Make a recent For dinner, my wife Elisabeth smashed Sohla el-waylly's “hot and thorny” into a cucumber salad, a side dish for a recipe that combines favorite ingredients such as Cukes, Cukes, Chili Crisp, Chili Crisp, Salt, Sugar, Such and Rice Vinegar, and recipes that are less commonly used in our family. Stuffed in, the salad is good, but monosodium glutamate gives it an extra deliciousness, which makes me wonder if Elizabeth intentionally sticks the salad bowl out of my reach.
After I lived in North America and Europe for decades, MSG unfortunately used an ingredient, but here, our tongue was happy. The inspiration to be attracted to it now comes from the trends I’ve been attracted to when I read some of the latest new recipes.
The easiest choice is the one that just released Salt sugar MSGwritten by Calvin Eng and Phoebe Melnick, is a delicious Cantonese event. Tu David Phu and Soleil Ho use MSG regularly in 2024 Memory of tasteand Meathead Goldwyn calls on the fifth page of his brand new recipe to use special sections, Meathead method.
Insert MSG into your books, a subscription service that allows you to search for recipes from your own recipe collection, and I can see that in my recipes, El-wayly makes the most of it in her 2023 James Beard Awards, Start here. Helen Graves has a recipe for MSG Martini BBQ Day, BBQ Nightbesides warning me to interpret the situation, if you have more than one, you may be hammered.
If I searched for books in your books, but came up with the results from these books, the list was almost nothing. What a pity considering the great work that this ingredient does in the kitchen. El-wayly uses it in cucumber salad, cauliflower and coconut soup, as well as a cool pistachio ranch fun dip because she loves ranch so it's fun. Meathead loves it on chicken, Mac and cheese and meat in general. Tu David Fu uses it with sautéed clams, sticky rice dumplings and tomato-stewed salmon belly. Calvin Eng uses it for almost everything.
“I kept the salt, sugar, MSG on the counter all the time,” Inger said, with a little MSG heart tattoo on the back of his left arm.
He is a self-proclaimed “Love and MSG user” and he still has AHA moments that can help him appreciate its power. His favorite example is the Cantonese chicken soup with shallot, ginger and shaoxing wine, containing salt and MSG. Once at a private dinner, he tasted the broth across from the head of salt and salt next to the MSG and was impressed by it.
“It adds umami to the umami,” he said, referring to the “fifth taste” of salty, sweet, sour and bitter salty. “It adds a layer. It makes you want more.” Indeed, I tried some across the head with my own broth cup and loved to master its effect and how to use it. Salt will increase depth, but salt and MSG will make the broth bigger, deeper, rounder and more delicious.
