Ingredients · Spices and dried aromatics
Cumin (ground)
How long it keeps
About 24 months unopened
Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 238 Spice/spices, ground, 2–3 Years · https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fsis-foodkeeper-data
What ends it. It stops tasting of much long before it becomes unsafe to eat. How to make it last longer
Storage
Cool, dark, airtight. Bloom in hot fat for thirty seconds; this is most of the difference between good and dull.
Worth reading
The pack
- Typical UK size
- 40 g
- Weight packed
- 65 g
- Volume
- 90 ml
Computed from net weight and standard pack geometry, not weighed. Manufacturers publish net weight and nobody publishes packed weight or displaced volume, so this is an estimate and is labelled as one.
Per 100 g
Deliberately narrow. These are the five things a long-life diet actually gets wrong, plus energy and protein. It is not a general nutrition model and is not meant to be.
- Energy
- not measured
- Protein
- 17.8 g
- Fibre
- 10.5 g
- Vitamin C
- 8 mg
- Vitamin A
- 127 µg
- Omega-3
- not measured
- Sodium
- 168 mg
Source: CoFID 2021: 13-889 Cumin seeds
27 recipes using cumin (ground)
- Alfalfa sprout and chickpea wraps
- Apricot and chickpea tagine
- Black bean and hot sauce wraps
- Black bean and sweetcorn chilli
- Bulgur with dates, almonds and cinnamon
- Chana masala from dried chickpeas
- Chickpea and tahini mash
- Chilli from dried kidney beans
- Couscous with sun-dried tomato and almonds
- Harissa and chickpea soup
- Harissa chickpea wraps
- Kidney bean and tomato soup
- Marrowfat pea fritters
- Nut and sesame dukkah
- Quinoa with apricots and almonds
- Quinoa with chickpeas and lemon
- Red lentil dal with coconut
- Refried black beans
- Rice and lentils with crisp onion
- Sardine and lemon couscous
- Savoury semolina with paprika oil
- Seeded and spiced flatbread
- Smoky chickpea and tomato stew
- Spiced carrot and chickpea soup
- Spiced rice with lentils and raisins
- Split pea dal with turmeric
- Tomato and red lentil soup