New Harvest Turmeric
Sweet, floral, buttery flavor and brilliant yellow-orange color.
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Why Burlap & Barrel?
Single origin spices sourced directly from small farms
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Our exceptionally sweet, floral New Harvest Turmeric is grown regeneratively on a farm in southern India by Dr. Salunkhe, an expert farmer specializing in sustainable agricultural techniques. Its high curcumin content (4%) makes it ideal for both culinary and nutritional uses, and it's perfect for both sweet and savory applications, in curries and other dishes, as well as in turmeric teas and lattes. Add it to sauces, stews, salad dressings and baked goods for bright color, depth of flavor and wellness.
Our turmeric is free of lead, testing below the detectable threshold of 0.1 parts per million (ppm). It has been tested in an internationally accredited food safety testing lab. Please contact us for more details on our testing procedures for turmeric and other spices.
Highlights
Satara, India
Haldi
Sun-dried
Melted Butter • Jasmine Flower • Honey
Ingredients
Ground turmeric (Curcuma longa)
Cooking tips
- Blend into a chicken or vegetable soup
- Mix into sweet or savory doughs for a vibrant color and earthy flavor
- Sprinkle into rice dishes
- Use as a marinade for fish, tofu or other light proteins
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SOURCING
Our turmeric is grown regeneratively, hand-harvested, cleaned, steamed, sun-dried and ground fresh. It's irrigated primarily using rainwater, which helps reduce the farm's water consumption, while the water-saving techniques intensify the turmeric's flavor.
Our partner farm allows the turmeric to go through a curing process in the soil before harvesting. The skin tightens and turns glossy, and the flavor concentrates and sweetens. This turmeric is particularly sweet. We don't know exactly why; maybe it's because it grows alongside (and is crop-rotated with) sugarcane. But we think this curing step also helps avoid the bitter, chalky off-flavors in low-quality turmeric and makes our New Harvest Turmeric so sweet and buttery.
To grind his turmeric into powder, our partner farmer drives 2 hours each way by tractor. There are other grinding facilities closer to home, but they have smaller, less-effective motors and use metal grinding mechanisms, which heat the turmeric and shed microscopic metal fragments as they grind. He prefers the more powerful motor and the stone grinder at this facility to make an especially fine, soft turmeric powder, and the stone grinding plates help keep the turmeric from heating up through the friction of the grinding process. Since it's a shared facility in an area with lots of other turmeric farms, he scrubs down the grinder AND discards the first ~100lbs of his turmeric to prevent any contamination from pesticides or other chemical residues in his final product. The care he takes at every step of the process is one of the reasons his turmeric is so exceptional. We're so proud to work with him.
Meet the Farmer: Our turmeric is grown by Dr. Salunkhe, a naturopathic and Ayurvedic doctor, a doctor of pharmacology, a disciplined Yogi, a community leader and a passionate agriculture advocate. About 15 years ago, he realized that the connections between poor health and nutrition extended all the way back to farming practices, and he decided to focus his scientific expertise on agriculture. He is deeply, overwhelmingly passionate about his farm and his crops.
Recently, we got to visit his farm, where he told us that his neighbors have laughed at him and dismissed his insistence on natural methods and regenerative techniques for years, but that since we've been buying his turmeric (at almost 10x the going price for commodity turmeric), they've started to change their minds. The fact that we made the long trip to visit the farm and meet him in person was especially meaningful, both for him personally but also for his campaign to show his neighbors the value of natural farming.
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So good. You’ll never go back.
Honestly, once you try these spices you’ll truly learn what you’ve been missing. Everything from the ordering process to prices and of course sourcing. Ahhh I can't say enough good things. I keep gifting them and then the recipients can't stop talking about them. Well done, team B&B!
All-around goodness…
It began with a couple dashes, of the 1.9oz size, in our coffee, then we had to big time! Was great in my vegetarian mac & cheese. Tea, coffee, smoothies… The health benefits! Get this, now.
The most amazing spices!
You have not understood the real meaning of how spices can enhance your cooking until you experience the spices from Burlap and Barrel. Each is locally sourced, directly from the farmers. My home has been filled with intoxicating aromas since receiving my spice box and the flavor is simply incredible. I can’t recommend this company enough!
Pure turmeric with nice deep earthy tones
This is the purest, freshest turmeric I've ever been able to get ahold of- it has a much deeper, more intense color as well. It provides the backbone for a lot of the dishes I've made recently with a wonderful rich, yet not heavy taste. I've so far made nyonya laksa, different Indian curries, and I'm curious to try haldi doodh, of which the turmeric will undoubtedly add a wonderful hue. I do have some suggestions; I ordered about a dozen spices (I went crazy on them with absolutely no regrets) and I notice that some of them come with a sprinkler lid while others do not. Personally some of these spices I feel don't need a sprinkler at all, since they're ladled out by the spoonful (such as the chilis, masalas, or cumin). Honestly instead of having the sprinkler (maybe put on the side?), I would prefer having the entire lid sealed so that no spice can escape while in transit (at least on the powdered spices). Once I received my spices I of course opened all of them to get a good whiff, and more times than not the spice was trapped in the crevices of the jars, and fell out of the lid onto the ground! I don't want to waste even *1 single fleck!* of these precious spices, and I certainly don't think my floor appreciates them as much as I do. The other thing is that I noticed we get some lovely cards alongside our order; if you made them into postcards, I'd be even easier to share the spice love :)
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