Cumin Seeds

Cumin seeds are well known as Jeera. Cumin Seeds are used to add spicy taste to many dishes worldwide. Cumin is a crucial ingredient in several world cuisines. Cumin has a unique and potent flavor crucial to Indian curries, where cumin is often roasted before grinding to impart a toasted, nutty flavor. The aromatic, somewhat bitter, taste is essential to good chili. Virtually all Mexican meat or bean dishes contain a generous amount of cumin (called “comino” in Mexican recipes) as do foods from many other Latin American countries. Swiss and Dutch countries use cumin seed to flavor certain cheeses, while various European countries flavor breads with cumin.Cumin; sometimes spelled cumin; Cuminum cyminum is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native from the east Mediterranean to India. The Cumin Seed is uniformly elliptical and deeply furrowed. Cumin seeds or Jeera are the seeds of the caraway family.