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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup. Yotam Ottolenghi
Love Me Sweet Some Tacky Call Sour Dishes Union Oriental Even Ketchup
You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet. Yotam Ottolenghi
You Machine Make Sheet Smooth Pin Hand Pasta Rolling Create Thick Fast Need
Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores. Yotam Ottolenghi
Health Food World Most Grain Stores Available
Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside. Yotam Ottolenghi
Food Paper Inside Table Parcel Steam Remarkable Lightly Opened Because Always Culinary Package Ingredients Creates Full Cooked Moment Served
Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat. Yotam Ottolenghi
Vegetables Harmonious Nutty Match Fish Versatile Meat Deep
Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours. Yotam Ottolenghi
Light Cheese Other Colour Well Fresh Texture Greek Goes Subtle Milk
Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time. Yotam Ottolenghi
Time Everybody Broad Out Favourite Beans Skins Therapeutic Popping Waste Waste Of Time
Sweet potatoes are ideal for lazy days: just bake, then mash and mix with yogurt, butter or olive oil. Yotam Ottolenghi
Sweet Potatoes Lazy Mash Ideal Days Bake Mix Yogurt Just Oil Then Sweet Potatoes Butter Olive Olive Oil
Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth. Yotam Ottolenghi
Cooking Sweet Adds Arabic Sour Depth
Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It's a robust grain that, if overcooked, won't collapse but will become more tender. Yotam Ottolenghi
Water Will Become Speed Collapse Pot More Tender Takes Longer Along Robust Overnight Than Grain Soak Cook Barley Things Pearl
Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing. Yotam Ottolenghi
Spice Sing Makes Dish Cuts Richness Sweetness
Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened. Yotam Ottolenghi
Sweet Extremes Bitter About Only Adulthood Towards Around Sour Infants Survive Child Which Sensitivity Third
The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness. Yotam Ottolenghi
Distinction Main Red Fresh Green Difference Being Whether
Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south. Yotam Ottolenghi
Home Rich Dried More Fresh South Italy Pasta North Egg Whereas Cream Meat Tomato Served Butter Olive
Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle. Yotam Ottolenghi
Word Simply Meaning Cut Thinly
Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments. Yotam Ottolenghi
Those Definitely Memorable Restaurant Eaten Most None Been Any Establishments Fancy Meals Hardly
For my money, celery hasn't got a mean bit of fibre in its body, and we all need to start being much nicer to it. Yotam Ottolenghi
Money Bit Got Celery Being Mean Much Body Nicer Start Need
The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes. Yotam Ottolenghi
Quality Simple Salad Taste Any Dependent Tomatoes
Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient. Yotam Ottolenghi
Admittedly Main Raw Least Fish Little Acquisition Ingredient Require Planning
Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile. Yotam Ottolenghi
Other Hungry Easy Absorb Make Versatile Italy Pasta Hugely Northern Bread Rice
For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation. Yotam Ottolenghi
People Bird Will Think Revelation Chicken Choice Who Meat
A quick shallow fry is a great way to transform leftovers, and no more so than in the case of risotto. Yotam Ottolenghi
Great Way Case More Shallow Great Way Quick Leftovers Than Transform Fry
Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices. Yotam Ottolenghi
Dark Black Other Nutty Outer Brown Takes Longer Like Also Makes Than Rice Cook Many Why
Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it's just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple. Yotam Ottolenghi
Great You Happy Simple Black Say Absorb Like Bed Egg Just Want Rice Act Keep Things
Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others. Yotam Ottolenghi
Parents Shine Recipes Others Favourites Some More Like Inevitably Than Cooks
Buttermilk's palate-cleansing tartness is one reason it's used a lot in southern India, where meals often end with a small bowl of the stuff served with plain rice and pickles. Yotam Ottolenghi
India Small Pickles Stuff Bowl Lot End Southern Often Where Meals Plain Rice Used Reason Served
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