Spice Kitchen – African & Middle East Tin

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Our beautiful African and Middle Eastern Spice Tin gives you everything you need to create both modern-day and traditional dishes.

What’s more, our African and Middle Eastern Tin is the perfect all-year-round gift for budding home cooks and experienced chefs who wish to recreate authentic Middle Eastern meals at home. Especially popular with those looking to find a gift for those ‘difficult to buy for’ men in their lives. Give them the perfect unique gift for any and every occasion.

Why you’ll love it

• Free recipe guide with lots of quick and easy dishes as well as our family favourites

• Handmade in the UK with love

• Every time you buy a spice tin, you are helping to ensure a schoolchild receives a nutritious meal in the UK and India

• Spice blends are made fresh in small batches here in the UK

• A great gift for the budding foodie or an experienced chef!

• Carefully packaged to ensure no bumps and dents along the way

• Looks gorgeous in your kitchen

Spice Kitchen is:

• Family-owned, family-run

• Ethically sourced

• Handmade

You will receive

• Fenugreek. With hints of toasted maple, this adds both sweet and delicately bitter notes to stews and curries. Common throughout kitchens of the Middle East and North Africa

• Baharat. A rich, earthy Middle Eastern Spice mix combining allspice, black peppercorns, cardamon, cassia, cloves, coriander, cumin, nutmeg and paprika. Great to rub into meat as a marinade, especially lamb and chicken

• Berbere. One of the building blocks of Ethiopian Cuisine, combining dried red chilli, garlic, ginger, basil, cumin, nigella, caraway and fenugreek. Gives an amazing kick to stews and as a meat rub

• Ras el Hanout. A deep, warming spice mix used throughout North Africa, combining cumin, coriander, cinnamon, ginger, black pepper, turmeric and cardamon. Perfect to give depth to tagines

• Sumac. A beautifully tangy, vibrant spice with amazingly fresh citrus notes. Very versatile, can be used to garnish salads, hummus, or as a rub for meat and works brilliantly with fish

• Za’atar. The King of Middle Eastern spice mixes. A fragrant combination of oregano, marjoram, sumac, salt and SESAME seeds

• Harissa. A fiery North African chilli mix with dried red chilli, garlic, coriander, paprika and caraway. Great mixed with olive oil to make dressings for salads and couscous or as a marinade for meat

• Pul Biber/Aleppo Pepper. Grown in Syria and Turkey, these dried chilli flakes add a hint of cherry-like fruitiness to dressings and marinades. Mild heat, slight saltiness

• Urfa Biber. A dried Turkish pepper with a deep raisin, smoky flavour. Fantastic to rub into lamb or sprinkle over hummus

Features and benefits

• Blends are freshly made in small batches and then sealed for optimum freshness and flavour

• Outer storage tin is 19cm stainless steel with a perspex lid to ensure freshness

• Seven removable smaller tins for convenience and a small metal spoon for accurate dispensing

• Selected and mixed the old-fashioned way

• Refills available at affordable prices, in varying quantities

• No additives, artificial flavouring or preservatives: just a quality guarantee from our family to yours

• Ideal gift for yourself or anyone who loves African and Middle Eastern cuisine or who is looking to get started

• Perfect as a gift for Christmas, Birthdays, Valentines, or Father’s/Mother’s Day. The chef (or aspiring chef!) in your life will be forever grateful

• Durable stainless steel Indian spice tin for use and for storage and display. The ribbed lid helps to retain the freshness of the spices, and the tin is also dishwasher safe

Spice Kitchen is delighted to be partnering with The Akshaya Patra Foundation, who are doing incredible work in helping to feed school children in India, as well as those affected by homelessness in the UK.

When you buy a Spice Kitchen spice tin or set, we will donate a % of the money to help fight malnourishment and end the poverty cycle forever.

Find out more about the incredible work of The Akshaya Patra Foundation at www.tapf.org.uk