Five-spice powder

Five-spice powder in the middle and the unground ingredients on the outside. Clockwise from top: fennel, star anise, Szechuan pepper, cloves, cinnamon.

The five spice powder ( Chinese  五香粉 , Pinyin wǔxiāngfěn , English Five Spice , vietn. (Bột) Ngũ vị hương ) is an Asian spice mixture, made up of the following 5 ingredients:

1. Real star anise
2. Szechuan pepper ("Japanese pepper")
3. Cinnamon cassia
4. fennel
5. Clove

The ingredients are ground together and used, for example, to marinate meat, poultry or fish. The star anise provides the strongest flavor in the mix. Variations can also contain other spices such as green cardamom or ginger .

Web links

Commons : Five Spice Powder  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Alan Eaton Davidson : The Oxford Companion to Food . Ed .: Tom Jaine. 3. Edition. Oxford University Press , New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-104072-6 , keyword “five spices” .