Five-spice powder
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Five-spice powder is a spice mixture of five or more spices—commonly star anise, cloves, Chinese cinnamon, Sichuan pepper, and fennel seeds—used predominantly in almost all branches of Chinese cuisine
Five-spice powder
A common mix for ground five-spice powder (center) is (clockwise from top left) cinnamon, fennel seeds, star anise, Sichuan peppercorns and cloves.
Sichuan pepper
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Sichuan pepper is a spice made from the dried pericarp of a plant of the genus Zanthoxylum in the family Rutaceae. It is commonly used in Sichuan cuisine of China and in the cuisines of the Himalayas.
Five-spice powder
…Five-spice powder (Chinese: 五香粉; pinyin: wǔxiāng fěn) is a spice mixture of five or more spices—commonly star anise, cloves, Chinese cinnamon, Sichuan pepper, and fennel seeds—used predominantly in almost all branches of Chinese cuisine. The five flavors of the spices reflect the five traditional Chinese…
Sichuan pepper
Newly harvested Sichuan pepper (known locally as 大红袍花椒, dà hóng páo huā jiāo "big red coat huajiao"), left out to dry in the sun, Linxia County, Gansu Province, in Northwest China
A handful of green Sichuan peppercorn
Chengdu-style mala hotpot with heavy use of Sichuan pepper