Turmeric

Description

Turmeric is in an Indian and Sri lankan dish every day. It is the main spice for making curry. It is considered as the gold of spices. For this there are three reasons: the color, the taste and the health benefits. The homeland of turmeric is India, but also Sri lanka produce a very tasty turmeric.

TASTE

Strong flavor sweet and peppery overtones.

NOTABLE FACTS

Turmeric is known as golden spice of India. The turmeric plants were cultivated by Harappan civilization earlier in the 3000 B.C. It is basically a tropical plant of ginger family is the rhizome or underground stem, with a rough, segmented skin. Turmeric It looks much like ginger and turns things into a lovely orange-yellow shade. Turmeric is of Zingiberaceae family, Zingiberaceae - A family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales. There are approximately 30 varieties have been recognized in the type of Curcuma in which turmeric belongs.