Blended Spices

Traditionally in India cooking basic spices are used. Later with nuclear families and less time devoted for cooking Spice Blends were invented.

They are essentially the Basic Spices processed and mixed in certain proportions to give the distinctive taste of the particular dish a person wants to make. 

There can be arround 28 different basic spices in 1 blend of which the user might not have even heard about the herb.

But these spice blends are the one which make the dish stand out.