Will I use cardamom pods? (Or recipe ideas please!)

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

I'm just checking my Sainsbury's substitutions (I lead an exciting life). I'd ordered caraway seeds, and they've subbed cardamom pods. I was going to refuse them, but now I have FOMO!

I like the flavour (I was very sad when Tampopo stopped doing cardamom ice cream because it was gorgeous). I'm a pretty good cook, I just don't think I've needed them before. What exciting things can I make with cardamom pods? Or should I just send them back and stop overthinking?

Cinnamon buns! Lots of recipes use both cinnamon and cardamom.

I use them to flavour basmati rice when I'm making a curry. Three or four pods for two of us. I take them out before I serve the rice.

They add a subtle flavour to pilau rice but you can never find them when it's ready and someone then gets them in their dinner.

Crap substitute for caraway seeds though. Sainsbury's pickers obviously not into cooking.

I use them in rice and leave them in as they can be eaten once they're cooked. The kids pick them out and put them on my plate as I love them.

You could always make chai lattes or chai tea at home.

I have actually just ordered more cardamom pods as it's started to feel a bit more autumn-y where I am and chai is the perfect drink to cuddle up with a book and a fuzzy blanket on a crisp autumn/winter day.

Crap substitute for caraway seeds though. Sainsbury's pickers obviously not into cooking.

"It's a spice, and it begins with C, and it isn't ground — perfect!"

I think I'll accept them (thank you for all the ideas ), but might say that they're not a very good substitute.

Unlike the orange squash I've been given instead of blackcurrant, that's going straight back. Possibly my fault for ordering a fancier one (Rock's) so they've matched the brand rather than the flavour, but I'd have been happy with Ribena!

They get used in Biryani and kedgeree here.

I'm very grateful to the pickers, and I know it's at least in part the fault of the algorithm. But substitutions do seem a bit the luck of the draw!

Chicken dopiaza realfood.tesco.com/recipes/chicken-dopiaza.html
Korma www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/paneer-korma

Roast some stone fruits with a few crushed pods, serve with ice cream for dessert or yoghurt for breakfast.

Gin! Put them in gin!

And rice. And curries. And some cake recipes. They're a store cupboard staple here.

Cardamom rice pudding

Can also be used to flavor coffee.
I also like them with apples, or in fact most dessert where you add cinnamon, can add cardamom too IMHO

Rice and curry here.

So good in cinnamon rolls, rice pudding, actual rice, lots of curries.

I highly recommend Nadiya's rice tray bake. The cardamom rice is brilliant.

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chicken_and_rice_bake_97733

Ottolenghi cardamom rice baked with chicken thighs is on my desert island dinner party menu! It's in the Jerusalem cookbook.

My mum makes the most delicious orange and cardamom cake. It's one of my favourite flavours and always add waaaay more pods than it says to for currys cause I love the surprise of biting into one 😋

I had an amazing cardamom bun from a local posh bakery today. So delicious. Make buns with your pods OP. And maybe try to make ice cream with the rest, bet that’d be lovely.

Cardamom and onion stuffing - fabulous with roast chicken.

Mmm buns. Cardamom cake is amazing with coffee, my Swedish friend makes it.
Another friend grinds the seeds along with coffee to make Cardamom coffee which is delicious.