Spices in order to release their essential oils, most of them except for a few like nutmeg are dry roasted before being ground into spice mixes. Usually using a spice grinder rather than a mortar and pestle is preferable to blend to make sure that your mixes are ground finely. This is because a few spices like cassia bark are very tough and hard to blend into a fine powder.
Aren’t you tempted by the thought of having a hot cup of spicy tea, hot coffee or even a steaming bowl of cooked rice in vegetables with ghee or a warm bowl of vegetable soup in the evenings? Life without spice isn't that tasty! Let’s have a look on the regularly used spices in the Indian kitchen.
The main benefit of using these red spices in our daily cooking is that they generate enough heat into the body helping the body to keep balanced. The heat produced is due to the capsaicin, an ingredient that is actually found in one of the regularly consumed spices chilli pepper, throughout the world.