Clove Cooking Ideas

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Cooking Tips

Cloves are one of the most powerful spices so one or two might be all you need.
Cloves can bring an intense warmth and complex flavour to pastries and baked goods like pumpkin pie.
Use in festive mulled wine or cider.
Mix with other spices in rubs, marinades or curry blends to soften the flavour.
Cloves are common in Indian cooking, drop a clove or two into a curry or rice dish. Make sure to remove them after cooking as they're quite hard and woody.

Recipe ideas using cloves

Clove Flavour Pairings

Spice Flavour Profile

Clove is a warming spice meaning it is in between spicy and sweet. Cloves are very powerful so should be used sparingly. They have a sweet flavour with bitter notes and quite a powerful peppery warmth which develops.

Spice Pairings

Cloves pair well with the similar warming spices allspice and nutmeg, also going well with the sweeter cinnamon, cardamom and star anise. These flavours combine to make a "festive" winter tasting blend. Cloves are a component of the Indian all purpose blend garam masala with as many as 20 other spices.