While fungi forages have become a popular Autumn activity, many of the unique varieties of mushrooms critical to European cuisines are commercially unavailable in Australia.
Fortunately, French and Italian producers have perfected the art of drying mushrooms, allowing us to enjoy them year-round. Dried mushrooms are a wonderful way of adding both …
The Essential Ingredient Barrel-Aged Red Wine Vinegar is made using traditional processes from the juice of high quality Australian Cabernet Sauvignon grapes.
Aged in American Hogs Head wine barrels for two years, this red wine vinegar epitomises the ‘classic style’, with a complex flavour profile that adds more than a simple …
Australian chefs have been exploring this country’s native bush foods for decades, while indigenous Australians have been aware of their many wonderful flavours and properties for over 40,000 years.
Incorporating fruits and flowers from Australia’s lush rainforests, herbs from the verdant woodlands and fruits and seeds from our expansive deserts, these …
For many of us, our first kitchen memories are formed at our mother’s heels, helping sift flour, stir batters or ice biscuits.
In truth, our assistance can’t have been all that helpful, and we probably wore more than we baked, but these moments instilled in us the sense of wonder at …
Extra virgin olive oil is counted among the most essential of ingredients; it is the lifeblood of many cuisines, versatile, and a fine example of quality making all the difference.
At The Essential Ingredient, we understand the importance of olive oil, and we are proud to unveil our new The Essential …
Easy to prepare, attractive to serve and a pleasure to eat, rice appears as hors d’œuvre, side dishes, main courses, desserts and snacks; its simplicity as an ingredient matched only by its versatility.
Because of the many ways in which rice can be prepared, it’s important to choose the right rice …
Many of us have a complicated love/hate relationship with autumn. While we can be saddened by the end …
It’s often said that variety is the spice of life, but the opposite is also true.
An understanding of spices and …
A recipe is the first in a series created exclusively for The Essential Ingredient by Karen Martini. To be the first to receive these exclusive recipes, sign up to our eNewsletter on the home page.
Serves 6-8 as a side dish
Difficulty: Easy
Prep. time approx. 10 minutes
Total time …
Salt is one of nature’s finest preservatives and is one of the basic tastes detected by our tongues. Salt has been extracted and used in food preparation since Neolithic times, and though it is among the cheapest, most common ingredients available to us, it became an important trading commodity in …
Few foods are as nutritionally comprehensive as those we commonly refer to as ‘grains’. Though ancient in culinary application, the true benefits of these incredible ingredients are only now being recognised.
The Essential Ingredient stocks a wide variety of these versatile, increasingly popular ‘ancient grains’, all carefully selected for their quality.
Australian Organic Quinoa
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A true dining experience extends well beyond the food. Many other factors combine to create a memorable meal: the plate, the company, the atmosphere and, of course, the cutlery.
Cutlery is more than just a collection of tools used to make eating easier. It is intrinsically linked to the experience of …
A chopping board is among the most ubiquitous of kitchen accessories. No kitchen is without one.
While plastic chopping boards have gained popularity due to the belief that they are less likely than wooden boards to harbor bacteria, research has proven that when usual standards of cleanliness are upheld, wood is …
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