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title: "8 Essential Spices for Indian Cooking"  
description: "One of the things that people find intimidating about cooking Indian food is the vast array of spices used, here's 8 of the most used spices"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-11-11  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1542/8-essential-spices-for-indian-cooking  
category: "food"  
tags: ["Spices", "home", "kitchen", "homemade spices", "home kitchen", "Indian spices"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# 8 Essential Spices for Indian Cooking

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