Recipes India - Cumin

Cumin
 
Being an efficient digestive food flavor for ceremonial feasting of the Biblical times, Cumin is the dried fruit of a small herbaceous plant.

It was used in ancient India and also in Roman Empire. Today, it is one of the popular spices used throughout the world.

Cumin is fried or roasted before usage. It also forms an essential part of the curry powder and of the Bengali spice mixture, panch phoron, apart from being used in Northern Indian tandoori dishes.

Indian cumin is used worldwide in foods, beverages, liquors, medicines, toiletries and perfumery. The basic requirements to grow this soil are rich, well- drained, sandy, loamy soil and the sun.
It grows abundantly in the mild, equable climate of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. India exports cumin to USA, Singapore, Japan, UK and North Africa.