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Umami Bomb
Umami Bomb: 75 Vegetarian Recipes That Explode with Flavor | Raquel Pelzel
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Its time for vegetarians (and pescatarians) to enjoy the deep, soul-satisfying fifth taste of umami. Discovered in Japan in 1908 and accepted as a verified taste in the West in 1985, umami is the savory dimension that makes food truly delicious. And though its most naturally found in animal proteinshello, baconit turns out there are umami-rich, non-meat ingredients that have the power to transform the ordinary into the amazing. Ingeniously built around the use of eight flavor bomb ingredientshard cheese, tomatoes, miso, mushrooms, soy sauce, caramelized onions, nutritional yeast (dont know it? youre in for a treat) and smokefrom Raquel Pelzel, these 75 recipes are so surprisingly rich and tasty youll do a double-take. Heres how to turn mushrooms into lardons for an authentically Southern-tasting dish of black-eyed peas and greens. Caramelize onions to use in the best grilled cheese ever. Add a secret spoon of soy sauce to the batter of your next chocolate cakethe soy taste disappears, but leaves behind an unexpected depth of flavor. Author Raquel Pelzel brilliantly combines umami flavors and techniques, doubling and sometimes tripling the umami bomb effectadding miso to cacio e pepe sauce results in a vegetarian pasta on steroids. And she brings umami into a surprising directiongrilling the fruit first for an otherworldly Banana Split. Wheres the beef? Not here, and definitely not needed.
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KarenUK
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Love this book! Each chapter focuses on an ingredient or technique that is rich in umami flavor….eg. Soy sauce, mushrooms, miso, roasted tomatoes, aged Parmesan, nutritional yeast, smoke etc….
Fun, flavorful and easy recipes, lots of photos and very fresh produce heavy. Lots of great recipes to try, but also lots of inspirational ideas on creating flavor ‘Bombs‘ when cooking every day.

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WanderingBookaneer
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I just preordered this. My digital ARC was in Adobe Digital Editions and I know this is a book I was to own. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

RadicalReader The cover sure looks delicious books like these seriously need to come with a free sample that‘s just as fabulous 6y
Vexingcircumstance I have a major sensory aversion to food that looks messy to eat, so whatever that is in the cover made my stomach turn even as I was scrolling past. 6y
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WanderingBookaneer
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@BookishMarginalia and I love it when cookbooks get technical!

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