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Alleppey Green Cardamom

Bold 8mm green cardamom pods with intense eucalyptus-citrus aroma.

₹480

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SKU
CH-ALLE-60A6
Net weight
50 g
Category
Whole Spices
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Cardamom is graded by pod size and colour, and the difference between grades is enormous both in price and in what you get. These are 8mm bold pods from the Idukki hills, still properly green rather than bleached or faded to straw.

Green means the pods were dried carefully at low temperature. Faded or yellowish cardamom has usually been dried too hot or stored too long, and the seeds inside will be pale brown rather than near-black and sticky. Ours are dark, oily and aromatic enough that the smell fills a room when the pack is opened.

Use the whole pod bruised in rice and biryani, or split it and use just the seeds for desserts and chai where you do not want the husk. Two or three pods is usually enough for a dish serving four; cardamom overwhelms very easily.
100% green cardamom pods (Elettaria cardamomum), 8mm bold grade.
Not bleached, not oil-treated.
8mm bold grade with dark, oily seeds inside.
Naturally green, never bleached with sulphur.
Intense eucalyptus and citrus aroma.
Whole pods keep their oils far longer than ground cardamom.
Biryani and pulao: two to three pods, lightly bruised.
Chai: one pod crushed per two cups.
Desserts: split the pod and grind only the seeds.
Store in an airtight tin; cardamom loses aroma quickly in open air.

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