Indian Food Flavors Garlic and Ginger

Garlic and Ginger are two vital ingredients of the indian cooking, this brings the
flavor and taste to the indian foods. Without these two components the indian food is
not complete and with addition of other spices the food becomes flavorish.

Garlic

Garlic is an herb that grows as a bulp in the ground much like onions.Garlic has the modern day cook when dishes are prepared and can be either chopped, ground or minced in receipes.Garlic is also used as medicines in many of the cultures for hundreds of years. It has a wonderful seasoning to add aroma taste and added nutrition in your dishes.

Ginger

Ginger is a bulb or horrizontial underground stem of a very leafy tropical plant. When use fresh form it flavor is lemony, sweet and spicy. In powdered form ginger
taste similar but lacks the lemony tones. Ginger can range in spiciness, so its best to smell or even taste a little before using it. If it is particulary strong then use a little bit of it in your receipe.
It is very popular in flavoring indian food and is also combine with other spices like coriander,garlic, mustard seed and fenugreek seeds.
Fresh ginger is particular good in making fish and meat because of its lemonary flavor, ginger soften the salty sea flavors. Dried ginger works well in sweet deserts and it also brightens the flavor of soups.