The basic ingredients of five-spice powder are ground peppercorns, cinnamon, star anise, cloves and cumin seeds. Some recipes also have dried ginger, cardamom, licorice, pepper, and tangerine peel. It is mainly used in stewed meat or poultry dishes, or added to marinades for flavor, or stuffing. Cumin 10 Cinnamon 10 Clove 8
Recipe 5: Cinnamon 45, Pepper 18, Anise 10, Star Anise 15, Allspice 3, Dried Ginger 5, Sand nut 3, Nutmeg 1.
Five-spice powder is generally used for marinating and soaking meat. Package meat dumplings, fried glutinous rice, add some five-spice powder, meat dumplings will be full of flavor.
In terms of consumption of five-spice powder, because of its strong flavor, it is appropriate to use discretion, generally 2 to 5 grams can be. Five spice powder has a strong flavor, spicy flavor, and a little sweet, mainly used to modulate marinated food and barbecue food, or used as a sauce pickles as well as hot pot seasoning.
The five-spice powder also has some dietary taboos. Five spice powder can not be consumed when there is fat oozing and become bitter. Pregnant women should not be consumed in early pregnancy, otherwise it is easy to cause intestinal dryness and constipation.