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10 Easy Curry Recipes

Featured, Understanding Spices

When you’re planning meals, sometimes it can be difficult to think of recipes which tick all three categories: easy, healthy and taste good. If you need some inspiration, why not...

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Taste Awards 2021

Featured, News

We are pleased to announce that the following products have been awarded a Great Taste award 2021. The largest and most trusted food and drink awards on the planet, we...

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10 Essential Ingredients in Thai Cooking

Featured, Understanding Spices

Thai cuisine is known for its complex flavours and mix of sour, sweet, bitter and salty. If you’re looking to cook more Thai dishes at home, the first thing you...

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The Best Food Gifts for Foodies

Featured, Understanding Spices

The good news keeps on coming here at Seasoned Pioneers. After six of our products won at the Great Taste Awards 2020 (one of the highest awards in the food...

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Seasoned Pioneers & BBC Maestro Giveaway

News

It’s no secret that herbs and spices are essential ingredients in Indian cuisine. If you love Indian food and want to learn to cook it at home, we have the...

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PRIME Hydration Drink – Competition!

News

PRIME hydration has been sweeping the UK in recent weeks and has been difficult to find on the shelves of mainstream UK supermarkets. The drink PRIME was created by Logan...

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Mowgli Street Food by Nisha Katona

Mowgli Street Food By Nisha Katona Back in 2014, Nisha Katona made a huge career change, switching roles from barrister to restaurant owner. Her dream was to serve the sort...

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How To Make A Christmas Charcuterie Board

Seasonal Ideas

A DIY charcuterie board makes the perfect table centrepiece this Christmas. The great thing about it is that you can experiment and tailor it to your taste. There’s no right...

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7 Tasty Christmas Appetiser Ideas

Seasonal Ideas

1.  Bread sauce and stuffing croquettes This recipe from Olive Magazine is one of our favourites as you don’t have to go out of your way to make any extra...

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Last order dates for Christmas 2022

News

We want to make sure we do everything we can to get your Christmas gifts & ingredients to you in time. Order by the dates below to guarantee that we...

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How To Make Mulled Wine and Other Christmas Drinks

Seasonal Ideas

How To Make Mulled Wine The temperatures have dropped, the days are getting shorter and the decorations have gone up. That can only mean one thing: it’s officially mulled wine...

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What Is A Spice?

Understanding Spices

What Is A Spice? We can all agree that food without spices would be rather boring. Spices give aroma, flavour, colour and sometimes even texture to many of our favourite...

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Best Herbs And Spices For Stir Fry

Understanding Spices

Best Herbs And Spices For Stir Fry Who doesn’t love a stir fry? Not only are they quick and easy to make, but they’re also a delicious way to get...

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Best Herbs And Spices For Chilli Con Carne

Understanding Spices

Smoked paprika Smoked paprika is an essential spice in any chilli recipe. This is a Spanish speciality made by smoking pimentón (a type of pepper from La Vera in western...

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Best Herbs And Spices For Chicken Dishes

Understanding Spices

When it comes to meats, cooking with chicken is great because it’s so versatile. Frying, baking, grilling, sauteing, boiling and roasting are just some of the ways you can prepare...

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Best Foods For Menopause

Health and Wellbeing

Menopause is a natural phase in a woman’s life. It marks the end of menstrual cycles and is diagnosed 12 months after a woman’s last period. Menopause brings about many...

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Aleppo Pepper Uncovered

Understanding Spices

What is Aleppo pepper? Named after the Syrian city of Aleppo, you’ll also find this chilli going by the name of pul biber, Halaby pepper or Turkish red pepper flakes....

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Why a comprehensive spice range matters

Trade

Why a comprehensive spice range matters Is there anything more dispiriting than trudging down the same old local supermarket aisle week in, week out, to find the same old plain...

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5 Best Sauce Recipes For Barbecuing

Seasonal Ideas

Barbecue season is well and truly here. Having people round and want to make sure the grill will be packed with big, bold flavours? We’ll let you in on a...

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10 Easy Curry Recipes

Featured, Understanding Spices

When you’re planning meals, sometimes it can be difficult to think of recipes which tick all three categories: easy, healthy and taste good. If you need some inspiration, why not...

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8 Popular Sandwiches Around The World

In honour of British Sandwich Week, we’re celebrating not just British sandwiches, but sandwiches from all around the world. Join us on a trip to South America, Asia, Africa and...

