Hi all

Brilliant recipes Mamta & family

I'm looking forward to making my own Peshawri naans - can I use Apricots?

Crux of my enquiry though is: I use about two tbsp of green cardamom pods in a curry, which I usually bash in a pestle & mortar & pick out the outer pods leaving the black/brown seeds. It takes ages though. Is there a quick way? My family and guests hate to get the whole pods in the finished dish. I also use one or two black cardamoms but they're easy enough to fish out.

Thanks!

Hi Noeni,

I do almost what you do and put them in and give them a bash, however the trick is to only crack the casing and then you can lift it out whole and open it up. This beats picking lots of broken casings out.

The otherway of course is to use a coffee grinder (or spice grinder) and just grind the whole lot up.

Steve

Welcome :-)!

You can grind them and use the powder, but add this at the end of cooking, like it is for desserts like rice pudding.

Mamta