"Chinese five-spice is a blend meant to represent the five elements of water, fire, wood, earth, and metal with salty, sour, sweet, bitter, and pungent tastes."
"It's ultimately a collection of warm spices. I use it for pumpkin pie all the time," she tells Tasting Table. Those warm spices couldn't be a better match for something like pumpkin pie, where the sweet, delicate flavor of pumpkin is the showstopper.
The spice blend shares two ingredients with pumpkin pie spice: cinnamon and cloves. The other three ingredients are fennel seeds, star anise, and white peppercorns.
Chinese five-spice has distinguishing characteristics that add major depth to pumpkin pie. Fennel seeds and star anise are slightly sweet spices with distinctive licorice flavors.
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