Cardamom recipes
Cardamom has a wonderful aroma and an enticing warm, floral scent and a flavour that enhances savoury and sweet dishes - from Swedish cinnamon buns to Indian biryanis.
These Swedish favourites are delicately flavoured with a sugary cardamom butter. If you can find ground cardamom then it will save you a little effort, but itβs simple enough to grind the seeds with a pestle and mortar.
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Buyer's guide
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 pods and grind the seeds yourself using a pestle and mortar.
Preparation
If youβre using cardamom to flavour dishes such as stews and curries, lightly crush the whole pod and add it to the mixture: the shell can be removed after cooking or eaten in the dish.
