Organic Ras el Hanout

Ras el hanout means "head of the shop" in Arabic — the best blend a Moroccan spice merchant has to offer, historically built from whatever twenty or thirty rare ingredients a shop had on hand. Ours is eleven, chosen so no single spice dominates. You're not supposed to taste cardamom, then cinnamon, then clove one at a time. You're supposed to taste all of it at once, as one thing.

Eleven organic ingredients: cardamom, ginger, nutmeg, cassia cinnamon, allspice, turmeric, coriander seed, white pepper, cayenne, black pepper, and anise.

Rewards slow cooking — a lamb tagine simmered for hours, an overnight marinade before the grill. This isn't a blend that works in five minutes.

Also try our Organic Moroccan Seasoning and Organic Berbere Spice Blend — or browse our full line of USDA certified organic spice blends.

Organic Ras El Hanout Spec Sheet

Certifications & Testing

• Certified organic — Colorado Department of Agriculture (USDA NOP)
• Certified gluten-free — Gluten Intolerance Group, under 10ppm
• Certified kosher — Earth Kosher
• We test heavy metals at the ingredient level, not per blended batch — testing a finished small-batch blend isn’t cost-effective at our volume. Every ingredient in this blend falls below the limits set by ASTA and the EU; the FDA has not established its own guidelines.
• No fillers, no anticaking agents, no irradiation — steam sterilized only