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Give your health a boost with these benefits of spices

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Spices, the culinary luxury we’ve been bestowed with not only add taste and flavour to our cuisines, but they carry a plethora of health benefits. Whether it’s your prized best quality spices or your good ole, handy dandy dhaniya powder, spices do a great deal in improving your health. Here are some spices and their benefits. Chilli That red chilli powder in your cabinet ought to get more credit than it does for packing a scintillating spice in your food. The component, capsaicin, which is found in red chilli in abundance, aids in relieving pain and inflammation when used in at-home natural pain-relieving remedies. It also reduces food cravings and increases metabolism – two things that are essential for healthy weight loss. Black Pepper Black pepper is one of the widely recognized spices that come with numerous health benefits. It quells aggravation of the digestive system and overabundance of gas. It also keeps a check on your heart rate and helps with circulat...

The 4 essential spices that rule any Indian kitchen

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North, South, East or West. No matter which part of India one traverses, no matter the culture, tradition, recipes – one will always find the 4 most  essential  spices that’s imperative to cooking.  It could be as simple as dal or as exquisite as Hyderabadi biryani .   c hilli ,  c umin,  c oriander and  t urmeric are integral to making  any dish.   So, let’s delve a little deeper and know a little more  about them.   Chil l i  ( C apsicum  A nnuum)   Thanks to the Portuguese who brought  chi l li  peppers to Goa from the Americans in the early 16 th  century, chili  ( mirch  in Hindi)  is now is such an integral  part of Indian cooking.  Like mentioned before, it’s present in every region and dish.  If you’re in the market next time to refill your  spice  cabinet with the  best  chilli  powder ,  look for the...