Import from India.
Organic Cumin seed is an aromatic and have a strong flavor seed that is usually used as a condiment specially in culinary preparation to savour the different dishes such as bread, curries, sweets and many more. It also help in maintaining the consumer's health due to its nutrients, vitamins and minerals content such. It is used as an stimulant, carminative, stomachic and astringent. It have iron that is an integral component of hemoglobin that transports the oxygen from the lungs to the body cells and part of the essential enzyme for the production of energy and metabolism. Iron plays also an important role during the menstrual period of a woman in exchange to their iron loss during their period.
Cumin Seed
The way to use.
-Use in curry dish ingredients.
The benefit is
-Improve digestion system
-Relief stomachache
-Relief flatulence disease
Example menu for using Organic / Bio Cumin Seed
Kebab Sandwich
Ingredients for makes 4 sandwiches
400 g/14 oz seitan, in one piece
2 pinches ground coriander
2 pinches of cumin seed
1-2 pinches dried chillies
1-2 pinches dried chillies
1 heaped tbsp mild paprika
3 tbsp neutral-flavoured
vegetable oil
Salt, ground pepper
1/2 onion
1-2 tomatoes
1/2 cucumber
4 pitta or ciabatta breads
20 g/1 tbsp iceberg
lettuce leaves
How to cook
Cut the seitan into thin 5-cm/2-inch long and 2-cm/3/4inch wide strips with a potato peeler. Mix well in a bowl with the herbs and spices.
Heat the oil in a frying pan and sear the seitan quickly on high heat, turning regularly. Season with salt and pepper and put on a plate.
Peel the onion and cut into thin slices. Wash and prepare the tomato, wash the cucumber and cut both into 12-cm/1-inch thick slices.
Heat the bread in the oven for a few minutes and cut in half. Cover the lower half of the bread with the seitan. Put the tomato, cucumber and onion slices on top and garnish with lettuce. Put the top on the sandwich and serve.
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