The Secret Ingredient Cookbook: 125 Family-Friendly Recipes with Surprisingly Tasty Twists by Kelly Sensei

 

The Secret Ingredient Cookbook: 125 Family-Friendly Recipes with Surprisingly Tasty Twists by Kelly Sensei of Just a taste

Do you like regaling your friends with wonderful food? Do they ask you for the recipes often?

Once a friend made an eggplant curry and asked me to guess the secret ingredient. it was creamy. I thought it might be some nut paste. It was coconut milk.

This is a neat thing. The secret ingredient. Sometimes the secret ingredient changes the taste profile for example it adds the sweet into the 'sweet and savory', sometimes it makes it fluffy,  Yogurt seems to be a favorite secret ingredient. 

By learnign what the secret ingredient does to the dish, you also learn new cooking principles that you can customise into your next dish.

The core of it is that you can always take a dish further with the addition of another one, well chosen ingredient. It pushes the creativity of the chef. If its something not easy to place, then it makes for a fun game of asking those who are enjoying the food, to guess what might the ingredient be.