Asian Spice Blend - Capture the Fab Taste and
Essence of Food From This Flavour-packed Region

This easy-to-make Asian spice blend is just the recipe if you're cooking Asian style. Made with traditional herbs and spices, it'll season and flavour many of your dishes ranging from stir-fries to rice and noodle dishes to your grilled steak and chicken cooking. (See the bottom of the page for links to more of my recipes)

What You'll Need: (makes 7-8 tablespoons)

2 tbsp sesame seeds
2 tbsp chopped dried orange peel (optional)
2 tbsp cumin seeds
1 tbsp dried chives
4 tsp dried basil
2 tsp ginger powder
2 tsp garlic powder
2 tsp onion powder
2 tsp chili powder
2 tsp peppercorns
1 tsp fennel seeds
1-2 tsp salt (see note 2 below)

tbsp = tablespoon
tsp = teaspoon

Directions:

Grind the sesame seeds, salt, peppercorns, fennel and cumin seeds and, if using, the dried
orange peel

Once ground add to a bowl

Add the ginger, onion, garlic and chili powders to the bowl and combine thoroughly

Finally, crumble in the dried basil and chives and combine again

Store your Asian spice mix in an airtight jar out of direct sunlight. Use within 3 months.

Note: To get even more flavour you could dry toast the peppercorns, sesame, fennel and cumin seeds for a couple of minutes prior to cooling and grinding. The heat from the toasting really brings out the flavours and aromas.

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