The Easy Tasty Magic food range by Laura Santtini aims to make cooking a bit more ‘magical’. The crown jewel in the collection is the Taste #5 Umami Paste. This paste claims to make any savoury dish taste better, with its combination of all the things that you might usually add to a dish to bring out that extra ‘oomph’. It contains tomatoes, parmesan, porcini mushrooms, anchovies (you can’t taste them, I promise), black olives (you can taste these) and balsamic vinegar. I bought the £2.99 paste in Selfridges, and took it home to try in a homemade stir fry sauce. I tried the paste on its own and it has an interesting flavour, some of the ingredients you can taste but some you can’t. I tasted my sauce before adding a small squeeze of the paste. After whisking my sauce I tried it again – and was pleasantly surprised. This paste really does set your taste buds alight and whilst you can’t taste the paste itself, it just made the sauce seem so much more flavoursome. Add to that the long shelf life of the paste (which isn’t reduced once it’s been opened, you just then need to keep it refrigerated) and you really understand why this should be in everyone’s kitchen to add to all of those home cooked (or not so home cooked) meals.
The entire range features a number of other products that claim to crank up your cooking by a few notches, such as edible glitter sprays and various meat and fish rubs. The Alchemical Larder contains 16 of these rubs, so you can get really creative in the kitchen. This is next on my list of purchases, priced at £25.00. Easy Tasty Magic is available at Selfridges http://www.selfridges.com/en/Food-Wine/?freeText=easy+tasty+magic&template=3
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