Black Cardamom

Appears in

A Whisper of Cardamom

By Eleanor Ford

Published 2024

About

Why love it

The larger pods of black cardamom share a medicinal note with green cardamom, but the flavours are bolder and aggressively smoky. Wonderful with chocolate.

Match with

Bean: chocolate

Nut: pecan, hazelnut

Sweet fruit: blueberry, pear

Spice & herb: pepper, ginger, vanilla, black sesame

Extract the flavour

The husk holds the smokiness, so lightly crush and infuse the whole pod to capitalise on this quality.