North African Chermoula – Mild – 35g

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North African Chermula is an aromatic blend of spices from North Africa, particularly used in Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian cuisines. This delicious blend can be used as a dry rub or can be mixed with lemon juice, yoghurt and olive oil to make a wet marinade or be used as a dip. Toasting the spices before adding to dishes can be a great way to release their natural oils thus creating a more intense and caramelised flavour. Chermula is a delicate and zesty blend of sweet paprika, pepper, cumin, coriander, parsley, garlic, turmeric, sea salt and cayenne pepper. North African spice mixes tend to be less about the heat content and more about creating a depth of flavour.

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Flavour Notes:

Chermula is a delicate and zesty blend of sweet and savoury spices. African spice mixes tend to be less about the heat content and more about creating a depth of flavour.

Culinary Notes:

Use to make traditional North African dishes like slow-cooks and tagines or just add a unqiue spicy hit to your everyday soups, pasta sauces, rice dishes and so much more. Pair your final dish with fresh, zesty salads and salsas to offset the deep, rich flavours of the Chermula blend.

Health Benefits:

All of our blends are full of spices that are beneficial to your health. They are preservative-free, additive-free, filler-free and contain low or zero salt. The intense flavour from our spice blends means a little goes a long way.

Ingredients:

Cumin, Sweet paprika, garlic, turmeric, pepper, coriander, parsley, cayenne pepper and sea salt (0.5%). This is a low salt Blend

Country of Origin:

North Africa

Other names or spelling:

Chermoula, Charmoula

How to use

  • Make into an aromatic dip with plain yoghurt and lemon juice
  • Use 1tbsp to 500g of protein
  • To release the volatile oils in the spices, this blend it best added at the beginning of cooking
  • Use as a dry rub over meat before grilling or roasting for an aromatic outer crust
  • Sprinkle over veg before roasting in the oven for a twist on a classic
  • Replace an array of spices in a dish with this one handy blend
  • Rub over cut of meat and place in a pot with veg and stock to slow cook
  • Combine with olive oil and lemon juice to make a simple, quick marinade

The Spice People FAQs

Chermoula spice is a traditional North African marinade and seasoning blend commonly used in Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian cuisines. It’s a fragrant mixture of various herbs, spices, and often includes garlic, lemon, and olive oil.

Chermoula spice is incredibly versatile and can be used as a marinade for fish, poultry, or meat before grilling, baking, or frying. It can also be used as a seasoning for roasted vegetables or as a flavourful dressing for salads and couscous dishes.

Chermoula spice can vary in heat level depending on the amount of cayenne pepper or other spicy ingredients used. However, it’s typically not overly spicy and can be adjusted to suit individual preferences by varying the amount of heat-inducing ingredients.

The Spice People FAQs

Simple or smoke paprika along with cayenne pepper is the best alternative. Paprika tastes similar to Kashmiri Chilli, while cayenne paper adds to its spice.

Dried Kashmiri chilli is more flavorful than hot, ranging from 1,000-2,000 Scoville Heat Units. It’s mildly hot but not too spicy.

These spices are different. Paprika is the sweet cousin of Kashmiri chilli specific to western cuisine. Kashmiri chilli popular in Indian cuisine and is hotter than paprika.

Place the Kashmiri chilli under the sun for two days. When the chillies turn crispy, grind them in a food mill. Cool down the powder and store it in an airtight jar.

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This subtle and artful balance provides the perfect flavour foundation for creating the best Malaysian food with the addition of salty hits from dried anchovies and shrimp, up to ten different soy sauces ranging from salty to sweet, puckering sourness from tamarind pulp, and sweetness from palm sugar and coconut milk. Cook your own authentic Malaysian Cuisine with our Malaysian spices online and explore our catalogue of beautiful recipes you can make with this spice blend.

History & influences

Arab traders brought spices from the Middle East, European and British travellers introduced produce like peanuts, pineapple, avocado, tomato, squash and pumpkin. During their time on the Malay Peninsula, the Chinese developed a distinctive cuisine known as ‘Nonya’, resulting from blending Chinese recipes and wok cooking techniques with spices and ingredients used by the local Malay community. The dishes are tangy, aromatic, spicy and herbaceous, and the signature dish is none other than Malaysia’s famous spiced noodle soup – Laksa.

What is Malaysian cuisine

As important as the rendang recipe itself is to Malaysian cuisine, what to serve with beef rendang is arguably just as imperative. Whether making the traditional beef version or a slightly lighter chicken, vegetable or fish, the rich flavour and intense texture of a rendang requires a perfect balance of freshness and tang when it comes to entrees and sides. Salads like Fresh Cucumber & Peanut and Sweet and Sour Cucumber & Pineapple Achar provide the perfect disruption to the bold, rich spices of the rendang and soothe and cool the palette alongside fluffy steamed rice and flaky golden roti bread. Entrees served at meal times in Malaysia often feature Nasi Lemak – their national dish, or Malaysian Chicken Satay to whet the appetite ready for the main event. Traditionally, the best Malaysian food is finished with an after-meal drink of Kopi Tarek ‘sweet coffee’ or The Tarik ‘sweet tea’. These are combined with condensed milk and water, and the coffee or tea drinks are ‘pulled’ by pouring vigorously between jugs to create a frothy consistency. To read more about the flavours of Malaysia and the traditional accompaniments to an authentic Malaysian Rendang, Click Here to check out our blog post.

Spiceology

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