Description
►Asafoetida or hing makes for an indispensable part of the Indian cuisine, especially in curries and dals. This can be a latex gum extracted from more than a few species of a perennial herb known as ferula. Its distinct flavour and aroma can turn out to be any boring dish.
► English : Devil’s dung Persian : Angustha-Gandha French : Ferule Asafoetida German : Stinkendessteckenkraut Arabic : Tyib, Haltheeth Sinhalese : PerumkayamHindi : Hing Bengali : Hing Gujarati : Hing Kannada : Hinger,Ingu Kashmiri : Yang, Sap Malayalam : Kayam Marathi : Hing Oriya : Hengu Punjabi : Hing Sanskrit : Badhika, Agudagandhu Tamil : Perungayam Telugu : Inguva, Ingumo Urdu : Hing
►This herbal spice makes an amazing anti-ageing agent. Asafoetida can be mixed with rose water and fuller’s earth to form an effective anti-wrinkle face mask.
►Thus, you’ll flaunt a blemish-free and radiant with using Asafoetida face masks largely.
►Asafoetida might be just the magic ingredient that you were missing in your skin care regimen till now.
►Asafoetida improves your hair.
Asafoetida is the dried latex (gum oleoresin) exuded from the living underground rhizome or tap root of several species of Ferula (three of which grow in India), which is a perennial herb (1 to 1.5 mtr. High).Asafoetida has a pungent smell, thus its trivial name stinking gum, but in cooked dishes it delivers a smooth flavour reminiscent of leeks. It is sometimes called food of the gods, devil’s dung, jowanibadian, hing, hengu, inguva, kayam, and ting
Asafetida odour and flavour develop into much milder and much less pungent upon heating in oil or ghee. On occasion, it is fried in conjunction with sautéed onion and garlic. It is On occasion used to harmonize sweet, sour, salty, and spicy components in food. The spice is added to the food at the time of tempering. On occasion dried and ground asafoetida (in very small quantities) can be mixed with salt and eaten with raw salad
Many commercial preparations of asafoetida use the resin ground up and mixed with a larger volume of other neutral ingredients, such as gum arabic, wheat flour, rice flour and turmeric. The mixture is sold in sealed plastic containers with a hole that allows direct dusting of the powder.
Asafoetida is extensively used for flavouring curries, sauces, and pickles.
It has a prominent place in traditional medicine; thanks to its carminative properties. Considering its therapeutic and curative powers, asafoetida is also referred to as the Food of the Gods and a couple of more, such names are an attribute to its never-ending health and beauty benefits it offers upon consumption.
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