Used primarily in South Asian, Middle Eastern cuisines, creating sweet or savory dishes.

Cuisine Specific

Pairs well with cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg in recipes, especially in baking.

Flavor Pairings

Often described as aromatic, sweet, and spicy, helping convey its unique taste.

Descriptive Adjectives

It's a tropical plant, requiring specific climate conditions found in places like India.

Tropical Origins

Being in the ginger family, cardamom has similar growth patterns and plant characteristics.

Ginger Family

The harvesting of cardamom is labor-intensive, often done by hand to protect delicate pods.

Harvesting Method

 I also saw what it's like when you take away the diesel fumes and the black smoke that spew from today's freighters and ports. Instead, our vessel smelled like fresh sea breeze and the bags of cardamom we carried and all that camomile tea I was chugging.

The Carbonless Fuel That...

 think of cows and bananas so he built this greenhouse here and it's absolutely incredible and in it he's growing these bananas and he's got spices he's got cinnamon and nutmeg cloves and cardamom I mean you walk in there and it's just I mean it's

Cardamom