Chinese five spice powder is an essential spice in many recipes. If you have no dietary limitations, it is certainly easiest to purchase it from your local grocery store. However, if you are on a FODMAP diet, you will need to make your own. Five spice powder is made from cinnamon, cloves, star anise, pepper, and fennel, and fennel is off limits. However, you can just substitute the fennel with anise seed. Yes, this makes it a four spice powder, but it works just fine!
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon anise seed
1 teaspoons ground star anise (grind the entire "star")
1 teaspoon ground pepper
1. It is best to use the freshest spices. If possible, grind each spice in a coffee grinder separately, mix the proper amounts together, and then grind altogether one last time.
2. Store in a cool dry place in an airtight container.
2 comments:
Fennel is not a problem according to Montash the experts. Just wasted money ordering separate spices to find out this incorrect info. Please check out stuff before misinforming people like myself. Wasted money I can ill afford.
In Chinese five spice the fennel used is seeds, which is low fodmap.
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