Rather than a particular dish, what's your favourite food ingredient?
Rather than a particular dish, what's your favourite food ingredient?
Eggs for me.
If we're talking non meat then onion, spinach, pumpkin, tofu and taro.
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No mention of garlic?
Any of the spices in five spice powder, or said powder.
Soy sauce.
Tomatoes.
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Garlic 100%.
Always have garlic powder and 3-6 heads of garlic in my kitchen and I am not above roasting a couple of them heads at a moments notice so I can toss roasted garlic into anything.
My wife hates me lol
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Garlic is the only answer for me. I double the garlic quantity in any recipe that calls for it. It's just so good
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When I started cooking, I thought a "clove" was the whole head of garlic. It tasted about right to me. XD
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Depends on if it’s raw- an extra fine micro plane grater will happily “mince” a clove into something that would easily overpower everting in the dish.
Roasted and whole? It is the dish.
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"Garlic is not measured with spoons but with the heart"
Someone once posted that on reddit, I believe it.
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Same goes with vanilla. Oh 1 teaspoon? Cool tablespoon it is lfg!
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There's always freshly minced garlic. In fact for a lot of recipes that call for garlic slices I usually turn that into minced garlic.
Luckily for me, wife is even more into garlic. She doubles the quantity in a recipe. XD
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Garlic and onions. Any onions is good onions.
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I like every month or two buying a pound of onions, run em over the mandolin and spend an afternoon doing a nice slow caramelize on em. Reduce em down to a cup or so of dark brown amazingness, toss it in the fridge and add into a bunch of food just like I do roasted garlic.
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I've been going for garlic and shallots lately.
In my fridge, there's nearly always a container with garlic butter and olive oil that I make, and another with chopped shallots with salt and pepper, soaking in olive oil.
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I'm not sure how much smell is factored into people's enjoyment of garlic, but my nose basically doesn't work (and not because of covid), maybe that's why. It's a nice to have but not that high for me. Disclaimer though, I am Asian. It's just my preference. For example, while garilic is really nice on fried food, I'd rather have them with salted egg sauce, pepper sauce, various spicy condiment etc. There are so many things to add for flavouring and I'm not particularly picky. I do know someone who's a garlic fiend though.
As for eggs, there are so many dishes here with eggs or eggs as a topping, you could have eggs in all your meal for a day and it wouldn't be anything out of the ordinary. Like, in a lot of western cultures it's probably normal to have fried eggs on their own in the morning or something. Here it's very easy to just put fried egg or crispy omelette on rice and it won't be strange. Not to mention you can put them in noodles, soup and so on.
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I'm Asian too, garlic is also common in Chinese dishes.
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