Wild Hing Spice from Burlap & Barrel
Wild Hing before mixing, from Burlap & Barrel
Wild Hing scrub.
Wild Hing plant with roots.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Wild Hing Spice from Burlap & Barrel
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Wild Hing before mixing, from Burlap & Barrel
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Wild Hing scrub.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Wild Hing plant with roots.

Spice Wild Hing (Afghanistan) - Jar

Vendor
Burlap & Barrel
Regular price
$9.99
Sale price
$9.99
Regular price
Sold out
Unit price
per 
Shipping calculated at checkout.

EW from Burlap & Barrel! 

Hing, also known as asafoetida, is the dried sap of a mountain shrub, and its flavor is incomparable and essential to many South Indian dishes.  The aroma is infamously sharp when raw, but after blooming in a little bit of oil at the beginning of the cooking process, it adds a deep, savory, allium flavor — it's a wonderful alternative to those with a sensitivity to onions and garlic.  Tasting notes of pear too.

Those who cook with hing know that a little goes a long way - start with 1/8 tsp and bloom it in fat at the beginning of the cooking process.

Most hing is blended with rice or wheat flour in order to prevent caking, but we wanted to provide a grain- and gluten-free version, so we blended it with our New Harvest Turmeric, which is often used in combination with hing in cooking. 

Ingredients:  New Harvest turmeric, 20% (Curcuma longa), 80%; wild hing (Ferula asafoetida), 20%

Weight:  28 g / 1 oz

 

EQUIVALENCY


COOKING

  • Make a tadka by tempering some hing in ghee, then drizzle the flavored oil over a dish right before serving
  • Bloom in fat and sauté greens

SOURCING

Grown in the foothills south of Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, hing is a native plant that grows wild and is harvested by local foragers. The plant resembles anise, but instead of collecting the seeds, foragers cut the plant at its base with a curved knife and collect the gum-like sap that emerges from the exposed cut. The sap is then placed in containers in a dark room to dry.  After drying, the hing forms slightly sticky, resinous pebbles that are ground to a fine consistency.