What is this stuff in the Indian restaurant?!
I was at an Indian restaurant the other day and they had this little basket on the counter filled with what looked like little red, green and yellow seeds!. A man came into the restaurant and took a pinch of it and started chewing on it!. What is this stuff!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
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It's actually a mixture known as MUKHWAS (which literally translates into breath freshner) & it aids in digestion as well!.
Mukhwas is a colorful Indian after-meal snack or digestive aid made primarily of fennel seeds, anise seeds, coconut, and sesame seeds!. They are sweet in flavor and highly aromatic due to added sugar and the addition of various essential oils, including peppermint oil!. The seeds are often also coated in sugar and brightly colored!. Plain water drunk after chewing and consuming mukhwas tastes extremely sweet!. There are lots of varieties of mukhwas!.
Occasionally, this is eaten for medicinal purposes!.
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Mukhwas is a colorful Indian after-meal snack or digestive aid made primarily of fennel seeds, anise seeds, coconut, and sesame seeds!. They are sweet in flavor and highly aromatic due to added sugar and the addition of various essential oils, including peppermint oil!. The seeds are often also coated in sugar and brightly colored!. Plain water drunk after chewing and consuming mukhwas tastes extremely sweet!. There are lots of varieties of mukhwas!.
Occasionally, this is eaten for medicinal purposes!.
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Called "sauf" in India!. It is fennel seeds!. It looks very similar to caraway but tastes different!. Some fennel seeds can be coated with colored sugar with red, green, yellow, etc!. Different Indian traditions use a different mix of fennel seeds along with other seeds in their "after dinner/dessert/tea breath freshener"!.
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It's a mixture of fennel and other seeds!. It can also include shredded betel nut, it helps you digest (betel is a stimulant)!. Quite often it is wrapped in a leaf, and the wad chewed, this lets the saliva release the chemicals from the seeds and nut as they get stuck in your teeth!.
It's an acquired taste! Www@FoodAQ@Com
It's an acquired taste! Www@FoodAQ@Com
It is sugar-coated Anise-seeds!.
In South Asia and Mid east, Anise is used as a mouth freshener in different forms!.
In Greece and Italy they make Anise flavored liquor taken after mealWww@FoodAQ@Com
In South Asia and Mid east, Anise is used as a mouth freshener in different forms!.
In Greece and Italy they make Anise flavored liquor taken after mealWww@FoodAQ@Com
It tastes like licorice!. It freshens your breath!. The texture's a bit rough, though!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
It is a mix of seeds!. Anise and cardomom are in there and maybe caraway like some one said "above"!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I agree with carlovingbio dude!. it is fennel seeds Www@FoodAQ@Com