Baharat, An Arabic Spice Blend Recipe

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Baharat is the Arabic word for spices and this blend can be used to flavour lamb, beef, chicken, fish and soups. It is simple to make at home.

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Do you ever receive a gift you know you will never use? What do you do with it? I have no qualms whatsoever about re-gifting. If I am not going to make use of a present I have two choices. One would be to throw it away and the other would be to give it away. Tossing something useful out because you cannot use it is a waste. And I really do not like to waste anything. And giving the gift to someone else at least means it will be used. That is, if I get it right and the person I am giving it to has use for the gift. I do try and make sure that the gift I am passing on is not between friends who know each other. I do this as I never want to make someone feel like their thought was not worthy.

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I know for certain that some of the gifts I have been given have been re-gifted. Usually because I recognize something from one friend as really being from another. I don’t take umbrage to this at all as it the concept behind the gift that counts. However, I am not sure how to react when a gift I have given someone has been given back to me. How would you react? Each year I choose a gift theme so as to not repeat myself. Next year I will be making spice blends for people. I think this baharat will go down a treat as it can be used in so many ways. I followed Yotam and Sami’s advice and used it to season the tabbouleh salad I recently made.


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Baharat

This spice blend is easy to make at home and is extremely versatile
Recipe Category: Spice Blend
All Rights Reserved: Adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi's Jerusalem page 299

Ingredients

  • 5 mls black peppercorns
  • 5 mls coriander seeds
  • One small cinnamon quill broken up
  • 2.5 mls cloves
  • 2.5 mls ground all spice
  • 10 mls cumin seeds
  • 5 mls cardamom pods I used white
  • Half a nutmeg freshly grated

Method

  • Place all of the ingredients into a spice grinder
  • Grind until fine
  • Store in a lidded glass jar and use as needed

 

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