Baraka Cardamom

Lightly crush the pods before using to release their essential oils. Add them to chai, coffee, rice dishes, curries, biryanis, syrups, poached fruit, and baked goods, or grind the seeds fresh for cookies, cakes, cinnamon rolls, and homemade spice blends. The pods can also be steeped whole to gently infuse milk, cream, or tea.

Whole cardamom pods are one of the most versatile whole spices in the pantry. They're used to infuse flavor into teas, coffee, curries, rice dishes, desserts, and baked goods. For the brightest flavor, crack the pods just before cooking, or remove the seeds and grind them fresh. Whole pods retain their fragrance far longer than pre-ground cardamom, making them well worth keeping on hand.

Absolutely. Freshly ground cardamom brings incredible depth to cardamom cookies, cakes, cinnamon rolls, muffins, pastries, and shortbread. It pairs beautifully with vanilla, citrus, chocolate, pears, apples, pistachios, and other warm baking spices, adding a bright floral note that makes familiar recipes feel extraordinary.

Cardamom has been used in South Asian cooking and traditional practices for generations and contains naturally occurring antioxidant compounds. We love it for its remarkable flavor first and foremost, since a little freshly ground cardamom can completely transform both sweet and savory dishes with its bright, floral aroma.

Our farm partners have been cultivating spices using practices that go "beyond organic" for well over five years. Although they haven't obtained USDA certification yet, this is primarily because the initial certification can be costly and may lead to cycles of debt. To meet USDA standards, four years of inspections and certificates are required after the first certification. However, we consider this process redundant and unnecessary since we conduct thorough testing on every batch we procure. It's a prerequisite for Diaspora Co. to select farm partners whose soil health and agricultural practices align with our internal standards of growing food regeneratively.

Most of the spices are good 2 years from the mill date, which is listed on the harvest label sticker on the jar or bag. That being said, our spices are extremely potent and fresh as we take incredible care to source yearly and aim for quality, so 2 years is our most conservative guideline, compared to most spices in the grocery store which are often 5-10 years old upon purchase.

We do! You can search for our wholesalers using our store locator here. And if you are a wholesaler and don’t see yourself on the locator, please email wholesale@diasporaco.com and we will add you to this ASAP! Thank you!

Store them in an airtight container in a dark, dry place. Do not store spices in direct sunlight, as this will shorten their shelf life.