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HOW TO COOK CLOVE
Cooking with cloves in recipes
Clove has a pungent aroma, provides an intense, exhilarating and refreshing scent. To cook it use it sparingly because excessive doses is too intense and could mask other flavors.
Clove is mainly used as a spice. You can add between 2 or 4 cloves in a soup or stew pot, which will provide a sharp, exotic and refreshing taste, according to the proportion.
Clove can also be ground together with other spices. It blends well with, like turmeric, pepper, cinnamon, star anise, cumin, coriander, garlic, ginger or anise, choosing the ingredients according to the desired flavor: warm, spicy, etc.
Among these mixtures, there is the traditional spice Garam masala, or curry sauce prepared with coconut milk .
Clove to macerate
Clove is well suited to marinate, because it does not only provide aromas and organoleptic properties to food, but it helps keep it free from harmful bacteria, for its antiseptic properties.
This method is useful in recipes with fish, seafood or meat, that are only consumed marinated without cooking, like ceviche, sashimi, sushi, poke, lomi or carpaccio.
In this way, adding clove controls microorganisms in food during maceration, helping to prevent food poisoning.
With cloves you can also make infusions.
Recipes with cloves
The following list includes recipes of cloves:
Clove dishes:
Infusions:
Sauces:
Pastry with cloves:
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