Cardamom is a spice consisting of the pods and seeds of plants in the ginger family. Pods can be used whole or crushed to release the seeds, which can also be ground into a powder. The flavor of ...

Medically reviewed by Elizabeth Barnes, RDN Cardamom benefits extend beyond its culinary uses. This spice is rich in ...

Cardamom is widely used in Indian cooking and in Scandinavian baking. It can be bought in the pod, as seeds or ground but the ground seeds soon lose their flavour so it's preferable to buy the ...

Use a rolling pin or pestle and mortar to lightly crush 10 cardamom pods, making sure they're cracked open. Add the pods and seeds to the milk and heat in a saucepan or microwave until steaming ...

That's about $90 for a kilogram. But getting that little bit of cardamom requires a lot of work. Harvesters need to collect 6 kilograms of raw pods by hand to produce just 1 kilogram of green ...

Despite its price touching a five-year high, the small scale cardamom planters in Idukki, which constitutes 70-90% of the production of the spice in Kerala, have not been able to reap the benefit ...