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How to Transform Boring, packaged spices into
Restaurant-Quality Meals

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• Century Foods

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Ways to use packaged spices in restaurant dishes

• You may use spices for marination of the raw meat
  or vegetables before toasting, roasting, or
  frying them. Spices like turmeric, cumin powder,
  black pepper powder, and paprika are often used
  as marinating spices.
• Spices are often used for cooking curry bases in
  restaurants. Most salty and tangy dishes use
  spices like black pepper, paprika, and chili
  powder are used to bring that tanginess to food. 
• Spices are often used in making barbeque sauces
  and to make pickles.
• Spices are used in bakeries as well. The spices
  like Cinnamon, Cloves, and Cardamom are often
  used in baking bread, cupcakes, and pies.
• In restaurant-quality meals, spices are also used
  for garnishing the meals. Spices like thyme,
  rosemary, chives, and cilantro are used to
  garnish the dish.

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Some packaged spices and their usage

• Turmeric Powder
• Turmeric is one major ingredient that is used in
  most of the curry dishes made in restaurants. The
  yellowish powder looks so simple in the store
  however, it holds power to change the outlook of
  a dish. Turmeric is mostly used in Indian,
  Nepali, and Caribbean cuisines.

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Some packaged spices and their usage

• Chili/ Paprika Powder
• The bright red colored Chili/Paprika powder is
  made by grinding chilies or sweet orange and red
  peppers. It can range from mild to hot depending
  on the varieties of chilies used.
• This powder can add both color and flavor to the
  food which you intend to cook.

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Some packaged spices and their usage

• Curry Powder
• Curry powder is a mix of spices that are used to
  make curries, soups, and other salty and savory
  Indian dishes. It is a mixture of different
  spices in proportion. The spices like turmeric,
  ginger, cumin, black pepper, and coriander. 
• Although curry powder is primarily famous in
  India, there are other different types of curry
  powder in different parts of the world. The Thai
  curry powder also has lemongrass, and lime leaves
  to add that tanginess. In comparison, Caribbean
  curry powder gets its sweet and savory taste from
  spices like star anise and allspice.

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