The Spices You Should Always Have In Your Kitchen

The Spices You Should Always Have In Your Kitchen
The Spices You Should Always Have In Your Kitchen

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Many spices have bactericidal action. Due to this, they are used as a medicine in folk medicine. The spices used in our country are divided into local and foreign. They differ from each other in the content of essential oils.

Local flavors

Parsley - the most used flavoring in Bulgarian cuisine. Its chemical composition is rich in vitamin C, potassium, calcium and iron.

Celery - used as an aromatic spice to improve the taste of the dish. Contains mineral salts and small amounts of vitamin C.

Red pepper - the red color is due to the carotene-like substance capsaicin. Rich in provitamin A and vitamin C.

Savory - savory leaves contain essential oil with a special aroma. Fresh leaves contain a large amount of vitamins C and P and provotamine A.

Foreign flavorings

Black pepper - is a dried unripe fruit of the tropical plant Piper nigrum.

White pepper - is a fully ripe, peeled and dried fruit of the plant Piper nigrum. Therefore, black and white pepper are flavorings obtained from the fruits of the same plant.

Allspice - dried unripe or ripe fruit of a tropical plant. Used in meat and fish dishes, sauces, ketchups, sausages.

Bay leaf - dried leaves of the noble laurel. It is added to the dishes 5-10 minutes before the end of the heat treatment, because prolonged cooking can give them a bitter taste.

Vanilla - the fruits of the vanilla tree are harvested unripe and dried after fermentation.

Cinnamon - obtained from the bark of the tropical cinnamon tree. Improves appetite, soothes stomach pain, has a hemostatic effect, has antibacterial and antiviral action.

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