If you can find ground cardamom then it will save you a little effort, but it’s simple enough to grind the seeds with a pestle and mortar. Use a rolling pin or pestle and mortar to lightly crush ...
That's about $90 for a kilogram. But getting that little bit of cardamom requires a lot of work. Harvesters need to collect 6 kilograms of raw pods by hand to produce just 1 kilogram of green ...
Cardamom is widely used in Indian cooking and in Scandinavian baking. It can be bought in the pod, as seeds or ground but the ground seeds soon lose their flavour so it's preferable to buy the ...
I started my journey in Hanoi, more than 200 miles southeast. At a market near my old apartment, I bought six black cardamom pods for 9,000 Vietnamese dong, or 39 cents. They were about twice as ...