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Anchois

Pas un ingrédient, un assaisonnement avec une arête. Se dissout dans tout et ne réclame jamais le mérite.

on its own
1.0sour
0.0sweet
5.0savoury
0.0bitter
5.0umami
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9 of these 79 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

79 pairings for Anchois.

Sucrine

classic

The leaf is a spoon. Salt goes in the hollow and stays there.

One salt hit inside the cheese. The flower has no savour of its own.

Agneau

classic

A fillet melted into the roasting tray. Nobody tastes fish, everyone tastes more lamb.

Two glutamate sources, one salted. The paste brings sugar, the fish salt.

Salt melts into the oil and every spear gets seasoned twice.

Blette

common

Salt from the sea for a leaf that already tastes faintly of it.

Pissenlit

common

The most aggressive of the bitter greens needs the most salt. Two fillets, wilted in, not chopped over.

Poivron

common

Roasted pepper is sweet and wet; anchovy is the salt line through it.

Sugar plus salt on toast. The oldest tapa going.

Melted into the oil, it seasons the bean from the outside in.

Salt-umami takes the heat and gives it something to hang on.

Bœuf

common

The fish disappears entirely and the beef gets a full octave louder.

Citron

common

Acid keeps the salt from flattening everything under it.

Salt and glutamate injected into a cheese that has neither.

One fillet, one egg, one toast. Salt and sulfur at the same size.

Pâtes

common

Melted into the oil before the garlic goes in. It seasons the whole pan and disappears.

Chapelure

common

Melted into the oil the crumbs fry in. Salt arrives with no visible source.

Doenjang

common

Dried fish stock under bean paste — two ferments stacking glutamate.

Fermented fish umami finds the yeast umami and stops tasting like fish.

Cédrat

uncommon

Salt-fish glutamate on white pith; the fruit works as a vegetable here.

Melted into the oil first, it seasons every skin the tomatoes split open.

Radis

uncommon

Salt-fish glutamate makes a vegetable that is mostly water taste like food.

Chou

uncommon

Glutamate is what the leaf lacks entirely; one fillet seasons a whole head.

Melted into the fat first, so every leaf gets glutamate instead of just some.

Chou-fleur

uncommon

Melted into oil it seasons every crevice a floret has, and it has many.

Chou frisé

uncommon

Melt it into the pan first. Salt reaches the wax before heat does.

Épinard

uncommon

Salt and glutamate replace the cream in a leaner pan.

Trévise

uncommon

Grill the head until the edges char, then drape the fillet over while it is still hot.

Courgette

uncommon

Melted anchovy supplies the salt and umami courgette lacks entirely.

Aubergine

uncommon

Salt-cured fish supplies the savour the vegetable only hints at.

Basilic

uncommon

Salt-fish umami under a green leaf: the whole Ligurian trick.

Veau

uncommon

Salt and umami injected where the meat forgot to bring any.

Burrata

uncommon

A glutamate injection for a cheese that is otherwise all texture.

Parmesan

uncommon

Two glutamate bombs. Halve both or the dish tastes only of savoury.

Œuf

uncommon

Glutamate and sulfur. One mashed fillet through scrambled egg is a dish.

Pain

uncommon

Salt and umami hit harder when the vehicle is bland and brittle.

Polenta

uncommon

Dissolved in butter it salts the whole pot and nobody tastes fish.

Salt fish on butter pastry: the crust is the only thing sweet in the mouthful.

Melted into the oil it becomes salt with a savoury tail, not fish.

Glutamate plus concentrated fructose reads as depth, not as sweet-and-salty.

Glutamate on a fruit that has some already; it stops being sweet within one bite.

Navet

rare

Sulfur and glutamate. The turnip stops tasting watery and starts tasting cooked.

Salt-cured fish on a green pepper is the Basque pintxo shortcut.

Melted into the roasting oil, it seasons every crevice of the frill.

Italian treatment on a Chinese brassica. Salt-fish does what oyster sauce does, louder.

Salt-fish savour on a bitter brassica, the Italian rapini trick applied to a Cantonese one.

Two fermented funks stacked. The resin does garum work with no salt attached.

Sicilian sweet-savoury: salt and bitterness on one axis.

Salt on melon, but with glutamate bolted onto it.

Salt and glutamate straight into a cheese with neither. Mash, do not chop.

Put the umami back where the recipe removed it. Salt the sweetness hard.

Figue

wild

Salt-fish glutamate on jammy sugar. Two ingredients, and it tastes like a sauce.

Glutamate against the tomato note buried in the fruit. It stops tasting sweet.

Açaï

wild

Glutamate against oily bitterness; the pulp starts behaving like an olive tapenade.

Salt-fish savour against a grassy hollow stem, the same logic as garlic and greens turned Italian.

Salt-fish against mild allium, the Italian garlic-and-anchovy move with a gentler garlic.

Fraise

wild

Fish-sauce logic on fruit: salt makes the berry more itself.

Salt suspended in cocoa butter. The fish reads as caramel.

Both are pure salt-and-roast hunger. Pounded together it stops reading as nut.

Salt fish under date sugar is a Persian idea nobody exported. It should travel.