What are the specific spices used in cooking?

There are star anise, peppercorns, allspice, cinnamon and miso.

1, star anise

Star anise (scientific name: Illicium verum? Hook.f.), is anise anise family, anise genus of a kind of plant, in Chinese cuisine, star anise is often a small amount of added to the fish and meat materials are used to cook braised, brined and five spices and other stewed thick dishes, in the Shaoxing area, it is a fennel beans the main seasoning, the fennel bean and so named.?

2, peppercorns

The traditional cooking methods of Chinese Sichuan cuisine use a lot of peppercorns. With the popularity of Sichuan cuisine, the cultivation area and production of peppercorns have increased dramatically. Even the English name of pepper is Sichuan Peppercorn or Sichuanese Peppercorn (i.e. "Sichuan Pepper"). Peppercorns and dashi are essential to the traditional home cooking seasonings in northern China, where they are used in meat stews.

3, incense leaf (bay leaf)

Laurel leaf is Europe, especially in the Mediterranean region of cooking is extremely common flavoring materials, North American and French cooking have dishes reuse bay leaf. They are used in soups, stews, seafood and vegetables. General cooking will be directly to the whole leaf without cutting the use of, or a few bundles of bay leaves with stems in other herbs tied up in the cooking vessel to facilitate the completion of its removal, because the general recipe requires the aroma rather than the flavor of the bay leaf, its pungent for diners is too intense

4, cinnamon

Cinnamon is also known as cinnamon, cinnamon, cinnamon or incense cinnamon, for the camphor family plant geranium cinnamon, Yinxiang, fine-leaf cinnamon, cinnamon or Sichuan cinnamon and other bark of the common name. This product is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, produced in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Sichuan and other provinces in China. Used as an aromatic condiment, but also can be extracted cinnamon oil, an important spice for the food industry, but also into medicine. Cinnamon, also known as cinnamon, is one of the earliest spices used by mankind.

5, miso

Miso, also known as soybean paste, is soybean-based raw materials, adding salt and different kinds of koji fermentation. Miso is the most popular seasoning in Japan, and it can be made into soups, cooked with meat into dishes, and made into the base of hot pot soup. Because miso is rich in protein, amino acids and dietary fiber, it is good for your health to eat it often, and when the weather turns cold, drinking miso soup can also warm your body and wake up your stomach.

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