The Nonya cooking ingredient Kunyit or Turmeric an essential root in Nonya
cooking, its flavour and yellow colouring makes dishes distinctive. Another
well-used ingredient belonging to the ginger family that appears in Asian
cooking.
For example, "Nasi Kunyit" or yellow coloured and flavoured rice is well known
to most people in South-East Asia.
Kunyit or Turmeric, common name for an erect, perennial herb, of the ginger
family, native to parts of India and used widely in Indian Cuisine especially in
curry.
The familiar form of the Kunyit or Turmeric seasoning is in a powder form, but it can be
used chopped or sliced.
Kunyit or Turmeric comes from the root of the turmeric plant, the root resembles
its relative Ginger in appearance, it has a pungent taste and a yellowish colour.