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What Plants Does Curry Powder Come From?
What Plants Does Curry Powder Come From?. Curry powder is a mixture of turmeric, coriander, chillies, cumin, mustard, ginger, fenugreek, garlic, cloves, and salt. It does not come from the plant Helichrysum italicum or curry plant, which is not palatable.
Curry powder is a mixture of turmeric, coriander, chillies, cumin, mustard, ginger, fenugreek, garlic, cloves, and salt. It does not come from the plant Helichrysum italicum or curry plant, which is not palatable.
Plant Roots
Turmeric comes from the plant Curcuma longa L. while ginger comes form Zingiber officinale. Both of these herbs have their rhyizomes are harvested, dried, and ground into a powder. Garlic comes from the bulb of the Allium sativum. This herb is dried and graded into a powder.
Plant Seeds
Fenugreek is the seed of the Trigonella foenum-graecum L. plant, cumin comes from the Caminum cyminum and mustard comes from the Brassicaceae plant. All three herbs are harvested by collecting the seed, drying it, and crushing it into a powder. Coriander comes from the Coriandrum sativam plant. Both leaves and seeds are used in curry powder. Cloves come from the dried, unopenned flower buds of the Syzygium aromaticum. Chilies are dried with seeds intact and crushed.
From the Soil
Salt is harvested from the ground or from salt water and added to curry powder.
