Our Giza Green Fenugreek seeds are an exceptional, slightly sweet, vegetal variety grown by a family of farmers in an ancient agricultural community in Fayoum, Egypt, on the Nile River floodplain. Most fenugreek is yellow, but ours is green and intense, showing another side of this ingredient that has been used in dishes since ancient times.
Bloom these seeds in oil with other whole spices like cumin, coriander, chilis and turmeric at the start of cooking, or add to bread doughs for an herbal, nuanced flavor unlike anything else. Fenugreek is also the essential ingredient in hilbe, a Yemeni paste that accompanies soups and breads.
Highlights
Fayoum Oasis, Egypt
Sun-dried
Green fenugreek seeds (Trigonella foenum-graecum v. Giza green)
Parsley • Green Almond • Maple Syrup
Wild Mountain Cumin, Red River Coriander, New Harvest Turmeric
Cooking tips
- Add to bread or biscuit dough
- Bloom in oil with other spices at the start of cooking
- Grind to make a paste for hilbe
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Our Giza Green Fenugreek is grown by an extended family of farmers in an ancient agricultural community in central Egypt, on the Nile River floodplain, where spices have been cultivated for many, many years.
We connected with the farmers through our partnership with Zaid of Norwich Meadows Farm. Every year, Zaid works with a crew of highly skilled Egyptian farmers who come to his farm in upstate New York to grow organic vegetables using a specific system of high tunnels and intercropping. The vegetables that Zaid grows with this group of farmers are stunning, and these same farmers have their own farms in Egypt, where they grow ancient varietals of desert-adapted spices that rely on seasonal flooding from the Nile River as the primary source of water. Their farms produce this and our other Egyptian spices.
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I never thought I could get fenugreek in the US that would smell or taste like anything much at all until I tried this. The smell in the jar is intoxicating and the flavor reminds me of cooking with my bibi. I ferment weekly batches of dosa batter with B&B fenugreek and I'm running low. Please keep stocking this amazing spice!
Looking forward to ordering more spices. Love love love! I always love trying different spices And the spices don't disappoint. I have even shared them with my friends.
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