Cardamom, Decorticated (ilaichi)

Decorticated cardamom is the seeds from within the actual cardamom pod. This means that you don't have to crack the pods. Instead simply grind as needed. Cardamom is a common ingredient in Indian cooking. It is also often used in baking in the Nordic countries, in particular in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where it is used in traditional treats such as the Scandinavian Jule bread Julekake, the Swedish kardemummabullar sweet bun, and Finnish sweet bread pulla. In the Middle East, green cardamom powder is used as a spice for sweet dishes, as well as traditional flavouring in coffee and tea. Cardamom is used to a wide extent in savoury dishes. In some Middle Eastern countries, coffee and cardamom are often ground in a wooden mortar, a mihbaj, and cooked together in a skillet, a mehmas, over wood or gas, to produce mixtures as much as 40% cardamom.  Cardamom has a strong, unique taste, with an intensely aromatic, resinous fragrance. In Asia, both green and black cardamom are widely used in