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Paprika fumé

on its own
1.0sour
2.0sweet
3.0savoury
2.0bitter
1.0umami
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3 of these 27 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

27 pairings for Paprika fumé.

It is the same fruit, dried and smoked. You are stacking one flavour.

Chorizo

classic

It is the sausage. Pork, salt, and enough pimentón to stain the fat.

Jaque

common

Smoke and sweet red are doing the work the missing pork was supposed to do.

Nutty starch takes smoke and holds it through a two-hour stew.

Fat-soluble smoke phenols; the oil turns orange and carries everything.

Ail

common

Sulfur under smoke, the base of every Spanish red sauce there is.

Poulet

common

Rubbed under the skin it browns fast and tastes of a longer cook.

Creamy beans need something dark; smoke does what a ham hock would.

Œuf

common

Fried in the pimentón oil, then dusted again. Sulfur plus bonfire.

Phenols in the smoke lock onto the browned skin and read as one crust.

Smoke without a pig. Same phenols, none of the fat.

Aubergine

uncommon

Doubles the smoke when you have no live fire to hand.

Manchego

uncommon

Pimentón's smoke reads as rind. Dust the cheese, not the plate.

Smoke without meat. The bean is bland enough to take the whole tin.

Portobello

uncommon

Adds the smoke a domestic grill never gets hot enough to make.

Tempeh

uncommon

Smoke on a lean protein reads as cured; this is the tempeh-bacon con.

Mayonnaise

uncommon

Smoke dissolves into oil, so the paprika reads deeper than it does dry.

Mezcal

uncommon

Pimenton smoke plus pit smoke; the sweetness in the pepper keeps it from turning to ash.

Sweet smoke over musky fruit turns the compote into something for meat.

Gombo

rare

Grilled whole pods take smoke well; the slime never forms at all.

Cacao

rare

Two dark roasted powders; the smoke stands in for the missing chilli heat.

Cerise

wild

Smoke phenols under stone fruit sugar read as something barbecued, not baked.

Ananas

wild

Sweet smoke over sulfurous fruit; the grill marks stop being decoration.

Iodine and woodsmoke, the way tinned smoked mussels already prove it works.