Five Spice powder

The five basics of Chinese cooking are blended into Chinese five spice powder. It is a combination of five spices like star anise, fennel seeds, Chinese cinnamon, Szechuan peppercorns and cloves. It not only used in Chinese cooking, but in Arabian and Asian also. You can buy ready made spice powder from grocery stores. If you can’t find it, try it.

Ingredients

• 1 ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
• 3 star anise
• ¾ teaspoon fennel seeds
• 1 ½ teaspoon black pepper or scheshwan pepper corns
• 4 cloves

Direction of preparation of five spice powder
 

• Roast all the spices a bit and ground in a mixer grinder.