Crossword clues for cardamom
cardamom
- Spice in Indian cuisine
- Rhizomatous herb of India having aromatic seeds used as seasoning
- Aromatic seeds used as seasoning like cinnamon and cloves especially in pickles and barbecue sauces
- Common spice in Indian food
- Plant with spicy or medicinal seeds
- A spice
- Spice: feature of Christmas morning, second to be consumed
- Drama changed into half comedy for produce some spice
- Medicinal herb
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cardamom \Car"da*mom\ (k[aum]r"d[.a]*m[u^]m), n. [L. cardamomun, Gr. karda`mwmon]
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The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine.
Syn: cardamon.
(Bot.) A rhizomatous herb which produces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria Cardamomum and several species of Amomum.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from French cardamome, from Latin cardamomum, from Greek kardamomon, from kardamon "cress" (which is of unknown origin) + amomon "spice plant." The word was in English from late 14c. in Latin form.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An Indian herb, ''Elettaria cardamomum'' 2 The aromatic seed of this plant, used as a spice, baking, also in curry powder in Asian and Arabic cuisine, as well as in Northern Europe and in many parts of the world and cultures.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Cardamom , sometimes Cardamon or Cardamum, is a spice made from the seeds of several plants in the genera Elettaria and Amomum in the family Zingiberaceae. Both genera are native to India (the largest producer until the late 20th century), Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indonesia and Nepal. They are recognised by their small seed pods, triangular in cross-section and spindle-shaped, with a thin, papery outer shell and small black seeds.
The German coffee planter Oscar Majus Kloeffer introduced Indian cardamom to cultivation in Guatemala before World War I; by 2000 that country had become the biggest producer and exporter of cardamom in the world, followed by India. Some other countries, such as Sri Lanka, have also begun to cultivate it. Elettaria pods are light green, while Amomum pods are larger and dark brown.
It is the world's third-most expensive spice, surpassed in price per weight only by vanilla and saffron.
Cardamom may refer to:
Usage examples of "cardamom".
Black cardamom has been variously classified as Zmgiber nigrum, Alpinia allughas, and, sometimes, Amomurn amarum.
She had given him fresh flatbread, cheese and a dish of eggs cooked with cinnamon, cumin, cardamom and fermented barley brine.
The next day, heavy-lidded and ill, Sula declined her breakfast and confined herself to sips of Tassay, a hot milky carbohydrate and protein beverage flavored with cardamom and cloves.
All of the other Zingiberaceae, including dried ginger, turmeric, galangal, and cardamom, are important only as medicine.
The autopsy also showed undigested fragments of cake, with cardamom, anise, and nuts, in the stomach.
It was a kolaicha, made with cardamom seed, just as if it were the Small Holiday itself that was being celebrated.
I remembered the three-cornered zambusi that are made to break the fast during the month of Ramadan and sweet tea with cardamom and milk.
They were grinding natag, a powdery snuff made of cardamom, cloves, tobacco, and the fine ash of burned juniper.
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Sacks were piled in the centre of the floor stuffed with cloves, coriander, cardamoms and cinnamon bark.
At each place there was a printed menu: Smoked whitefish on triangles of spoon bread with mustard broccoli coulis Black bean soup with conchiglie (pasta shells) Roast tenderloin of lamb in a crust of Pine nuts, mushrooms, and cardamom Pur‚e of Hubbard squash and leeks Pear chutney Crusty rolls Spinach and redleaf lettuce with ginger Vinaigrette and garnished with goat cheese Baked apples with peppercorn sauce Mildred said, "The menu is built around local products: lamb, whitefish, beans, squash, goat cheese, pears, and apples.
The Old World reaches down to draw him in: a couple of lascars, their flesh and breath suffused with saffron, asafœtida, and cardamom, lean over the rail, snare his cold pale hands in their warm black ones, and haul him in like a fish.
Forbidden from contacting their parents, having no wish to do so anyway and knowing of no other nearby source of spiciness, they started to make their own, ordering supplies of the rarer raw ingredients - chillis, coriander, cardamom, etc.
In the kitchens dill seed, fennel, pepper, star anise, and cardamom forgot their dried existence as spices.
And so, however much he fidgeted, he had to lead Abivard and Tanshar into the kitchens and do his best to make small talk while they drank wine and munched on pocket bread stuffed with grapes and onions and crumbly white cheese and chunks of mutton sprinkled with ground cardamom seeds.