ground cardamom

[misshardbroom]

If you have any, where did you buy it from?

I do have some myself, but my mother (who lives too far away to give her mine) needs some for a recipe. It's the very smooth chocolate mousse recipe in this month's Good Food so grinding her own cardamom seeds isn't really an option as it would be too gritty.

Any ideas of where to get it?

I did a cardamon and white chocolate mousse with whole cardamon but rather than grind the seeds, I let them infuse in the warm milk and then strained the milk to get rid of the seeds. Would this work with your recipe?

That's a really good idea, but unfortunately, there's no milk or cream in this one, it's a low-fat version that uses beaten egg whites folded into the melted chocolate.

Asian supermarket or local shop? -thats where we always buy all our spices and unusual indredients

I haven't used cardamom much but if you take them out of the seed case do they not crush well into a fine powder? I'd try that with a pestle and mortar - old stylie low tech.

They'll crush pretty well for if you want to put them in cardomom bread, for instance. But if you buy the ready ground stuff it's really really fine, much smoother than you could do yourself.

(Or finer than I can do, anyway. Think I'm going to put some in a little envelope and post it to my mum!!)