Whole spices
Comptoir des Poivres offers a wide selection of whole or shaved spices. Turmeric, nutmeg, cloves, pistachios, aniseed and cocoa beans will delight cooks, pastry chefs and gourmets.
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Shelled pistachios from Aegina
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From €10.50Its odour is not very pronounced, slightly sweet, fruity and vegetal. Its flavor is sweet, very slightly resinous, with a light bitterness.
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Whole Colubian cocoa beans
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From €7.40You can immediately taste the typical chocolate flavour of these cocoa beans, but it is very delicate. There are no burnt notes as the roasting preserves the natural cocoa notes.
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Green cardamom seeds from Guatemala
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From €13.80Smell is powerful, in a very fresh register: eucalyptus and camphor are dominant, a strong presence of lemon and menthol evoking black seed, beautiful floral touches and aromatic herbs, mainly sage and bay leaf.
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Roasted Fenugreek
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From €9.90The seed has a very pleasant odour, evoking caramel with notes of liquorice. It has a note of celeriac, reminiscent of Madras curry. The flavour of the seeds is bitter and tastes of celeriac.
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Roasted cocoa beans
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From €59.00The beans have very little odour. In the mouth the chocolate taste appears immediately, with a burnt sideand a pleasant bitterness, without any sweetness.
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Turmeric shavings
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From €6.85Its smell is powerful, slightly hot, spicy, minty, fruity and floral, sharp, with a slight pleasant bitterness.
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Whole clove
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From €9.20The clove has a hot, sweet and spicy, woody and spicy flavor. It is used by the pharmaceutical industry for its disinfectant, healing and anaesthetic properties. Its smell inevitably is reminiscent of the dentists'!
It is also used by perfumers. You can create a wonderful home fragrance by studding an orange with cloves. This is called a "pomander". -
Tonka beans
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From €8.50Tonka beans is very fragant, gives off warm and sweet notes reminiscent of the scents of sweet almond and cut hay. A closer look reveals creamy notes of leather, wax, almond and vanilla. Some will perceive a touch of caramel, tobacco or honey.
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Nutmeg mace
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From €15.20Its smell is powerful, penetrating, hot, sweet and peppery with spikes of musk. When cooking, the peppery side develops.
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Jumbo green cardamom from Guatemala
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From €8.50Smell is powerful, in a very fresh register: eucalyptus and camphor are dominant, a strong presence of lemon and menthol evoking black seed, beautiful floral touches and aromatic herbs, mainly sage and bay leaf.
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Anise wood
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From €8.90This is the bark of a tree, like cinnamon. Strongly anise-flavoured, it is used in Madagascar as a substitute for star anise.
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