[Sca-cooks] Is this nigella?

[HK Hill]

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:

>>Perhaps someone could describe what nigella seeds look like and I can 
>>verify this from that? The web photo I found was inconclusive. I may 
>>just have to take this to a local Cook's Guild meeting and see if 
>>someone there knows what these are.
> 
> 
> Hmm. there's a picture on Gernot Katzer's spice pages 
> (http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/)
> 
> They are dark black, smaller than fennel or anise. The distinctive part 
> is that they are sort of sharp cornered. Not as sharp as, say, cardamom, 
> but definitely triangulate as one of the sources says. If you can find 
> armenian string cheese where you are, compare the seeds in it to what 
> you've got.
> 


What does nigella taste like, and in what cuisine are they used? I've 
never heard of these.


Katrzhyn Medvyedka