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Cumin herb

Dejah

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Dejah

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I picked up a package of this herb while in the Chinese supermarket. It smells like cumin, but the aroma is so strong when I was cutting it up that I couldn't face using it. It kind of turned my stomach and I LOVE cumin... :sad:

Any suggestions? It doesn't match any images of the cumin plant that is grown for cumin seeds.

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Dejah

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My bet is that it's rice paddy herb, which has a cumin like taste but is nothing like cumin, which is quite feathery in appearance. Try checking out Vietnamese cooking sites to see how to use it.

Nick Reynolds, aka "nickrey"

"The Internet is full of false information." Plato
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Dejah

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Thanks, Nickrey. If I had searched more diligently, I would've seen the image for "rice paddy herb". I also saw packages at the store that were labelled "rice paddy herb" and they looked different. Maybe the others were labelled incorrectly.

I see it is used mainly in Vietnamese dishes. Think I'll pass it along to my students from Vietnam. I just can't get the initial aroma and taste past my brain this time to try and cook with it.

Dejah

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