Green Cardamom is used to spice both sweet and savoury dishes. It is widely employed in Indian, Middle Eastern, Arabic, and Swedish cuisine. It is used as whole pods, seeds, or ground. The seeds are small and black, while the pods differ in colour and size by species.
The spice has a very warm aroma and pungent taste which it can retain for a very long time. The pods contain a number of seeds, but the entire cardamom pod can be used whole or ground.