Schwartz Asafoetida Spice Reviews
Product Type: Schwartz Spices & Seasoning
Description:Brand: Schwartz / Type: Other Spices
Newest Review: ... recipe that I thought asafoetida would be essential to the finished dish. At Tesco you can only buy Schwartz brand ... more
... asafoetida (to be honest, it's such an obscure and little-used seasoning that I was pleasantly surprised to find that they sold it at all) and it currently costs £1.81 for 52g. I thought this was a bit over-priced - especially when I found that although the Schwartz asafoetida powder looks exactly the same as the other brand stuff I used to buy, it's not pure resin: it also contains ingredients such as rice flour, as well as turmeric for colour. Asafoetida resin itself, in fact, was one of the minor constituents of the Schwar...more
by - written on 25/01/10 (Very useful, 1437 readings)
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Asafoetida is an edible resin - dried plant sap - derived mainly from the stem and roots of a plant from the Umbelliferae family (which includes other aromatic / edible plants such as fennel, dill and parsley, as well as a number of deadly-poisonous members). Asafoetida has a famously bad odour when raw but this changes on cooking - it's usually fried and used to flavour oil, or incorporated into a marinade - and has long been used as a spice in Indian and eastern foods. When you buy it to use in cooking it comes as a slightly granular, beige-coloured powder, with a few noticeably larger grains in the mix. Most recipes that call for the use of asafoetida ... Read the complete review
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