Spices for snacks and tea time
Spiced nuts, crisps, fritters, chaat and everything eaten between meals.
Snacks are where spice is often most playful, with crisp, salty, sour and hot flavours coated in seasoning mixes made to eat between meals.
Savoury snacks
Indian chaat uses chaat masala, with black salt, amchur and cumin. Mexican snacks use chilli and lime, as with tajin on fruit. Japanese rice crackers use shichimi and nori, and North American popcorn and chips use paprika, onion, garlic and cheese powder.
Nuts and seeds
Roasted nuts and seeds are coated in spice mixes from many places, such as dukkah in Egypt, masala peanuts in India and chilli-lime peanuts in Mexico.
Tea time
Tea-time snacks, such as samosas, pakoras, scones and biscuits, bring spice to the afternoon. Cardamom biscuits, ginger cake and spiced fritters are typical.
Snacks and tea time on EveryMasala
The spices written up so far, best known first.
馃嚥馃嚱 Mexico and 1 moreChipotle
Smoke-dried ripe jalape帽o peppers used in Mexican and Tex-Mex cookingChilli 路 Hot and fiery 路 Smoky
馃嚬馃嚪 TurkeyUrfa biber
A sun-dried and night-wrapped chili from Turkey with a smoky, raisin-like taste.Chilli 路 Smoky 路 Sweet and mellow
馃嚭馃嚫 United States and 1 moreChimay贸 pepper
A prized New Mexico chile cultivar known for its sweet, smoky flavor and twisted dried pods.Chilli 路 Sweet and mellow 路 Smoky
馃嚥馃嚱 MexicoChile de 谩rbol
A small, fiery Mexican chili pepper known for its grassy heat and bright red dried pods.Chilli 路 Hot and fiery 路 Smoky
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Chimay贸 pepper: Dicklyon, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Chipotle: User:Carstor, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Chile de 谩rbol: Cliff Hutson, CC BY 2.0, source
- Urfa biber: Fornax, CC BY-SA 3.0, source