aromatic spices
Scented culinary additives
Aromatic spices are spices valued primarily for their fragrance rather than heat or color—cinnamon, cardamom, clove, nutmeg, allspice.
The term distinguishes them from pungent spices like chili peppers or coloring spices like turmeric.
The kitchen filled with the scent of aromatic spices.
- curry powderGround spice mixture
- Indian cookingSubcontinent's culinary traditions
- turmericYellow rhizome spice
- cardamomAromatic seed pod spice
- chai teaSpiced milk infusion
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