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What's an ingredient you love to use to amp up your cooking? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world to c/recipes@lemmy.world
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In the "Add a pinch of sugar" thread, many of you mentioned other things you like to add to boost the flavor in your dishes - MSG, tomato powder, soy sauce, etc. What's an ingredient you find that you love to add to dishes to improve the flavor (or aroma, texture, or maybe even the way it looks)?

I am a big fan of mushroom powder. It adds a nice boost of umami with some additional flavor that comes along for the ride. Just throw some dried mushrooms into a spice grinder and grind until powder.

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[-] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Salt, acid, fat, heat. In everything.

Acid: vinegar, hot sauce, or some type of citrus. Fat: butter or oil. Heat: Paprika if you only want to pretend but a actually spicy note goes well in almost everything, at least some black pepper.

[-] botengang@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

The heat in "salt, acid, fat, heat" is physical heat from a fire, stove, etc.

[-] Astroturfed@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

And the heat in mine isnt. Always use a little spice. Except maybe desert. Go eat some mayo.

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