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five-spice powder. Used extensively in chinese cooking, this pungent mixture of five ground spices usually consists of equal parts of cinnamon, cloves, fennel seed, star anise and Szechuan peppercorns. Prepackaged five-spice powder is available in Asian markets and most supermarkets.
How to Use Five Spice Powder. Five spice powder is most at home in traditional Chinese meat preparations, like red-cooking (braising in soy sauce, sugar, rice wine, and spices), stir fries, or roasting. It's essential to char siu, the Cantonese-style roast pork that is fatty, sweet, savory, and addictive.ne of the things I love about spices is their potential to make foods taste exotic each time you use them, and nothing tastes as pleasantly mysterious to me as five spice powder. By all rights it shouldn'tâit's used in plenty of Chinese dishes and is mostly composed of well-known spices.