Easy Cardamom Simple Syrup (3 Ingredients)
How to make homemade cardamom syrup with ground cardamom or cardamom seeds! With just 3 ingredients & 3 minutes, you can use it to add sweetness to anything.
Servings: 1 ⅓ cup
Equipment
- mortar and pestle
Ingredients
- 1 Cup sugar alt. granulated sweetener
- ¾ Cup water
- 1 ½ Tablespoons cardamom seeds
Instructions
- An optional step for an even deeper cardamom flavor is to dry-toast the cardamom seeds over low heat for 3-5 minutes.
- Heat the water in a metal-bottom pan until just simmering.
- Meanwhile, grind your cardamom seeds with a mortar and mestle or lightly pulse them in a spice grinder, until coarsely ground but not nearly as fine as ground cardamom from the store.
- Then once your water is simmering, pour in your sweetener and stir everything together until the sweetener has dissolved, and bring everything back to a low boil, then add the cardamom seeds.
- Heat the cardamom syrup mixture on low for 10 minutes (set a timer), never letting it get above a simmer, stirring occasionally.
- When your timer goes off, remove the mixture from the heat and let it sit on a cool burner for 15-20 more minutes (to infuse further).
- Then strain the mixture and preserve your cardamom syrup in a closed container in the fridge for up to 10 days or in the freezer for up to 6 months.
Notes
Can I use ground cardamom?: for this recipe I used whole cardamom seeds (NOT pods), but you can theoretically use 2 teaspoons of ground cardamom instead, though I haven't tried it myself. Just note that you'll want to very carefully strain the syrup after infusion, to avoid it being gritty from super tiny bits of cardamom.
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No Mortar and Pestle?: if you don't have a mortar and pestle, you can also throw the seeds into a spice grinder and grind it for 30 seconds in 3-second intervals. This will get a pretty coarse grind, but it gets the job done in terms of flavoring the cardamom syrup.