Cumin is an essential spice in Mexican, Indian, African, and Asian cuisine. The spice also works well in a variety of rice dishes, stews, soups, breads, pickles and barbecue sauces. It is a typical ingredient in many spice blends, such as curry powder , It is best to be conservative when cooking with cumin as its flavor can easily overtake a dish.
Cumin is used as dried seed and also as ground powder.
Cumin, also known as comino, is native to the Nile valley in Egypt.
It is now cultivated in other hot regions of India, the Mediterranean and Northern Africa. Currently, more than 50% of all cumin comes from India.
