Know your Herbs and Spices

We use herbs and spices a lot in Trinidad. They flavour many of our favourite dishes. 

Herbs are plants whose leaves can be used ​plant whose ​leaves are used in ​cooking to give ​flavour to ​particular ​dishes or in making ​medicine: a ​type of ​plant whose ​leaves are used in ​cooking to give ​flavour to ​particular ​dishes or in making ​medicinea ​type of ​plant whose ​leaves are used in ​cooking to give ​flavour to ​particular ​dishes or in making ​medicinea ​type of ​plant whose ​leaves are used in ​cooking to give ​flavour to ​particular ​dishes or in making ​medicinefresh or dried in cooking to give flavour to particular dishes or in making medicine.  

Most fresh herbs should be added near the end of cooking or sprinkled over the completed dish to avoid losing their flavours whereas dried herbs can be cooked for much longer.

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Spices are the flowers, fruit, seeds, bark, and roots typically of tropical plants used for flavour or medicinal purposes. 

Most spices are dried before use and can be used whole or ground. 

The Kitchn has quite an article on and an extensive listing on herbs and spices check it out.

Which herbs and spices do you use regularly?