </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">flavor and fragrance, although this is not entirely true, many customers think otherwise and</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> prefer the smallest pods arguing the same case. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When we talk about Green Cardamom, we can classify them in three Grades: </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A very special variety. All capsules will be matured greenish </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">having above 8 mm diameter size. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lt. Wt. will be more than 450 gm</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Fancy or Bold:</span></u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A Popular export grade; 90% and above capsules will be having 6.5mm and above diameter, matured and Greenish color.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lt. Wt. will be 415 gms. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Select or Small:</span></u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Cardamom having size between 5.5 mm and 6.5 mm. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Cleaned and removed dust. husk and black capsules.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lt. Wt. will be around 385 gms.</span></span></div></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Qj4j7m42y9Q/TqG1RObmYiI/AAAAAAAAABA/uF-Zfb9qpY8/s1600/SELECT+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="99" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Qj4j7m42y9Q/TqG1RObmYiI/AAAAAAAAABA/uF-Zfb9qpY8/s320/SELECT+2.jpg" width="320" /></span></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There's also the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">seeds</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, which we call:</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Decorticated</span></u></b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">:</span></u></span><br />
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<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Black / Brown colour seeds are the original content in every Cardamom capsule.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The husks were fully removed.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lt. Wt may be around 550 gm to 600 gm.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Indian cardamom</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> is offered to the international markets in five different grades: </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Alleppey Green Extra Bold' (AGEB)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Size 7mm above wt/lt 435 gms. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Size 6mm above wt/lt 415gms </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Alleppey Green Superior' (AGS)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Size 5mm above wt/lt 385 gms </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">AGS‐1 Alleppey Green Shipment Green</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">‐1</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Size 4mm above wt/lt 350gms </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">AGS‐2 Alleppey Green Shipment Green‐2</span></span><br />
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<tr><td valign="TOP" width="14%"><span style="font-family: arial;">Grade designation</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">Trade Name</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">Colour</span></td><td valign="TOP" width="20%"><span style="font-family: arial;">Empty and malformed capsules percentage by count (max.)</span></td><td valign="TOP" width="18%"><span style="font-family: arial;">Immature and shrivelled capsules percentage by weight (max.)</span></td><td valign="TOP" width="17%"><span style="font-family: arial;">Blacks and splits percent by count (max.)</span></td><td valign="TOP" width="16%"><span style="font-family: arial;">Size (diameter of the hole in mm) of the sieve on which retained***</span></td><td valign="TOP" width="15%"><span style="font-family: arial;">Weight in G/L (min.)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.samexagency.com/cardam.html#AGEB">AGEB</a></span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cardamom Extra Bold</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">Deep Green, or Light green</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">2.0</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">2.0</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">0.0</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">7.0</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">435</span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.samexagency.com/cardam.html#AGB">AGB</a></span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cardamom Bold</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">-Do-</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">2.0</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">2.0</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">0.0</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">6.0</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">415</span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.samexagency.com/cardam.html#AGS">AGS</a></span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cardamom Superior</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">-Do-</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">3.0</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">5.0</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">0.0</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">5.0</span></td><td valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: arial;">385 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffffd7; font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><br />
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</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3673587124756459208-7322211125245897017?l=cardamonation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jaime Merithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15662144144662951686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3673587124756459208.post-26163465184520738132011-10-19T11:30:00.000-07:002011-10-19T11:30:57.404-07:002011-10-19T11:30:57.404-07:00Cardamom Cookies Anyone?Here's a cool video from our friends at WTF about Cardamom and its uses, plus a great recipe for Cardamom Cookies that you will certainly love.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/8Lj7An78bh0/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8Lj7An78bh0&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8Lj7An78bh0&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3673587124756459208-2616346518452073813?l=cardamonation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jaime Merithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15662144144662951686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3673587124756459208.post-3028879169071736402011-10-17T11:23:00.000-07:002011-10-17T11:26:46.752-07:002011-10-17T11:26:46.752-07:00Spice up your Cocktails with Cardamom.<div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My first introduction to gin with that touch of cardamom was at the </span><a href="http://www.tribecagrand.com/" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #0095a1; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tribeca Grand Lounge</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. Their Gin and Sin is a misnomer of a cocktail because there is no sin when there's gin.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here is a close approximation to the Tribeca's Gin and Sin:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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Read more: <a href="http://blogcritics.org/tastes/article/from-cardigans-to-cardamom-its-cardamom/page-2/#ixzz1b4Xw2B7w" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #003399; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">http://blogcritics.org/tastes/article/from-cardigans-to-cardamom-its-cardamom/page-2/#ixzz1b4Xw2B7w</a><br />
