Whole cloves - Alfa Katsifa - 40g jar
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Whole cloves - Alfa Katsifa - 40g jar

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Spicy and fragrant with a red-brown color. The flavor is strong and spicy. 

We use it to perfume the dishes like giouvetsi, pastitsio, moussaka.

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Cloves is the dried unopened flower bud of the evergreen plant Syzygium aromaticum. 

It is spicy and fragrant and has a red-brown color. The flavor is strong and spicy. 

Of all the spices cloves has the most penetrating, bitter and astringent taste leaving in the mouth a tingling sensation. 

It comes from the Molucca Islands of Indonesia. Now cultivated mainly in Zanzibar and Madagascar. 

The english word "cloves" cames from the French word "clou" meaning nail. The first references to cloves come from the Han period in China. 

When discovered in Indonesia, all were enchanted by the fragrance and beauty of the tropical tree, which played an important role in the economy of those places and 

their history. Cloves is widely used in Greek cuisine. 

It is an ingredient in many blends such as garam masala, in salad dressings and ketsup.

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