Flavor Profiles and How to Balance and Enhance These Flavors in Your Cooking
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GUIDE TO Here’s your guide to basic flavor profiles and how to balance and enhance these flavors in your cooking. With this info you’ll create FLAVOR PROFILES perfectly balanced and flavorful culinary masterpieces! SALTY & SAVORY/UMAMI BITTERNESS Balances bitterness. Enhances sweetness. Balances sweet, salt. THE FLAVOR STAR SALTY/ UMAMI IF YOU NEED TO ADD SALT/UMAMI ENHANCES IF YOU NEED TO ADD BITTER Brings out the other flavor SPICE SWEET BALANCES KOSHER SEA ANCHOVIES/ HARD CHEESES, Counteracts the other SALT SALT ANCHOVY PASTE LIKE PARMESAN flavor. If your dish is COFFEE COCOA/CACAO GRAPEFRUIT JUICE BEER experiencing too much of BITTER SOUR one flavor, use a balancing FOOD INGREDIENTS THAT ARE BITTER flavor to level it out. SOY FISH PICKLED SAUCE SAUCE SEAWEED MISO VEGETABLES Balances sourness, bitterness, DANDELION GREENS ENDIVES BROCCOLI SPINACH FOOD INGREDIENTS THAT ARE SALTY/UMAMI SWEET spice. Enhances saltiness. IF YOU NEED TO ADD SWEET MUSHROOMS TOMATOES BACON AND OTHER CURED MEATS KALE OKRA BITTER MELON RADICCHIO MAPLE JAM SOUR SUGAR STEVIA SYRUP HONEY SPICY Balances spice, sweetness. Enhances saltiness. Balances sour, sweet. IF YOU NEED TO ADD SOUR IF YOU NEED TO ADD SPICE BALSAMIC APPLE CIDER BBQ MOLASSES VINEGAR VINEGAR KETCHUP SAUCE LEMON LIME ORANGE VINEGARS LIKE SHERRY, RED, RICE, JUICE JUICE JUICE BALSAMIC, APPLE CIDER FOOD INGREDIENTS THAT ARE SWEET HOT SAUCES WASABI HORSERADISH DIJON MUSTARD PICKLED BUTTERNUT, TOMATO PASTE YOGURT SOUR CREAM SWEET CORN BEETS KABOCHA VEGETABLES CARROTS POTATOES SQUASH HARISSA JALPEÑOS HABAÑEROS FOOD INGREDIENTS THAT ARE SOUR FOOD INGREDIENTS THAT ARE SPICY RADISHES TOMATOES SUGAR MOST ARUGULA (WHEN RAW) WATERCRESS SNAP PEAS FENNEL PARSNIPS PEAS FRUIT helping home cooks live To learn more about adding flavor to your meals visit happier, simpler, smarter in the kitchen cooksmarts.com/flavor.