‘Asa’ means gum in Persian, and ‘foetida’ means stinky in Latin. But in India, it’s just called hing. If you accidentally get hing on your hands, it lingers no matter how many times you ...

These dishes usually feature a spice called hing, also known as devil's dung (laughter) because of its - well, enjoy your cornflakes. Any event, Indians consume more hing than any other nation ...

However, there's another cost-effective alternative that can bring you a punch of garlic that is common in Indian cooking - asafoetida, which is also called hing. Hing is a gum resin from the ...

Asafoetida originates from India, where it’s also called hing. Used for medicinal purposes and as a seasoning in many dishes, asafoetida has potential health benefits. Here’s how to work it ...

As a boring Punjabi, my exposure to hing, asafoetida, was limited to its being boiled with urad — sabut, which is black — or dhuli, split white lentils. Even arhar (tuvar or toor) tempered ...

Hing, however, was something entirely new to me. Europeans gave it the decidedly unflattering moniker "devil's dung." Even its more common English name, asafoetida, is derived from the Latin for ...

However, there’s another cost-effective alternative that can bring you a punch of garlic that is common in Indian cooking – asafoetida, which is also called hing. The flavour is high on garlic ...