Complete picture guide to brine soup spice ingredients, with the ingredients clear at a glance

Brine spices are the seasonings used to make braised dishes, generally referring to the Chinese medicinal spices used to make brine. Brine spices have a strong fragrant aroma and can remove the fishy and gamy smell of food ingredients while adding fragrance to the food. Putting brine spices into a brine pot and simmering them with water makes brine; different brine spice formulas can produce brine with different aroma profiles. There are several hundred kinds of spices used to blend brine spices on the market. The more common ones include star anise, cassia bark, Sichuan peppercorn, Nardostachys chinensis, fennel, white cardamom, nutmeg, Amomum villosum, bay leaf, clove bud, clove, sand ginger, galangal, lemongrass, licorice, and black cardamom.

An introduction to the names and pictures of 32 commonly used brine soup spices