Dried cloves

Bowl with aromatic dried cloves

Bunch of dried cloves spice on a wooden background

Carnation, dried clove spice in bowl on checkered napkin.

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Brand The Worldwide Mint Variety Cloves Item form dried Unit count 100 gram Specialty suitable_for_vegetarians

One of the things that people find intimidating about cooking Indian food is the vast array of spices used — both whole and ground, which are often combined into complex spice mixes. However, having taught classes on Indian food, I find that as soon as people are able to identify and understand the spices we use, then suddenly they find this cuisine is not as hard to make after all. Here are the 11 spices I reach for most often when cooking Indian food and how I use them!

Cloves

Cloves can help relieve digestive issues such as bloat, indigestion, and acid reflux because they help stimulate gastric acids that digest food.

Indonesia is most closely associated with the production of cloves. Clove trade originated in an island chain once known as the Spice Islands (now part of Indonesia). Cloves are a spice made from the flower buds of an evergreen tree called, surprise, the clove tree. Clove flower buds are harvested in their immature state and then dried. The name comes from the French word clou, which means nail since the shape of a dried clove resembles that of a nail. Cloves can be used whole or ground and…