Omega Cloves: whole aromatic cloves for biryani, garam masala, chai and roasts. Single 1 kg pack.
Cloves are dried flower buds with an intense, sweet and numbing aroma. A few whole cloves go into biryani, pulao, kabsa, garam masala, chai and mulled fruit juices, and they are pressed into roast onions or oranges for festive dishes. Use them sparingly, as two to four cloves flavour a whole pot of rice. Fry them in hot oil at the start of cooking and remove before serving if you prefer. Cloves are the aromatic dried flower buds of Syzygium aromaticum, a tree native to the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. Store whole cloves in a sealed glass jar, as their oils can scent plastic containers and nearby food. Cloves are also studded into whole onions for bread sauce and into roast meat, and in South Asia a few are fried in ghee at the start of almost every pulao.
