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Steak Marinade
Lara Lee
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15 minutes, plus at least 30 minutes’ marinating
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Place a small skillet over medium heat. Add spices and toast, stirring, until fragrant, 2 to 4 minutes. Pour into a small bowl and set aside to cool. If using the whole spices for a braise, they are ready to go.
To make the spices into a powder, use a spice grinder, clean coffee grinder, or mortar and pestle to grind the spices until fine. If you like, you can strain the mix through a fine-mesh strainer to remove any coarse bits, but this is optional. Store in an airtight container in a cool, dark place for up to 1 year.
Cumin is definitely not traditional.
"she" is Barbara Tropp
In "The China Moon Pantry" - the opening chapter to her 1992 cookbook, she pitches "Ten-Spice" powder: 2T fennel; 10-star anise (broken); 2T Szechwan peppercorns; 1T coriander seeds; 3/4 t whole cloves; 3/4 t cumin; 1.5t black peppercorns; 1/2 t ground cinnamon; 1/4 t ground ginger; 1/2 t turmeric. Toast whole spices. Add ground and grind.
Indian version (panchphoran): 1 tablespoon cumin seeds 1 tablespoon brown mustard seeds 1 tablespoon fennel seeds 1 tablespoon nigella seeds (also called black cumin or kalonji) 1½ teaspoons fenugreek seeds (wanted to make this private, but for some reason the app won't let me! So I hope it's useful.)
This looks good but the description of the numbing character as mala itself isn't accurate. The term mala is a combination of two things ma (numbing) and la (spicy heat). So that should be ma.
In "The China Moon Pantry" - the opening chapter to her 1992 cookbook, she pitches "Ten-Spice" powder: 2T fennel; 10-star anise (broken); 2T Szechwan peppercorns; 1T coriander seeds; 3/4 t whole cloves; 3/4 t cumin; 1.5t black peppercorns; 1/2 t ground cinnamon; 1/4 t ground ginger; 1/2 t turmeric. Toast whole spices. Add ground and grind.
"she" is Barbara Tropp
No cumin? interesting. For me, always with cumin. Barbara Tropp of 'China Moon' also liked fennel (so 6 spice she called it)
Cumin is definitely not traditional.
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