How to Use Cloves

Intensely aromatic, warm and pungent-sweet.

Catalogued origin is Indonesia, home to the Maluku Islands, historically known as the Spice Islands.

Here is how to cook with Cloves, with a simple infusion option too. One ingredient. Nothing added.

How to Use Cloves

Ways to use Cloves in the kitchen:

• Rice & Curries: Whole Cloves
• Mulled Wine: Studded
• Baking: Cakes & Buns
• Braises & Stocks: Infuse

Tips

• Storage: Keep sealed and dry, away from heat and light.
• In the kitchen: Studded into mulled wine and braised meats, ground into cakes and buns, added whole to rice and curries, and infused into stocks.

Tasting Notes

Intensely sweet and warm with deep aromatic oils - a few whole cloves flavour a whole pot.

• Intensely Sweet: Strength: Very Intense
• Warm: Form: Whole Cloves
• Deep: Use: A Little Goes Far
• Aromatic: Colour: Deep Brown
• Pungent: Best In: Curries & Mulled Wine
• Lingering: Origin: Sri Lanka