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</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3673587124756459208-302887916907173640?l=cardamonation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jaime Merithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15662144144662951686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3673587124756459208.post-10395268681065387932011-10-14T11:39:00.000-07:002011-10-14T22:40:27.752-07:002011-10-14T22:40:27.752-07:00Cardamom Spices Up American MenusRead this interesting article about the influence of cardamom in North American cousine,<br />
courtesy of Restaurant Nation News.<a href="http://www.nrn.com/"> www.nrn.com</a><br />
<div id="op-content" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div class="article-body-content body-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 20px;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">When chef Akhtar Nawab was developing his new restaurant in Manhattan, he wanted to call it Ela, after an Indian word for the cardamom plant, as a reference to the Indian heritage of both the American-born chef and the prized South Asian spice. But the name was already taken, so they changed it to Elettaria—cardamom in Latin.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">Not surprisingly, at Nawab’s restaurant the spice is all over the menu. He coats sweet-breads with cardamom-scented flour before sautéing them in butter and serving them with pineapple chunks poached in cardamom- and vanilla-scented juice. He makes a cardamom rasmalai, a kind of fresh cheese poached in reduced, sweetened, cardamom-scented milk. His bartender has even concocted a cocktail, the “8th Wonder,” with cardamom-infused bourbon, lemon juice, sweet vermouth and soda.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">It seems Nawab’s not the only chef intrigued by the spice, which is appearing on menus nationwide.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">At Baltimore’s Wine Market, for example, a cheese plate features quince paste and cardamom-spiced almonds. Leila’s in Oak Park, Calif., stirs the spice into the mashed potatoes, which are served with pan-roasted duck breast, and New York’s Pure Food offers green tea-cardamom-pistachio ice cream.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">The spice may be native to southern India, but the world’s largest exporter of cardamom is now Guatemala. The United States imports almost all of its cardamom from Central America.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">Cardamom is nearly ubiquitous in South Asian cooking.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">“We put it into meat stews, into rice pilafs,” says Avtar Walia, owner of Tamarind, an upscale Indian restaurant in New York.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">A little of the ground spice is even sprinkled on a mango lassi, a chilled yogurt drink.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">Cardamom is one of the classic ingredients in the sweet and spicy tea called chai masala in India. As chai has proliferated at upscale fast-food chain restaurants like <a href="http://www.panerabread.com/" style="color: #0066cc; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Panera Bread</a> and <a href="http://www.starbucks.com/" style="color: #0066cc; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Starbucks</a>, many Americans are consuming the spice without even knowing it. Starbucks’ chai lists cardamom as the first seasoning on a list that also includes cinnamon, ginger, star anise and black pepper.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">Coffee also is combined often with cardamom, especially in the Middle East. There, roasted coffee beans are typically ground with a modest quantity of the spice to make so-called Turkish coffee. In parts of the Arabian Peninsula, a beverage is made by steeping ground unroasted coffee with an equal amount of crushed cardamom. As in India, the seasoning is an integral component in regional spice mixtures, such as Morocco’s ras el hanout.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">The most common version of the spice is green cardamom, <i>Elettaria cardamomum</i>, sold in the form of pale green or bleached white pods, or as the black seeds of those pods. But there is also the unrelated black cardamom, <i>Amomum subulatum</i>, from North India, with its distinctive smoky, even resinous aroma.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">“The flavor profile is a little bit more earthy and toasty,” says Adam Kreisel, chef at Acme Burger in Salt Lake City.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">Compared with green cardamom, he says, it is “a little bit less green, fruity and piney, a little bit more peppery.” He puts almost a half teaspoon of black cardamom into each of his six-ounce lamb burgers at Acme Burger.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">“It sells fabulously,” Kreisel says.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">In fact, the lamb burger is typically the best-selling item after the beef burger.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">While cardamom is one of the most expensive spices on the market, typically four times as pricey as black pepper, black cardamom is considerably cheaper.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">Yet even while American chefs use more cardamom and other exotic seasonings, they use them differently than cooks brought up on more traditionally spicy cuisines. While Indians and Moroccans usually blend six or more spices together, cooks here tend to focus on a particular flavor.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">“I rarely combine more than two or three spices together,” says chef <a href="http://www.danielnyc.com/" style="color: #0066cc; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Daniel</a> Bruce of Meritage restaurant in Boston.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">He flavors tuna with a mixture of anise, cardamom and brown sugar, and seasons squab with a combination of cardamom and cumin. He also sprinkles cardamom on flat breads and skillet breads. Bruce also stirs it into an Italian-inflected dish of cardamom and butternut squash gnocchi and shredded duck confit.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">At Charlie Trotter’s in Chicago, cardamom is paired with Mexican influences in an entrée of venison with black cardamom mole.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">“We love it for its smokiness and depth of flavor,” says Matthias Merges, executive chef at Charlie Trotter’s.