Black Cardamom From Zingiberaceae Family

Black Cardamom also has another name as hill cardamom, Bengal cardamom, greater cardamom, Indian cardamom, Nepal cardamom, winged cardamom, or brown cardamom, comes from either of two breed in the ancestors Zingiberaceae. Its berry pods accept a able camphor-like flavor, with a begrimed appearance acquired from the adjustment of drying.

Black Cardamom

Characteristics
The pods are acclimated as a spice, in a agnate address to the blooming Indian cardamom pods, but with a altered flavor. Unlike blooming cardamom, this balm is rarely acclimated in candied dishes. Its begrimed acidity and balm acquire from acceptable methods of dehydration over accessible flames.

Species
At atomic two audible breed of atramentous cardamom occur: Amomum subulatum (also accepted as Nepal cardamom) and A. costatum. The pods of A. subulatum, acclimated primarily in the cuisines of India and assertive bounded cuisines of Pakistan, are the abate of the two, while the beyond pods of A. costatum (Chinese: wiktionary:草果; pinyin: cǎoguǒ; Vietnamese: thảo quả) are acclimated in Chinese cuisine, decidedly that of Sichuan; and Vietnamese cuisine.

Culinary uses
Black cardamom is generally erroneously declared as an inferior acting for blooming cardamom by those alien with the spice; actually, it is just not as able-bodied ill-fitted for the sweet/hot dishes which about cover cardamom, and that are added frequently able alfresco the plant's built-in range. Atramentous cardamom, by contrast, is bigger for affable meat stews and agnate dishes. Although the acidity differs from the abate blooming cardamom, atramentous cardamom is sometimes acclimated by all-embracing bartering bakers because of its low cost.
In China, the pods are acclimated for jin-jin braised meat dishes, decidedly in the cuisine of the central-western arena of Sichuan. The pods are aswell generally acclimated in Vietnam, area they are alleged thảo quả and acclimated as an additive in the borsch for the brainstorm soup alleged phở.

The better ambassador of the atramentous cardamom is Nepal, followed by India and Bhutan. In acceptable Chinese medicine, atramentous cardamom is acclimated for abdomen disorders and malaria.