Fenugreek Seeds,India Swati price supplier

• Fenugreek is a leguminous plant belonging to the pea family. The seeds are oval, flat, very hard and mid-brown in colour. Exceedingly bitter to the taste, the seeds are most often used roasted, ground and then used as flavouring in curries.
• The leaves are also used as a vegetable and as a flavouring herb. Fenugreek leaves have a strong flavour and smell and are used in Turkey, some Arabian countries and in India.
• Culinary Uses
• In India, every part of the fenugreek plant is used. Since it has a short growing season, that is the late winter and early spring months in north India, it is used both fresh as a leafy green vegetable and dried for the time that it is not available. The leaves, both fresh and dried, are used in meat curries,  dal , vegetable dishes and chutneys. In the winter months, an amalgam of leafy greens is cooked together, of which fenugreek greens are an integral part.
• As a dried herb, it is used to flavour the classical Mughlai dish  Butter Chicken  or  Murgh Makhani . The dried fenugreek gives its luscious tomato gravy a unique flavour. It is also one of the ingredients in the making of  khakhra , a type of griddle-cooked, whole wheat, crispbread from Gujarat, India. It is an ingredient of [[ panchphoron ]], the Indian five-spice mixture from Bengal and Orissa. The roasted ground seeds are infused as a coffee substitute or adulterant.
• Elsewhere, fenugreek is used to flavour Ethiopian, Turkish, Yemenese, Iranian and Egyptian food. In Egypt, Fenugreek seeds are prepared as tea by infusing the seeds in hot water.
• The major use of fenugreek is in curry powders, figuring in many mixtures, especially vindaloo from Sri Lanka. Many chutneys and pickles incorporate it and it gives a tangy aroma to vegetables.

Uses of Fenugreek Seeds

Fenugreek seeds are ground and roasted and used to flavor to curry. The seeds are also soaked and then powdered and used to make lip balm and tonic. 

The seeds can be used to make tea, which can reduce fever and menstrual pains, or they can be used in an ointment to treat skin infections. 

Ground seeds are often used to give a maple flavor to sweets and candies. Ground seeds are also used to flavor cattle food, including different vegetable meals and hays. 

Medicinal Properties - Fenugreek

Fenugreek seeds are used to treat bronchitis, coughs, respiratory problems, sinus conditions and to increase milk supply. 

Fenugreek seeds are used in colic flatulence, dysentery, diarrhea, dyspepsia, chronic cough and enlargement of liver and spleen, rickets, gout and diabetes. It is also used as a carminative, tonic and aphrodisiac. They increase the secretion and discharge of urine, relieve flatulence and promote lactation in nursing mothers. They also arrest any secretion or bleeding and have an aphrodisiac effect. They are the best cleansers within the body, highly mucous-solvent and soothing agent.

Fenugreek seed powder has been used for centuries as a spice to increase the taste of curries by the Pakistani and the Chinese. This Fenugreek seed powder was first introduced to the Arabs and the Europeans through Spice Trading. Medicinally it was used for the treatment of wounds, abscesses, arthritis, bronchitis, and digestive problems. Traditional Chinese herbalists used it for kidney problems and conditions affecting the male reproductive tract. Fenugreek was, and remains, a food and a spice commonly eaten in many parts of the world.

Type:

Machine Cleaned / Machine cleaned Sortexed

Purity:

97% /98%/ 99%

Odour:

Celery and bitter

Colour:

Caramel to light yellow

Moisture:

5% to 6% max

Green Seeds:

2% max

Total ASH:

10% max

Acid insuluble ASH:

1.25% max

Flavour:

Aromatic sweet

Salmonella:

Absent