Chinese Five-Spice Powder

Submitted by Sharlene~W

"You can purchase this powder premade in the grocery store, but making your own makes for a better flavor."

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 5
• Yields: 2 tablespoons

ingredients

• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 teaspoon fennel seed, toasted and ground
• 1 teaspoon ground star anise
• 1 teaspoon szechuan peppercorns, toasted and ground

directions

1. Mix the spices together and store in an airtight jar.

Reviews

[Zurie]

I am so pleased I came across this little recipe!! Today I need Chinese Five-Spice for a lovely recipe. Couldn't find any in my spice cupboard. The only decent shop in the sticks where I live didn't have any. What to do?? I came home to Zaar, and found this recipe!! Fantastic. I do not have Sheczuan peppercorns, so used mixed (white, pink and black). The rest of the spices I do have. I blended it in a small coffee bean grinder. It smells great!! And guess what? As I scratched around, I DID find my Five-Spice powder ... old and with hardly any fragrance left, so I chucked it out!! Thanks for saving my Sunday night recipe!! Smells great!!!

 

[1clareevans]

I think there is too much clove in this. Other recipes only have 1/8 tsp of cloves and this one tastes too strongly of cloves

 

[Harley M.]

I have a Chinese(Szechuan)peppercorn bush/shrub(very thorny)in my ornamental garden. This year it produced an abundance of the red peppercorns, so I dried some in my solar dehydrator and ground them with rock salt(Himalayan, Brazilian Sea Salt and Kosher). The flavor is fantastic and we use it in just about everything now. I even sprinkled some on my popcorn.

 

[Cooksci]

Aaaaughhh! Thank you so much for posting this-we found we needed five spice powder for a recipe and I was out and didn't have time to run to the store. This worked great! I wish I had a better way to grind up the fennel seeds than pounding them with a meat mallet but we still got the flavor anyway. Just adding the 1/2 tsp. of spice really made our chicken stir fry a lot better. Thank you again.

 

[Cotr F.]

While this is the basic 5 spice mix , many 5 spice mixes you buy include a little ginger powder and if you use normal pepper black/white or red instead of Szechuan you're probably best to add a little ginger to balance it out and I add a little chilli powder too if I'm using normal pepper.