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With these three ingredients, every dish is a blast - it tastes like in a restaurant

2020-10-27T16:24:32.643Z


With a few tricks and certain ingredients, your dishes will soon taste as delicious at home as they are served by a professional chef in a restaurant.


With a few tricks and certain ingredients, your dishes will soon taste as delicious at home as they are served by a professional chef in a restaurant.

What do

chefs in restaurants

actually do differently than we “normal people” at home?

Sure, they have had special training in cooking, are experienced and know the tricks of how, for example, meat is particularly tender * or cakes are particularly fluffy.

But they also use

certain ingredients

that, according to the cookbook, you might not suspect in some dishes.

Try these secret ingredients from chefs to spice up, round off or simply make your home-cooked dishes more interesting.

And best of all: these are not special, expensive ingredients that you can only buy in exotic delicatessen stores.

No, they are perfectly normal ingredients that you probably have at home anyway.

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Lemons - an underrated secret ingredient in cooking

A dash of

lemon juice

is good for almost every dish.

Because the acid makes dishes fresher and balances the

flavors

.

Lemon juice can really make a difference in taste, especially with fatty foods.

In a salad dressing, lemon can replace vinegar and contribute its fruity component.

You can also use the aromatic juice for

sweet dishes

such as creams and cakes to make them more tangy.

Ingredient bay leaves: often left out, but chefs swear by it

Do you

like to

leave out

bay leaves

when they are in recipes?

What should such a small leaf change the taste?

A whole lot!

You probably already know bay leaves from the preparation of meat dishes such as sauerbraten, fricassee and game.

But they also refine the taste in tomato sauces or stews.

Add

one to two bay leaves to

sauces and soups

as they simmer for five to ten minutes.

Laurel is also said to work wonders when cooking rice.

Just give it a try.

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Giving dishes that certain something: Parmesan as a secret weapon

The original from Italy is called

Parmigiano Reggiano.

Good parmesan is a bit more expensive, but it's worth buying.

This cheese takes

many dishes to the next level

with its

spicy taste

.

It is better to buy Parmesan in one piece instead of the grated version in the bag.

Put a few shavings of Parmesan over each

pasta dish

with the cheese grater

- and you'll feel like you've been transported to Italy.

But

Parmesan also tastes wonderful

with

salads

, in sauces or in small pieces on the

cheese platter

with a glass of wine.

A cheaper alternative to Parmesan is

Grana Padano,

but it has a less pronounced taste.

(mad)

* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.

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Source: merkur

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