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British Sandwich Week 2022

What is British Sandwich Week? Each year, British Sandwich Week is celebrated across the UK. This year, the humble sandwich in all its glory will be celebrated between 22nd May...

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Spices Used When Cooking Or Smoking Trout

Understanding Spices

We have been asked a few times what are the best spices to use when cooking or smoking fresh trout so we though the following blog post would be helpful....

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How to cook trout

Trout are a species of mainly freshwater fish, although there are some which are salt-water dwellers such as sea trout, and some which have a fin in both waters, such...

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Retro food is back in vogue!

News

Nostalgia has crept into our food culture with a surge in popularity of the dishes we loved in the 1970s. There is no doubt that some of them are probably...

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Truly Original Wedding Favours

Seasonal Ideas

Splice it with Spice – Wedding Favours Bespoke wedding favours will add that 'extra something' to your wedding celebrations! Unconventional and innovative, our spice tins filled with authentic Cajun Spice...

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5 Essential Ingredients In Ukrainian Cooking

With its long agricultural tradition, rich dark soil and expansive fields of produce, Ukraine has gained the nickname ‘the breadbasket of Europe’. With its bountiful harvests, it makes sense that...

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Top 10 Ukrainian dishes to try

Spicy Adventures

You’ve probably heard of chicken Kyiv and borscht, but what about varenyky or deruni? Ukrainian cuisine has had many influences over the centuries, whether that’s neighbouring countries, climate conditions or...

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How To Pickle Vegetables At Home

Understanding Spices

What is quick pickling? If you think that pickling vegetables is a long, drawn-out process that will take you all weekend, think again. Quick pickling is actually very easy (hence...

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Best Herbs And Spices For Digestion

Understanding Spices

Your gut plays a large role in your general health and wellbeing, and the foods you eat can have a direct impact on your gut’s bacteria, or microbiome. Good bacteria...

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South American Chilli Powders

Understanding Spices

Most Popular South American Chillies Up until Christopher Columbus made his way to the New World in 1492, chillies were relatively unknown to the rest of the world. He didn’t...

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Chilli (Chillies) Health Benefits

Understanding Spices

Is Chilli Good for You? Did you know that chillies give us more than flavour? We all know that spices, seasonings and chillies are used worldwide to create a huge...

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Saffron spice

Understanding Spices

Often referred to as ‘red gold’, saffron is one of the most expensive and prized spices in the world. It’s made from the stigmas of the crocus sativus flower, commonly...

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Picnic Season Starts!

Seasonal Ideas

As Brits we love when the weather starts to get warmer. Even more so when we can eat al fresco without our coats and extra layers on! A picnic in...

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10 Best Plant Based Milks

Health and Wellbeing

The popularity of plant based milks have skyrocketed over the past decade. More and more people are choosing plant based milks over dairy for many different reasons. Whether it’s for...

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Best Foods for Gut Health

Health and Wellbeing

What you eat directly impacts the bacteria in your gut, also known as the microbiome. Your gut plays a huge role in your health and wellbeing — not only does...

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Best And Worst Cheeses For Mac & Cheese

Spicy Adventures

Mac and cheese is much more than an instant student meal. When done right, homemade mac and cheese is a delightfully indulgent comfort meal. Not only is it easy to...

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10 Popular South American Sauces and Dips

Spicy Adventures

Sauces and dips are important in recipes as they maximise flavours and add juiciness and colour to dishes. South American sauces and dips are particularly delicious, with rich flavours and...

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All About Miso

Understanding Spices

What is miso? Miso means ‘fermented beans’ in Japanese. It’s a fermented paste which adds a savoury, umami-rich flavour to all kinds of dishes. It’s an essential ingredient in Japanese...

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10 Best One-Pot Recipes

Spicy Adventures

Sometimes, all you need is a simple, no-fuss recipe for those moments when you don’t feel like getting all the different pots and pans out. One-pot recipes are a saviour...

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Welcome to our spice blog. Seasoned Pioneers has been manufacturing spice blends and mixes for over 20 years and are based in the UK.  So hopefully we know a little about spices! This spice blog was formally known as “The Knowledge” but rebranded in the 2020’s to “Blog” in the hope we can connect with more spice lovers. As you browse through our spice blog you will find lots of information about spices and ingredients, how to use them and why. Learn about their history and origins. 

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