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Asafoetida has an extremely strong smell though: if you use the same amount (half teaspoon) as the other spices, it will completely overpower them. It's common
by Clewza313 6y ago
Asafoetida has an extremely strong smell though: if you use the same amount (half teaspoon) as the other spices, it will completely overpower them. It's common in Indian cooking, but the quantity typically used is a literal pinch.
- fao_ 6y agoI haven't found that to be the case when cooked. Commercial asafoetida is mixed with tumeric for colour, and rice flour to reduce it to edible porportions. Please don't use pure asafoetida, I don't know of anyone else that does that and it will just smell horrible, along with giving you stomach problems. Even forms of asafoetida you can find in non-western countries are typically mixed with rice flour.
- blodorn 6y agoPure asafoetida is fine to use, it doesn't smell bad, it doesn't give you stomach problems. You dilute it with the food you cook with it. It doesn't need it adulterated with flour and turmeric. Here is a good brand that I like, "Best Hing Ever". Hing is another name for asafoetida. https://www.pureindianfoods.com/hing-asafoetida-powder-p/hing.htm https://www.pureindianfoods.com/hing-asafoetida-powder-p/hin...
- fao_ 6y ago> Pure asafoetida is fine to use, it doesn't smell bad, it doesn't give you stomach problems. Interesting, because every single report I've heard on it has said the opposite! I don't distrust you, I'm now just wondering what causes the variation!
- s0rce 6y agoI have some commercial asafoetida and it just has some edible gum added. Its in powder form. Seems to have a smell but not really objectionable.