{"title":"Afghan Spice Collection","description":"All our spices sourced from Afghanistan","products":[{"product_id":"wild-mountain-cumin","title":"Wild Mountain Cumin","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur Wild Mountain Cumin has a savory, penetrating aroma and bright, umami flavor evocative of grilled meats and sweet caramelized onions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tiny, oblong black seeds are hand-picked by foragers in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan. Botanically distinct from common cumin, our Wild Mountain Cumin is renowned in Afghanistan and throughout central and south Asia for its delicious flavor as well as its medicinal properties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLooking for ground cumin seeds? \u003ca title=\"Ground Wild Mountain Cumin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.burlapandbarrel.pro\/products\/ground-wild-mountain-cumin\"\u003eYou can find them here!\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burlap \u0026 Barrel","offers":[{"title":"1.5 oz glass jar","offer_id":5173523972138,"sku":"SQ0738320","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16 oz container","offer_id":5173524463658,"sku":"SQ9410301","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2554\/1458\/files\/Wild_Mountain_Cumin.jpg?v=1741045177"},{"product_id":"herati-saffron","title":"Herati Saffron","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1510954661486_124\" data-content-field=\"excerpt\" class=\"ProductItem-details-excerpt\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur uncommonly delicate Herati Saffron threads have a beautiful delicate floral flavor, golden color and warm, honeyed fragrance reminiscent of dried roses and fresh hay. The saffron is harvested by a cooperative of farmers. They carefully pull the threads from the flower, leaving a characteristic flame-colored tail, and sun-dry them. Saffron is a key element in sweet and savory cuisines from the Mediterranean to South Asia. It adds a distinctive floral flavor and golden color to fragrant rice dishes like paella, risotto and biryani, to frozen desserts like ice cream and kulfi, and to teas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur saffron is of the highest quality, sometimes called super negin or sargol, depending on how it is harvested and graded. The slight gradation in color is your assurance that our saffron is 100% pure and never dyed or otherwise adulterated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Burlap \u0026 Barrel","offers":[{"title":"0.5 g glass mini jar","offer_id":6095784869930,"sku":"SQ9299809","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4 g glass jar","offer_id":44491025842330,"sku":"BB6000754","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"1.0 oz tin","offer_id":42145351893146,"sku":"BB1546119","price":199.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2554\/1458\/products\/HERATISAFFRON-0.5GGLASSJAR_86b30895-629f-49fd-b37d-b1cbc6843c18.jpg?v=1636150141"},{"product_id":"wild-hing","title":"Wild Hing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe blend our hing with 80% New Harvest Turmeric to prevent caking. We promise, this is way better for your cooking compared to pure hing crystals.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur Wild Hing, also known as asafoetida, is the dried sap of a mountain shrub, and its flavor is incomparable and essential to many South Indian dishes. The aroma is infamously sharp when raw, but after blooming in a little bit of oil at the beginning of the cooking process, it adds a deep, savory, allium flavor — it's a wonderful alternative to those with a sensitivity to onions and garlic. Those who cook with hing know that a little goes a long way. \u003cstrong\u003eSt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eart with 1\/8 tsp and bloom it in fat at the beginning of the cooking process.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost hing is blended with rice or wheat flour to prevent caking, but we didn't want to add grain or gluten, so we blended it with our New Harvest Turmeric, which is often used in combination with hing in cooking. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about the long and rich history of hing in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.whetstonemagazine.com\/journal\/asafoetidas-lingering-legacy-goes-beyond-aroma?utm_source=Customer%20List\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_campaign=Masalas%202.0%2C%20Indian%20Spice%20Pantry%20%28RegKB3%29\u0026amp;_kx=\"\u003ethis fantastic piece\u003c\/a\u003e that Vidya Balachander wrote for Whetstone Magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burlap \u0026 Barrel","offers":[{"title":"1.0 oz glass mini jar","offer_id":41186465939610,"sku":"BB9722277","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2554\/1458\/products\/WildHingBabyJar_1.jpg?v=1667955606"},{"product_id":"ground-wild-mountain-cumin","title":"Ground Wild Mountain Cumin","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur Ground Wild Mountain Cumin has a savory, penetrating aroma with a bright, umami depth that’s evocative of grilled meats and sweet caramelized onions. The flavor is bold and roasty, with a complexity that sets it apart from common cumin — a little goes a long way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis cumin grows wild in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan, where the tiny black seeds are hand-picked by foragers who have harvested it for generations. Botanically distinct from the cumin most cooks know, Wild Mountain Cumin is treasured across central and south Asia for both its extraordinary flavor and its traditional uses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cumin is roasted and ground in Kabul in small batches to preserve its aroma and heat. This work provides one of the few reliable income opportunities available to Afghan women and allows us to extend our impact beyond the foragers who harvest our bestselling seeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLooking for whole cumin seeds? \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.burlapandbarrel.pro\/products\/wild-mountain-cumin\" title=\"Whole Wild Mountain Cumin\"\u003eYou can find them here! \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burlap \u0026 Barrel","offers":[{"title":"20 oz container","offer_id":62504697659763,"sku":"BB9994868","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"2.4 oz glass jar","offer_id":62206044471667,"sku":"BB9994870","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2554\/1458\/files\/Ground_Wild_Mountain_Cumin.jpg?v=1762011140"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.burlapandbarrel.pro\/collections\/afghanistan.oembed","provider":"Burlap \u0026 Barrel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}