Five-spice powder five-spice powders. Five spice may be used with fatty meats such as pork, duck or goose. It is used as a spice rub for chicken, duck, pork and seafood, in red cooking recipes, or added to the breading for fried foods. Five spice is used in recipes for Cantonese roasted duck, as well as beef stew. It is used as a marinade for Vietnamese broiled chicken. The five-spice powder mixture has followed the Chinese diaspora and has been incorporated into other national cuisines throughout Asia. In Hawaii, some restaurants place a shaker of the spice on each patron's table. A
Paprika Paprika Paprika (US English more commonly , British English more commonly ) is a ground spice made from dried red fruits of the larger and sweeter varieties of the plant "Capsicum annuum", called "bell pepper" or "sweet pepper". The most common variety used for making paprika is "tomato pepper", sometimes with the addition of more pungent varieties, called "chili peppers", and cayenne pepper. In many languages, but not English, the word "paprika" also refers to the plant and the fruit from which the spice is made. Although paprika is often associated with Hungarian cuisine, the peppers from which it is