This is a great Umami dish with a few simple ingredients from Jeremy Chan, the Executive Chef and co-founder of Michelin-stared restaurant, @Ikoyi_london. The pecorino is very high in glutamates and creates a powerful combination with the tomatoes and the...
February 2021
This savoury cake is often called “turnip cake” and is made with Chinese turnip, a large white radish (also know as daikon or mooli). Our version uses the ordinary salad radish.⠀ Traditionally, various dried ingredients are used in this cake,...
February 2021
Stargazy Pie is a traditional South-West England speciality using crusty pie pastry and fresh sardines caught off the Cornish coast. We've adapted it, and created a fantastic fish pie with celeriac mash replacing the crusty pastry. The fish is filleted...
February 2021
Stilton cheese is quintessentially English. There are two main varieties: Blue Stilton with marbled blue veins, and milder White Stilton. Blue Stilton is high in glutamate. We matched it with roasted cauliflower, another Umami food. Just three Umami ingredients create...
February 2021
Many different recipes for this ultimate comfort food have been devised since its inception in the 18th Century. Some recipes call for roux (white sauce) but we took inspiration from Fortnum & Mason’s. Mature Cheddar cheese, Worcester Sauce and egg...
January 2021
There is no cheese or dairy cream in the dressing, but the cashew nut butter makes it taste so creamy and savoury.⠀ Ingredients ⠀ ⠀ 500g of purple salad leaves including endive, Belgium chicory, treviso, chioggia or radicchio⠀ 2 tbsp...
January 2021
Bacon-Wrapped Avocado Sticks - a quick and easy umami snack, perfect for festive platters and new year celebration nibbles⠀ Ingredients (makes 8 sticks)⠀ ⠀ 1 avocado⠀ 8 thin streaky bacon rashers⠀ 8 wooden sticks Dipping sauce⠀ ⠀ 2 TBSP crme...
December 2020
Don't throw away any remnants of the Christmas turkey. Here is a paella cooked in stock made from the carcass and all the leftovers. Ingredients:⠀
December 2020
It’s coming: another Christmas day. Turkey contains the Umami element Glutamate, but not as richly as chicken. This is how to supercharge the Umami in your roast turkey!⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Umami Brine: Brining is to soak the turkey in salted water...
December 2020
The mushroom is marinated and baked to make a juicy, chewy, flavourful steak. The gorgeous sauce is made with red wine and stock from dried mushrooms for Umami oomph. ⠀ Rich yet light, you can eat two or three of...
December 2020