Listing
description
Mustard seeds are the small round seeds of various mustard plants. The seeds are usually about 1 to 2
millimetres (0.039 to 0.079 in) in diameter and may be colored from
yellowish white to black.
Detailed
description
They are important herbs in many regional
foods and may come from one of three different plants: black mustard (Brassica nigra), brown Indian mustard (B. juncea), or white mustard
(B. hirta/Sinapis alba).
History
In the New Testament of the Christian
Bible, the mustard seed is used by Jesus in the parable of the
mustard seed as a model for the
kingdom of God which initially starts small, but grows to be the biggest of all
garden plants. Faith is also spoken about in the context of a mustard seed.
The earliest reference to mustard is in India from a
story of Gautama Buddha in the fifth century
BC. Gautama Buddha told the story of the grieving mother (Kisa Gotami) and the
mustard seed. When a mother loses her only son, she takes his body to the
Buddha to find a cure. The Buddha asks her to bring a handful of mustard seeds
from a family that has never lost a child, husband, parent, or friend. When the
mother is unable to find such a house in her village, she realizes death is
common to all, and she cannot be selfish in her grief. The Buddha stated that if an
individual were to pick a single mustard seed every hundred years from a
seven-mile cube worth of mustard seeds, then by the time the last seed is
picked, the age of the world cycle would still continue. (If a mustard seed is
3 mm in diameter, then taking one seed every 100 years from a seven-mile
cube of seeds, would take 936 quintillion years, 68 billion times the age of the universe.)
Jewish texts compare the knowable universe to the
size of a mustard seed to demonstrate the world's insignificance and to teach
humility.[8]The Jewish
philosopher Nahmanides mentions
the universe expanded from the time of its creation, in which it was the size
of a mustard seed.[9]
Regional usage
Raai (Gujarati),Mohari (Marathi: मोहरी ), aavalu (Telugu: ఆవాలు), kadugu (Tamil: கடுகு), or sasive (Kannada:ಸಾಸಿವೆ), kadugu (Malayalam: കടുക്) variety of Indian pickle consisting mainly of mangoes, red chilli powder,
and aavaa pindi (powdered mustard seed) preserved in
mustard oil, is popular in southern India with its origin in Andhra Pradesh.
These mustard seeds are known in Hindi/Urdu as sarson (Indian colza, Brassica rapa subsp. trilocularis, syn. Brassica campestris var. sarson),[10] in Bengali as shorshe and in Punjabi as sarron. These are used as a
spice in Northern India and Nepal. The seeds are usually roasted until they
pop. They are also planted to grow saag (greens) which are stir-fried and
eaten as a vegetable preparation, sarson ka saag (sarron
da saag in Punjabi).
In Maharashtra, it is called as mohair, and is used frequently
in Maharani's recipes. Sarson
ka tel (mustard oil) is used
for body massage during extreme winters, as it is assumed to keep the body
warm. In Bengali cuisine mustard oil or shorsher tel is the predominant ccoking medium.
Mustard seeds are also essential ingredients in spicy fish dishes like jhaal and paturi.
PRICE
$19.96/KG OR $9.07/IB
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