To make our food more interesting we use spices not knowing that they have benefits attached to them. A lot of spices have medicinal value and were used and or are still used in the villages in the Asian countries and communities living abroad for the same purposes.Its the people living in the cities that don't want to use such things so often just because the older generation says its helpful they want justification scientifically proven that it works, and too they would only buy if it was in the form of tablet or syrup extract.
From the time I have been interested in cooking it has always intrigued me to know what each spice means and what its benefits are to the humans.To me God has created everything for a reason and so it only justifies that these spices also have a reason of being in this world. In my blog here I will be writing about one spice at a time gathering most information from the sources of people that I know from family and friends back home and the books that I have read for all these years on the spices.
My interest of reading books has helped me to discover a alot of hidden or not known so commonly benefits of each spice and think it'll be a good idea to share them with other people like me. It so happens that as a young girl I have always been in the kitchen looking up spices, smelling them tasting them and using the spices in my recipes most of the time not knowing what these were helping me with. I used them only because they tasted good or helped jazz the dish up. With time I have learnt a lot about them and by experimenting eating them raw sometimes even the worst tasting ones have helped me know how effective can they really be. I have seen those days when my grandmother used a stone grinder to grind her herbs and spices to make beautiful chutneys and mortar to grind her spices mix after roasting it on a chapati plate(tawwa). She told us that by roasting the spices it enhances the flavours of each spice but what she did not tell us was that it also adds much more smell to the dish than with out roasting, also the colour of the curry or dish being prepared. Here on this blog I would try and uncover the secret attached to the world of spices. Hopefully I will learn something new and so will you all who are going to read my findings out about all that goes into preparing a dish to make it healthy, tasty, colourful and appetizing...:)
