The Ultimate Guide on how to Balance Flavours

Опубликовано: 13 Август 2026
на канале: The Lagom Chef
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Sign up for the newsletter: https://eatthefoodyoubuy.substack.com... Ok this is a biggy.. you can burn every video I have ever done as long as you keep this one. In cooking you can be really cool and chop fast, hold hot things and deal with multiple dishes but if you can't balance a dish or season properly your food will always be missing something.

Just take a step back and think about food it all starts making sense when you take a step back.

Tomato Sauce
1 onion
2 garlic cloves
2 largish tomatoes

Balance: Salt, vinegar and sugar

Salted Caramel
175g Light soft brown sugar
50g not salted butter
300ml Double Cream

Balance: with salt

Chimichurri
1 red onion
3 garlic cloves
fresh parsley
dried oregano
1 red chilli
olive oil
red wine vinegar
salt

Balance: Salt, vinegar

Red Thai Curry
Aldi dooooo di curry kit
Grapes

Asian Cold dressing
3 - 3 - 1 - 1

3 tbsp Oil
3 tbsp Soy sauce
1 tbsp vinegar
1 tbsp sugar

The knife was the amazing Cuttlebrook knives -   / cuttlebrookknives  




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