| Fenugreek is the ripe, dried fruit of an annual leguminous herb. Both seeds
and plant of this herb is used in ethnic food.
The dried leaves of the fenugreek is used as a quality
flavor for meat, fish and vegetable dishes. It acts as a medicine as well as
an embalming agent. Fenugreek seeds are rich in vitamin E and is one of the
earliest spices known to man.
Fenugreek
has a strong, quite peculiar odor reminiscent of maple. It is used in almost
all dishes and in pickles.
Commercially known as 'Methi', Indian Fenugreek comes
in several well-known varieties such as 'Desi' and 'champa'. The spice is
exported in its whole and powdered form. The extracted oil of fenugreek is
extensively used in perfumery.
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