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Panch Phoron: Bengali Five Spice

Panch phoron is a colorful mixture of five whole spices used in Bengali (East Indian) cuisine. It has a bittersweet flavor and traditionally includes the following five seeds: cumin, black mustard seed, fenugreek, fennel and nigella in relatively equal proportions. Alternatively, you’ll find that sometimes black sesame seed replaces the hard-to-find nigella seed. Unlike...

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