The Essential Ingredient’s truffle salt is the queen of seasonings.
High quality sea salt is combined with ground Italian black truffle, infusing the rich, earthy truffle flavour through every grain.
A subtler flavour-carrier than truffle oil, your jar of truffle salt will never be far once you start experimenting with its intoxicating flavour.
Try it sprinkled across a thick steak, or use it …
As we look further and further afar for culinary inspiration, we discover ingredients that are widely used in particular cultures but largely unexplored in our own.
With our eyes increasingly turning to South America for food ideas, ingredients such as ‘hearts of palm’ begin to appear in our recipes.
A core ingredient in many Latin American dishes, hearts …
Thomas Schnetzler’s Lindt Excellence Ginger Chocolate Mousse recipe highlights his passion for creating masterpieces from the highest quality chocolate.
At The Essential Ingredient, we believe winter is the target of far too much negativity. Sure, it’s colder, darker and often much harder to get out of bed, but winter is also a wonderful opportunity to embrace some warming, comforting seasonal cooking.
Winter is the perfect time for hearty soups, steaming bowls of risotto, rich pasta sauces and all manner of slow-cooked masterpieces, and with the high-quality seasonal ingredients available in …
Roast pork is an Australian favourite, particularly when served with all the customary trimmings; roast vegetables, apple sauce, gravy and, of course, crackling. To most of us, a traditional Australian pork roast isn’t complete without perfectly formed, golden crackling, but getting a consistent result can often be a challenge.
Adrian Richardson, chef at La Luna and author of the book ‘Meat’, shows how to get perfect crackling results every time. This …
Few ingredients are as evocative as chestnuts. Their rich, warming flavour, intoxicating aroma and dazzling versatility have made them symbols of the colder months in the Northern hemisphere, where a bowl of chestnuts is rarely far from a glass of brandy and a crackling fireplace.
In Australia, it’s easy to make these fleshy nuts- low in sodium and fat …
Sugar! Without it there would be no chocolate, no cakes and no diversion from the afternoon meltdown. Sugar is a wondrous ingredient that can be used in countless ways. But sugar is not without its mysteries.
How do the different types of sugars and syrups work in cooking? Can one be substituted for another? What is the difference between molasses, treacle, …
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