Spices

Coriander is an age-old aromatic plant that has been used for centuries in cooking and garnishing. 

This coriander powder will open up a whole new culinary experience, and helps to enhance your dishes with a delicious fragrance and zesty note. Best used with seafood dishes and creamy sauces. 

Garam Masala is found in many types of meat and vegetable curry recipes. It can be mixed with yoghurt as a delicious sauce or added to desserts (such as doughnuts, rice pudding, fruit salads, and more!).

When ground with a mortar and pestle, it will spice up sautéed chicken, a spicy soup, a vegetable tart or Indian-style fish dishes. In Hindi, Garam means “spicy” and Masala means “spice mix”. It’s a roasted spice mix which is widely used in North Indian cuisine and has enchanted the rest of India and Pakistan. Here's what you'll need to make your own Garam Masala mix: fenugreek, cinnamon, fennel, black pepper, green cardamom, coriander.

Ingredients: Fenugreek, cinnamon, fennel, black pepper, green cardamom, coriander

This spice mix gets its name from the tandoor clay oven that is traditionally dug into the ground. This oven is used in Northern India and Afghanistan for cooking naan bread and the famous tandoori chicken. In India, cooking is a true art, with recipes and expertise passed down from generation to generation, based on religious traditions which formed certain culinary customs.

This spice mix, so emblematic of India with its deep red colour, has a slightly smoky and salty flavour. Although it’s hot it’s also quite fresh and is not as hot as Madras Curry. It is made from ground coriander, ginger, cardamom, garlic, oregano, fenugreek, cumin, cinnamon, pepper, chilli pepper, nutmeg, cloves, mace, laurel, mustard and salt. The flavours blend together in perfect harmony producing a truly delicious wealth of flavours, perfect with white meat, scallops and king prawns.

Ingredients: Paprika, black pepper, coriander, cumin, garlic, ginger, caraway, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg.

Turmeric is used as a spice, and is widely used in spice mixes like curry or masala and is also used as a food colouring and in olden times was used as paint. It comes from Sud-East India and is grown widely in Asia and Africa.

Turmeric is a wonderful yellow-orange rhizome, with peppery musky aromas. It comes from a tropical plant from the same family as ginger.

It goes through many long stages of processing; once it has been cleaned and cut, it is boiled to remove the skin and then peeled, dried and finally, ground into a powder.

In La Réunion, this local saffron is essential for fragrant traditional dishes, where it shines not only by its powerful colour but also by its health benefits.

This turmeric from Madagascar is harvested from July to October by the Bezanozano people. "Tamotamo" in Malagasy means turmeric. It is traditionally used on the island to spice up rice pudding or the local flan "Koba" made of banana puree and rice flour.

Turmeric is used in many spice mixes in Indian, West Indian, Nepalese, Thai or North African cuisine: curry, tandoori, vadouvan, Colombo, ras-el-hanout. In ancient times it was traded on the spice route between the West and the East.