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Turmeric

Kunyit · turmeric root

Musty, gingery, slightly bitter; used more for colour than flavour.

Cooked with in 138 dishes across 16 food worlds

The Horn · 5 dishes

North Africa · 10 dishes

East Africa and the Islands · 5 dishes

Southern Africa · 3 dishes

The Levant and Anatolia · 4 dishes

The Gulf and Arabia · 4 dishes

Persia and the Caucasus · 4 dishes

The Indian subcontinent · 42 dishes

Mainland Southeast Asia · 10 dishes

Maritime Southeast Asia · 30 dishes

Central Europe · 1 dishes

Britain and Ireland · 4 dishes

The Caribbean · 9 dishes

The Andes · 1 dishes

Amazonia · 1 dishes

Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia · 5 dishes

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