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Garam masala blend
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About
A warm ground spice blend used toward the end of cooking in many North Indian and related repertoires. Formulas vary widely by household and region.
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Garam masala is a family of blends, not one recipe. This foundation blend is explicitly a teaching stand-in pending regional pinning.
Sources
- General South Asian spice-blend teaching
Skill ladder
- L1 Garam masala blend · this page
- L2 Classic garam masala
- L3 Advanced garam masala
Uses
- Toasted cumin seed 20 g
- Toasted coriander seed 20 g
- Green cardamom pods 8 g
- Ground cinnamon 6 g
- Cloves 4 g
- Black pepper 6 g
Preparations used
Used in
- Butter chicken dish
- Advanced butter chicken dish
- Classic butter chicken dish
- Chana masala dish
- Advanced Chana masala dish
- Classic Chana masala dish
- Chicken curry dish
- Chicken tikka masala dish
- Advanced Chicken tikka masala dish
- Classic Chicken tikka masala dish
- Palak paneer dish
- Advanced Palak paneer dish
- Classic Palak paneer dish
Similar in this layer
Full raw-ingredient roll-up
Secondary view: every leaf ingredient with its path.
- 20.0 g Coriander seedpath garam-masala-blend → toasted-coriander-seed → coriander-seed
- 20.0 g Cumin seedpath garam-masala-blend → toasted-cumin-seed → cumin-seed
- 8.0 g Green cardamom podspath garam-masala-blend → cardamom-pod
- 6.0 g Black pepperpath garam-masala-blend → black-pepper
- 6.0 g Ground cinnamonpath garam-masala-blend → cinnamon
- 4.0 g Clovespath garam-masala-blend → clove