Cardamom is a special spice belonging to the same family as ginger. These aromatic pod spices can be toasted whole or ground up. Either way, they bring a magical warming effect to your meals.
Now we were close to our destination—a black cardamom forest on a nearby peak—but couldn’t find the approach trail among the shrubs and wildflowers. Lang’s husband, Duong, had just ...
For black cardamom, a substitute like smoked paprika or smoked sea salt will add a similar smoky flavour to recipes but will lack black cardamom’s distinctly pungent flavour.
Are they interchangeable in recipes? When I finally did get to an Asian grocer to buy some cardamom pods I was even more confused because they also had black cardamom and cardamom seeds.