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A vegetable from the chicory family, which has a tight head of dark scarlet leaves with creamy colored ribs.

A term that is used to refer to a group of spices used for seasonings or a group of vegetables that may be sweet, bland or spicy.

A reddish brown spice ground from dried peppers to be made into a sweet, mild or hot tasting seasoning.

A vegetable that grows as a bulbous plant consisting of a single head or bulb that can be easily separated into smaller parts known as cloves, all individually wrapped in papery skins.

A large green snap or vine bean measuring an inch or more in length with an inner bean shaped like a kidney bean or oversized lima bean.

A common ready-to-eat dried snack from India that may contain peanuts, rice flakes, sago, green peas, gram pulse, lentils, and a variety of seasonings to provide a mild or hot and spicy flavor.

A variety of bean, which is also referred to simply as a Runner Bean that can be eaten as a fresh green bean, a fresh podded bean or a dried bean.

Mild in flavor, the Calypso bean is a dried heirloom bean that is a member of the kidney bean family of legumes.

For many this term refers to a cooked breakfast cereal common in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Scotland that is made from oats.

Several varieties of peppercorn berries picked at different times, dried by using different drying processes resulting in distinctively different flavors, and mixed together to create a blend of three or four peppercorns.

Onions that remain in the ground and are not harvested until they have matured into a larger round onion with dried leaves.

A type of chile pepper that is about a half-foot in length, is green in color, and has a mild to medium-hot flavor.

A dark green, tapering and narrow pepper that is five to seven inches long. When fully mature it turns a dark brown.

Varieties of small round legumes that are typically classified as fresh, field or pod peas. The fresh pea is a small, round green vegetable, which is grown in a pod and is generally harvested in the early summer.

A type of pasta that may be made as a large dried tube or as a flat sheet of pasta that will be filled with ingredients and rolled into a tube shape.

A spice blend consisting of one or two types of dried red chiles that are ground and pulverized into a fine powder.

In plant families, the tomato is classified as a fruit (berry), but when eaten it resembles a vegetable, which it is most often considered to be.

A perennial aromatic herb that has thin, pointed green leaves that have a distinct licorice-like flavor.

The tropical fruit from the Tamarind tree, a species that is native to North Africa and Asia. Resembling a vegetable with its large brown pod containing small seeds and a brown pulp, the tamarind provides a acidic flavor somewhat like lemon juice, that enhances flavors when used as a seasoning for meat, chutney, curry dishes, and pickled fish.

Reddish brown to dark purple in color, sumac berries grow from a wild decorative bush, which is found in Middle Eastern countries and parts of Italy.