Sauces, Spreads, Sprinkles – And Cocktail In A Can: Whose Fridge Is This?

Amba sauce
“I’m very jar orientated; a batch of my cooking is astir combining large flavours. I’m besides a sucker for a sour ingredient, and this Iraqi pickled mango condiment is really sour – much truthful than tamarind. If I’m garnishing a crockery pinch tahini, past I’ll usage amba to trim done nan richness, different I’ll usage it successful lieu of citrus.”

Stem ginger successful syrup
“My grandpa ever gave maine this erstwhile I was a kid, and I thought it was disgusting. However, now it’s essential; I often make a (chopped) stem ginger and outpouring bulb salsa – it’s saccharine and spicy. Stem ginger is specified a nostalgic constituent for me.”

Confit rootlike oil
“I often make a large batch of confit vegetables and past usage nan infused oil, which has orangish zest, peppercorns and prima anise, complete nan people of nan week. The different time I roasted pumpkin successful it and ate pinch a fried ovum and immoderate breadstuff and food pickles.”

Tamarind concentrate
“I spell done a lot of tamarind; it’s my existent obsession. The marque Chang has nan champion consistency, positive it’s tangy, and you get a large tub for not overmuch money. I usage it successful marinades and dressings for vegetables, mixing pinch miso and agave syrup for, say, roast aubergine. I ever effort to person thing sweet, thing tangy, and thing savoury, and tamarind is filling my tangy quota.”

Spreads and sprinkles
“I make burnt food pinch dates and hawaij to dispersed connected toast aliases a bagel and apical pinch sliced banana – it’s so good. I ever person a batch of harissa salsa macha too, to sprinkle connected astir things, whether that’s eggs aliases soup.”

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Green olives
“La Ribera is an astonishing brand. These olives are stuffed pinch anchovies, and they are truthful juicy and addictive. My friend gave maine a two-kilo tin, which will astir apt past 2 minutes.”

Tofu
“I ever person patient and silken tofu; patient for erstwhile I consciousness I tin put a spot much clip successful meal and marinate it, and past silken to put connected apical of atom pinch chilli oil, a spot of soy condiment and achromatic vinegar.”

Preserved lemons
“Whenever I’m processing a look that needs immoderate texture, sharpness aliases immoderate constituent of surprise, past nan reply is usually chopped preserved lemon.”

Ready meals
”When I’m look testing, I don’t person nan capacity to make thing astatine nan extremity of nan day, truthful a fresh repast is rather appealing. The ones from FieldGoods are great; nan Thai greenish chickpea curry is my existent favourite.”

Bread and food pickles
“I made these pickles from my friend Kenji [Morimoto]’s book, Ferment, to person pinch food connected toast – immoderate excuse to eat much cheese.”

Sticky day and tamarind sauce
“I americium peculiarly into this: melt a spot of butter, operation successful immoderate of nan sauce, and usage to decorativeness roast aubergine aliases saccharine potato.”

Baked beans
“These are genius; I person them for meal astir days. The “rich tomato” is my favourite. Although they opportunity a jar serves two, really it serves one.”

Herbs, lettuce and citrus
“You ever request herbs, truthful I person parsley, coriander, dill, and thyme aliases rosemary. Then, immoderate benignant of citrus, for illustration kumquats, which I blitz full pinch atom vinegar, miso and sesame seeds into a dressing for bitter leaves. Finally, lettuce for health, which I’ll usage to make an almost-tabbouleh, astir apt pinch a battalion of lentils. If I’m emotion fancy, I’ll dress it pinch nan kumquat dressing, different I usage a ready-made 1 – I for illustration nan Toss brand’s Miso Magic.

Cocktail successful a can
“I ever person thing successful nan fridge, conscionable to return nan separator off.”

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