#246 How to choose the best Spices with Ren Patel
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
I have the Queen of Spice from Ren’s Kitchen on the show today talking about everything to do with sourcing and investing in the best spices for your food, not just from a nutritional standpoint, but a flavour perspective too.
I’ve always been a fan of spices for their medicinal properties, but today I was blown away by how much Ren taught me about spices and I was shocked at how different spices can taste in their raw whole form.
Ren has been in the spice business for years and has some of the best chefs and restaurants use her spices. Tom Kerridge, Bubala, Palomar, Raffles hotel, Ottolenghi to name a few.
Remember, spices add diversity to your plate – they count as 1/4 point each and we’re aiming for 30 different plant points a week! Even used in small amounts, the addition of spices is suggested to improve gut microbiome composition and reduce markers of inflammation. Plus they have been part of the diet of human populations for thousands of years and add a ton of flavour.
Today we talk what we’re doing WRONG when using spices, what Ren has taught people in her cooking classes and how to source correctly and how to spot the best spices in the market.
You can find out more about Ren and Rens Pantry on her website renspantry.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Doctors Kitchen. |
| 0:03.0 | Recipes Health Lifestyle |
| 0:05.0 | When I talk to my students I find out what do you do and you know look at it's lovely |
| 0:09.6 | roasting and grinding it yeah pestle and mortar and but you shouldn't be doing it because you're killing the spice. |
| 0:15.4 | Sorry for being like a kill joint in the kitchen, but actually you're cooking the spice to death. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition, and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and |
| 0:45.4 | lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:50.0 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you to lead |
| 0:55.9 | your best life. |
| 0:57.1 | I have the Queen of Spice from Wren's Kitchen on the show talking about everything to do with |
| 1:08.6 | sourcing and investing in the best spices for your food not not just from a nutritional standpoint, but from a flavor perspective as well. |
| 1:16.7 | I think that's super, super important. |
| 1:18.7 | I've always been a fan of spices for the medicinal properties, but today I was honestly blown away by how much Wren taught me about |
| 1:26.7 | spices and I was shocked at how different spices can taste in their raw whole form. Wren has been in the spice business for years. |
| 1:36.2 | She has some of the best chefs in restaurants using her spices, |
| 1:40.3 | Tom Carriage, Bubbler, Paloma, Raffles Hotel or Telengi, just to name a few. Those are her clients. |
| 1:46.7 | So if you want the best spices, I can highly recommend Wren. I have no financial ties to Wren whatsoever. |
| 1:52.1 | This is not a sponsored podcast at all. We just went out |
| 1:56.4 | and found the best spice producers, purveyors of spices and those who could |
| 2:01.2 | talk to the flavor of spices and Wren came up multiple times. |
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