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">In St. Louis, chef Claus Schmitz even uses black cardamom in barbecue. He has imported the classic Arabic flavor combination of coffee and cardamom to Mosaic restaurant in his cardamom and espresso smoked ribs.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">“We’re selling a lot of them, let me tell you,” he says.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">Schmitz adds that he favors cardamom for its ability to smooth out other flavors. He also likes it in desserts like cardamom crème brûlée, which he says tastes almost like vanilla.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, American spice consumption has increased by some 50 percent over the past decade. Cardamom import figures suggest that the use of that spice has risen even faster, more than doubling over the same period.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">Daniel Bruce attributes the change to the <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/" style="color: #0066cc; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Food Network</a> and creative chefs. Others point to changing immigration patterns that have led to a proliferation of South Asian and Middle Eastern restaurants. Certainly, foreign travel has exposed many more to exotic flavors.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">Tamarind’s Walia, for one, thinks the taste for the traditionally Indian spice is increasing is because Americans are visiting India more.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1.3em; margin-top: 0px;">“In India, everywhere you go you see Americans, traveling and investing in India,” he says. “India is very hot.”</div></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br />
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Supported by the local government the Cardamom Growers Cooperative currently has 50 hectares planted and producing. for 2010 is budgeted to grow to 136 hectares in the first quarter of the year and for the second quarter, the implementation of a more ambitious project which houses 250 families on 500 hectares dedicated to growing native trees for cardamom with gloomy, delivery of land for cardamom production, protection and care of watersheds and micro watersheds, rehabilitation and equipping of schools, training for female heads of household in microenterprise training and establishment of mobile health units.</div><div style="color: #575757; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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<strong>PROYECTO DE CARDAMOMO</strong></div><div style="color: #575757; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">LOCACION: ANTIOQUIA , COLOMBIA.</div><div style="color: #575757; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Apoyados por el gobierno local la Cooperativa de cultivadores de Cardamomo cuenta actualmente con 50 Hectareas sembradas y produciendo. para el 2010 esta presupuestado crecer a 136 Hectareas en el primer trimestre del ano y para el segundo trimestre la implementacion de un proyecto mas ambicioso que cobija a 250 familias en 500 hectareas dedicadas al cultivo del cardamomo con arboles nativos para sombrio, entrega de tierras para usufructo, proteccion y cuidado de cuencas y micro cuencas hidrograficas, restauracion y equipamiento de Escuelas, capacitacion para madres cabeza de familia en formacion de microempresas y establecimiento de unidades moviles de Salud.<br />
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So, anytime you are walking down 37th ave in Jackson Heights, stop by my friend Rashi and get yourself some delicious cardamom ice pops.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">125 grms of butter </span></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2 eggs</span></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1 tsp vanilla extract</span></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">125 grms self icing flour</span></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1 tsp of cardamom</span></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2 tsp cream</span></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2 Mangoes </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1/4 milk</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">6 tsp of Yogurt</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sugar ( to your taste)</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Seeds of 1 Green cardamom Pod.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3673587124756459208-8580040455613379383?l=cardamonation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jaime Merithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15662144144662951686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3673587124756459208.post-90752995391024434372011-10-07T09:55:00.000-07:002011-10-07T09:58:12.283-07:002011-10-07T09:58:12.283-07:00Ginger Cardamom Chai<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1 Cup of water</span></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1 tea spoon of grated Ginger</span></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1/2 Cup of milk</span></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> 2 Tsp of Tea Leaves </span></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1/2 Tsp of Ground Cardamom </span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3673587124756459208-9075299539102443437?l=cardamonation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jaime Merithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15662144144662951686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3673587124756459208.post-63871567801859914022011-10-06T12:08:00.000-07:002011-10-07T10:25:42.703-07:002011-10-07T10:25:42.703-07:00Colombian Cardamom GrowersThis a project that started about eight years ago when a lot of the coffee growers in our region were facing a decline in prices mixed with market uncertainty. Alonso Munera along with farmers from the town of valparaiso joined forces to form a cooperative to start growing cardamom.<br />
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3673587124756459208-6387156780185991402?l=cardamonation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jaime Merithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15662144144662951686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3673587124756459208.post-15819980607231351132011-10-06T11:27:00.000-07:002011-10-06T11:47:04.364-07:002011-10-06T11:47:04.364-07:00Welcome to Cardamom Nation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>This is not just a blog about cardamom recipes, this is a place dedicated to showcase the benefits, uses and history of this millenary spice and how it has spread around the globe through the centuries. we are also going to pay close attention to a cardamom farmers project that started in Colombia about eight years ago, by my grandfather Alonso in the region of Antioquia.<br />
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I hope you will find this blog interesting, please feel free to comment or share your experiences as a cardamom lover, producer, distributor. this is the place to be if you are a cardamom fan.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3673587124756459208-1581998060723135113?l=cardamonation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jaime Merithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15662144144662951686noreply@blogger.com0