How To Temper Spices Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes Tempering is a technique used throughout the Indian sub-continent in which whole spices – and sometimes ingredients like curry leaves and dried chillies – are quickly fried in oil or ghee. The frying releases essential oils and […]
Za’atar Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! Za’atar simply means thyme in Arabic and the smell of wild thyme crushed underfoot as you walk through the hills in Lebanon is one of the most evocative aromas. Za’atar as a spice blend is a mixture of dried thyme, sumac (a ground tangy, […]
Lebanese 7 Spice (Baharat) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! The classic seasoning in most Lebanese dishes is 7 Spice, also called baharat, and each cook and spice merchant has their preferred combination and ratio of spices. Many blends contain more than seven spices, as the “seven” may more literally mean […]
How To Make Roasted Chilli Powder Master More Thai Kitchen Basics With This Online Thai Cooking Class Inspired By David Thompson One of the great joys of Thai food is the way it layers flavours. Using a pinch (or two) of ground roasted dried chilli introduces a delightfully smoky resonant depth to all sorts of […]
How to Make Dried Turmeric Powder Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes Chef David Thompson showed me how easy it is to make ground dried turmeric (powdered turmeric) at home. Of course you can buy it but, as David says, “the perfume and taste of homemade dried […]
How to Make Dried Ginger Powder Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes Of course you can buy ground (or powdered) ginger. But chef David Thompson showed me how easy it is to make your own and, as he points out, “the perfume and taste of homemade dried […]
How to Make Dried Galangal Powder Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes You can buy powdered galangal in Asian grocers but, as Thai food expert David Thompson says, “the perfume and taste of homemade dried galangal powder is much more alluring and it’s so simple to make.” […]
How to Prepare Saffron Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes There are two ways to prepare saffron for use in cooking: brewing (with hot water) and blooming (with ice). Brewing is the traditional way. Blooming is a modern technique created to preserve as much of the saffron’s […]
Spice-Rubbed Leatherjacket Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Middle Eastern cooking class inspired by Michael Rantissi! I love the thick flaky texture of the fish in this spice-rubbed leatherjacket recipe, but you could use any firm-fleshed fish, whole or fillets, including some of the oilier ones like mackerel or tuna as they’ll stand up […]
Advieh (Persian Spice Blend) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Persian cooking class! Advieh, Persian cuisine’s all-purpose spice mix, is a blend of equal quantities of earthy warm spices, with the aromatic lift of dried rose petals. Cooks usually grind up a batch from whole spices and store it in an airtight jar to […]
