Your Spice Checklist for Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern Cooking Chef Aliye Aydin www.agoodcarrot.com Your Spice Checklist for Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern Cooking Chef Aliye Most people's spice cupboards are dusty, abandoned, and underused! Use this checklist to clean out and build your spice collection so that authentic and delicious Mediterranean and Middle-eastern cuisine is always at your ngertips. - Chef Aliye Your Spice Checklist for Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern Cooking Chef Aliye Earthy CUMIN is used in many cuisines around the world. Keep seeds and ground on hand for maximum avor and freshness. Purchase small quantities of OREGANO from a reputable supplier for maximum freshness. I prefer Turkish or Mexican oregano over Italian or Greek varieties. Available in many varieties, PAPRIKA is commonly used for color and avor. Try a sweet Hungarian paprika or smoky Spanish variety for something different. TURMERIC has incredible medicinal qualities and adds a terric earthy and savory avor to dishes. Diaspora Co. is one of my favorite brands. CORIANDER is the seeds of the cilantro plant and adds a sweet oral quality to dishes. Keep whole seeds and ground on hand. SUMAC is the ground berries of the sumac plant, and has an extremely tart avor. Use it in place of lemon, can be sprinkled on salads, with bread and olive oil, or over pasta. CINNAMON is often used in savory dishes in Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern cuisine. Use the same variety in both sweet and savory dishes. ALLSPICE is a spice commonly used in savory dishes in Middle eastern cuisine. Allspice comes from a tree, and is native to the West Indies and central America. TURKISH RED PEPPER, also called ALEPPO PEPPER, comes from the Halaby pepper. Dried and ground, its avor is fruity, slightly smoky, and a little spicy. Chef Aliye Aydin www.agoodcarrot.com Get free shipping on a 3-month Spice Club Membership and guarantee yourself easy delicious dinners! Click below and we’ll send your discount code right to your inbox! Get Free Shipping Created with Growth Tools in Partnership with Leadpages.