Herbies Spices | Al Fresco Dining Kit

Our Australian lifestyle allows us to be outdoors for most of the year, and from our experience, most entertaining at home involves minimum-effort, maximum-flavour, barbecue-based food. Al-fresco dining can range from a picnic in your backyard to a romantic candle-lit dinner for two. The feeling of eating outside is wonderful – try having fresh herbs in your garden to pick there and then when serving food. If you don’t have a barbecue, these dishes are easy to be cooked inside using your oven or stove and taken outside to enjoy the atmosphere.

Spice Kit Contains

• Sazon Seasoning

  • A Latin American seasoning used to add flavour to Hispanic cooking.  Description & Use: Sazon (Spanish for Season) is an all-purpose Hispanic seasoning. Use for barbecues, roast vegetables, pulled pork, or to season haloumi. Treat as a general all-purpose seasoning, to sprinkle on food before, or even after cooking.
    
    Blended and packed in Australia from imported and local ingredients.
     
    Contains: cumin seed, annatto seed, coriander seed, sea salt, garlic, paprika, black pepper, onion, Mexican oregano, allspice, epazote

• Chinese Five Spice

  • A traditional blend of spices that enhances the flavour of Asian dishes and duck.
    Description & Use: Chinese Five Spice powder is a classic blend of spices that compliments Chinese and stir-fry dishes, grilled and roasted meats. Essential for making San Choy Bow.  Add 1 tablespoon of spice blend to 1 kg pork mince with ginger, peas and peanuts. Season with soy sauce and serve in lettuce cups.
    
    Blended and packed in Australia from imported ingredients. 
    
    Contains: Star anise, fennel seed, cassia, pepper, cloves

• Chipotle Chilli Powder

  • Deliciously smokey, chipotle chilli is a great substitute for ham in vegetarian soups.
    Description & Use: There are literally hundreds of different chillies, all of which descend from the original ones discovered by the Spanish when they found the Americas. Prior to this chillies were unknown to the rest of the world. The warming bite and delicious capsicum taste of chilli was warmly embraced by nearly every nation on earth, thus we find some form of capsicum or chilli in nearly every cuisine. Dried chillies have a very different flavour to fresh ones, as upon drying a caramelization of the sugars takes place which creates a delicious, robust taste not found in fresh chillies, in the same way a sun-dried tomato has a more complex flavour profile than a fresh one.
    Chipotle Chillies: Are a delicious smoked, dried jalapeno. Use in soups, stews and casseroles. Vegetarians find them an excellent substitute for ham in vegetable soup. May be used as a substitute for Merken chilli powder used in Chilean cooking.
    
    Produce of Mexico packed in Australia.
    
    Heat Level: 6 out of 10

• Umami Spice Mix

  • Umami Seasoning adds the fifth taste element to food.
    Description & Use: After sweet, sour, salt and bitter, Umami is the fifth taste that conveys savoury, flavour-enhancing attributes to food.
    Use in risotto and as a substitute for truffles, add to soups, stews and casseroles. Delicious rubbed onto pork fillet and steaks before cooking on the barbecue.
    
    Blended and packed in Australia from imported and local ingredients.
    
    Contains: Porcini mushroom powder, black garlic powder, sweet paprika, tomato powder, South Australian sea salt, onion, garlic

• Nasi Goreng Spice Mix

  • A convenient dry spice blend for making Nasi Goreng.
    Description & Use: Add to fried rice for a Nasi Goreng flavour (recipe on pack). To make a sambal paste, mix one measure of Nasi Goreng spice mix with an equal quantity of water. Add half a measure of oil and stir until blended. Keep refrigerated or use at once.
    
    Blended and packed in Australia from imported and local ingredients. 
    
    Contains: Chilli, garlic, salt, chilli flakes medium, sugar, amchur (mango), galangal, ginger.
    Heat Level: 6 out of 10 

• Rose Harissa Spice Mix

  • Based on a  Tunisian blend that may be rubbed on food before cooking, or made into a fragrant, spicy paste.
    Description & Use: Rose Harissa is fragrant, and not quite as hot as the fiery traditional Tunisian Harissa paste, made predominantly from red-hot chillies and used as an accompaniment to a wide variety of foods, in much the same way as the Italians use pestou, the Asians chilli sauce and the Indians their lime pickles.
    Make as much Rose Harissa paste as you need at a time by simply mixing Herbie’s Spices Rose Harissa mix with an equal amount of water, then just enough oil to create the consistency you desire. Delicious with North African rice and cous cous dishes, on cold meat sandwiches instead of mustard, and with hommos on crusty bread. Lovers of spiced yet fragrant dishes adore Harissa sprinkled onto meats as a dry marinade before cooking.
    
    Blended and packed in Australia from imported and local ingredients. 
    
    Contains: Red Chilli Flakes, Garlic, Mild Paprika, Rose Petals, Caraway Seed, Coriander Seed, Smoked Sweet Paprika, Cumin, Sea Salt, Mint.
    Heat Level: 6 out of 10

With additional recipes for

• Chicken Maryland with Quinoa Salad
• Steak Salad with Wilted Greens, Lime and Avocado
• Sticky Pork with Nasi Goreng
• Slow Roasted Harissa Lamb with Loaded Harissa Hommus
• Spiced Seafood Platter: (Sambal Prawns, Five-Spice Squid, Fish Kebabs, Oysters with Chipotle Vinaigrette)