Nigella seed

Nigella sativaAlso called nigella sativa

Nigella seed is a spice. Cooks dry-toast the seeds, blend them into pastes, or use them for seasoning.

Plant-based
Gluten-free
No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category: Herbs & spices
Part used: Seed
Family: Ranunculaceae
Cooked most in: Asia
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 1 in the catalogue

Photo: Afifa Afrin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use nigella seed

Typical ways to cook or use it

Dry toast
Paste blend
Season

Preparing it

Dry-roast the seeds before using them as a seasoning.

Around the world

Where nigella seed is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses nigella seed. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Asia1

Countries whose dishes use it most

Indonesia 1

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list nigella seed among their ingredients.

Origins

Native to: Western Asia, Eastern Europe, Cyprus, Türkiye, Iran, Iraq, Bulgaria, Romania

On the table

Dishes made with nigella seed

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

Bir pletok
Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include nigella seed.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: nigella seed in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.

Allergens: None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin: No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten: None
Alcohol: None
Caffeine: None
Pork: None

Around the world

What nigella seed is called

Names in 89 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
Nigella sativa · Nigella truncata · Nigella cretica · Kalonji
French
Nigelle cultivée · Cumin noir · Nigelle cultivee · Nigella sativa
Italian
Nigella sativa · Grano nero
Portuguese
Nigella sativa
German
Echter Schwarzkümmel · Nigella sativa · Schwarzer Kümmel
Dutch
Zwarte komijn · Nigella sativa
Greek
Νιγέλα η εδώδιμος
Turkish
Çörek otu · habbetüssevda
Russian
чернушка посевная · Черный тмин · Чёрный тмин · Nigella sativa
Polish
Czarnuszka siewna · Nigella sativa
Arabic
حبة البركة · حبة سوداء · الحبة السوداء · حبه البركه
Persian
سیاه‌دانه · سیاه دانه · سیاهدانه

Show all 89 languages

Achinese
Jeura itam
Albanian
Fara e zeze
Amharic
ጥቁር ኣዝሙድ
Aragonese
Nigella sativa
Assamese
ক'লা জীৰা
Asturian
Nigella sativa
azb
اکین قاراچؤرک اوْتو
Azerbaijani
Əkin qaraçörəkotu
Bangla
কালোজিরা · কালো জিরা
Basque
Usagari · Nigella sativa
Belarusian
чарнушка пасяўная · чарнушка
Bhojpuri
मंगरइल · कलौंजी · मंगरैल · मँगरइल
Bosnian
Čurekot
Brazilian Portuguese
Nigella sativa
Bulgarian
черен кимион · Nigella sativa
Cantonese
黑孜然
Catalan
pebreta · Nigella sativa
Cebuano
Nigella sativa
Central Kurdish
ڕەشکە
Chinese
家黑種草 · 家黑种草 · 黑种草 · 黑香种草（家黑种草）
Croatian
Crni kim
Czech
černucha setá · Nigella sativa
Danish
Sortkommen · Nigella sativa
Divehi
ކަޅު ދިރި · Nigella sativa
Egyptian Arabic
حبه البركه
Esperanto
Sema nigelo
Estonian
aed-mustköömen
Extremaduran
Nigella sativa
Finnish
ryytineito · Maustenigella · Nigella sativa
Galician
Nigella sativa
Hausa
Habbatus Sauda
Hebrew
קצח תרבותי · קצח הגינה · Nigella Sativa
Hungarian
kerti katicavirág · Nigella sativa
hyw
Սեւագնդիկ
Ido
Nigella sativa
Indonesian
Jintan hitam · Habbatussauda
Interlingua
Nigella sativa
Interlingue
Nigella sativa
Irish
Nigella sativa
Japanese
ニオイクロタネソウ
Javanese
Jinten ireng
Kabyle
Sanuj
Kannada
ಕರೀಜೀರಿಗೆ
Kazakh
Қара зере
Korean
흑쿠민
Kurdish
Reşreşk
Kurdish (Arabic)
رەشرەشک
Kurdish (Latin)
Reşreşk
Latin
Nigella sativa
Latvian
Sējas melnsēklīte · Nigella sativa
Lithuanian
Sėjamoji juodgrūdė · Kalondži
Madurese
Jhinten èreng
Malay
Habbatus sauda · Habbatussauda · Jintan hitam
Malayalam
നിഗെല്ല സറ്റൈവ
Nepali
कालो जीरा
Norwegian Bokmål
svartkummen
Occitan
Nigella sativa
Pashto
توروانجه · توره وانجه · کلونجۍ
Punjabi
ਕਲੌਂਜੀ
Romanian
Negrilică
Serbian
Чурукот · Nigella sativa
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Чурукот
Serbian (Latin)
Crni kumin
Serbian (Latin)
Čurukot
Simplified Chinese
家黑种草
Sindhi
ڪارا ھيرو
Sinhala
Nigella sativa
Swedish
Svartkummin · Nigella sativa
Tajik
Сиёҳдона
Tamil
கருஞ்சீரகம்
Telugu
black seed
Thai
เทียนดำ
Traditional Chinese
家黑種草
Tulu
ಕಪ್ಪಲ್-ಜೀರ್‍ದರಿ
Ukrainian
Чорнушка посівна · Чорний кмин · Калінджі · Nigella sativa
Upper Sorbian
Sywna čornucha
Urdu
کلونجی · Nigella sativa
Uzbek
Nigella sativa
Vietnamese
Nigella sativa
Volapük
Nigella sativa
Waray
Nigella sativa
West Flemish
Nigelle
Western Panjabi
کلونجی
Wu Chinese
家黑种草

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q160575

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