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A pinch, and often less than that. This is one of the most assertive things in an Indian pantry - raw, straight from the tin, it is overpowering, and the quantity a recipe calls for will look implausibly small. Trust the recipe. Adding more does not improve a dish; it takes it over.

Into the hot oil at the start, in the tempering, along with or just after the mustard or cumin seed, and only for a second or two before the rest goes in. Hot fat transforms it completely - the raw smell disappears and what is left is savoury and mellow. Used raw at the end it does not do the same thing at all.

That the asafoetida resin has been cut with a carrier - commonly wheat flour or rice flour, plus gum - to make it pourable and to temper the strength, which is what almost every powdered hing sold in a tin is. Which carrier this one uses is on the ingredient list. That matters if you are avoiding wheat, so read the pack.

Because the aroma compounds travel, and they go through a loosely closed lid and into everything near it. Keep it in its own tightly sealed container, ideally inside a second one, and away from anything that picks up smells - tea, flour, rice. Buying a small tin is more sensible than a large one for most households.

In a sealed airtight jar, somewhere cool, dark and dry - a cupboard away from the hob, not the shelf above it. Heat, light and steam are what flatten dry spices. Decant from the bag it arrives in rather than leaving it rolled shut, use a dry spoon every time, and keep the jar closed while you cook rather than open beside a steaming pan.

Read the best-before date on the pack - that is the manufacturer's, and the product page shows it as the store entered it. Past that, the question is aroma rather than safety: dry spices do not spoil so much as fade. Open the jar and smell it. If it smells of very little, it will taste of very little, and no amount of extra spooning brings it back.

The ingredient list, any allergen statement, the country of origin and the best-before date, all of which are the manufacturer's to state and are printed on the packaging rather than reproduced here. The product page carries the weight, the barcode and the date as the store entered them.

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