Cloves

Cloves with a warm, rich flavour

Cloves have a warm, rich flavour with a strong aroma of camphor and pepper. Their wintery taste is delicous in warm, spicy drinks like glühwine, Turkish coffee and winter tea.

Cloves have a long tradition in the kitchens of China, Greece, India, Russia and Scandinavia. They are used in herb and spice blends all over the world: in the Indian garam masala, Chinese 5 spice, Dutch speculoos spices and French quatre epices. In the North-African cuisine, cloves intensify the flavour of rice and meat dishes. In Asia cloves are a popular spice in curries.

Spicy cloves in the kitchen

Add a couple of cloves to stews, pork roast, cooked broth and sauces. They also give a warm, peppery flavour to the water of steamed vegetables. The taste of cloves is delicious with apples, carrots, onions, oranges, pumpkins, red cabbage and sweet potatoes.

Cloves are often combined with cinnamon, ginger, mace and nutmeg in sweet dishes. In savory dishes cloves are used with sage, pepper, pimento, laurel, cardamom, chili, coriander and fennel.

Use

In dishes

• One clove equals 1/4 tsp ground cloves.
• Cloves have a very intense flavour and aroma. Only use a small amount so the flavour is not too overpowering.

In and around the house

• By squeezing a couple of cloves into an orange you can easily make a pretty decoration with a very pleasant smell.
• A lemon with cloves keeps mosquitoes, wasps and flies at a distance.

Ingredients

100% pure, whole cloves.

Allergens

This product contains no allergens.

This product is packaged and/or stored in a facility that also processes products containing nuts, peanuts, mustard, celery, gluten, sesame, soy and sulphite. Despite all precautions, this product may contain traces of these allergens.

Also known as

• Caryophyllus aromaticus