Across
- 3. Soaking this in water and drinking it helps with period pains
- 5. The spice that turns a regular meal into a fire-breathing contest
- 8. The king of spices. Crush this and mix in milk with turmeric if you have a cold
- 10. Super common spice blend used by everyone
- 11. A dried whole spice that you cook but you can't eat because they're almost like leaves
- 12. Something in the classifieds page that makes absolutely no sense
Down
- 1. This can stain your fingernails, your clothes and even your face... but it has antibacterial properties (so you should be fine)
- 2. Green things used for tempering with mustard seeds
- 4. One spoon of this 'podi' packs all the flavour for any vegetable
- 6. Black seeds so small that it can spill and there's no picking them back up
- 7. Comes with another spice in the same tree but tends to have an identity crisis.. sometimes
- 9. The queen of spices