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Garam masala

Name: Garam masala recipe
Cuisine: /asian
Ingredients: 20.00 ml green cardamom seeds; 5cm cinnamon quill, broken into bits; 1 tsp whole cloves; 1 tsp black peppercorns; 1 tsp cumin seeds; 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg

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by delicious. team

delicious. team

Dec 13, 2024

"Meaning ‘hot spices’, garam masala has many regional variations, and every home has its family recipe. It is added towards the end of the cooking process. Packaged garam masala is a pale imitation of homemade blends. Many recipes call for black cumin or shah zeera, AKA royal cumin, which is often confused with nigella seeds. My recipe uses regular cumin to avoid this confusion. Some cooks dry-roast the spices separately before grinding, but I don’t." - Tony Tan

This recipe is an edited extract from Tony Tan’s Asian Cooking Class by Tony Tan, Murdoch Books, AU$59.99. Available now.

1 tbs green cardamom seeds
5cm cinnamon quill, broken into bits
1 tsp whole cloves
1 tsp black peppercorns
1 tsp cumin seeds
1/2 tsp grated nutmeg

Method

1.

Place all ingredients except nutmeg in a spice or coffee grinder and blitz for 30-40 seconds to a fine powder, then mix in the nutmeg. Store in an airtight container. I keep mine in the fridge.

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