Type: Sweetness
Charred peppers and fresh corn polenta with soy-cured yolk
Curing yolks in soy, as we do here, adds creaminess, complexity and a hit of umami to this polenta. It’s a nifty…
Coconut and turmeric omelette feast
These are much thinner than your average omelette, more like crêpes or pancakes, in fact, but without the flour. They are meant…
Romano pepper schnitzels
In 2016, the German minister for agriculture called for a ban on vegetable-based foods being named after their meat-based counterparts, claiming terms…
Butternut, orange and sage galette
The hyper-flaky pastry, which is rich from the butter and crunchy from the polenta, is the star here. Double it and keep…
Fusion caponata with silken tofu
The word ‘fusion’ is greeted with suspicion these days. For cooking to be described as fusion is almost to say, without saying,…
Esme’s rough squash mash
Esme Howarth, a friend, an ex-test kitchen colleague and a chef of great talent, has a particular knack for creating flavour-packed one-pan…
Giant couscous and pumpkin with tomato and star anise sauce
Crown Prince is a sweet and buttery pumpkin. Its tough skin is hard to cut through when raw, so you’ll need a…
One-pan orecchiette puttanesca
This is a sweetened version of puttanesca – the famous pasta sauce from Naples ‘in the style of the prostitute’ – minus…