This recipe is taken from Ryan Riley & Kimberley Duke’s cookbook, Taste & Flavour, which is an amazing resource (free to download). It’s compiled by Life Kitchen – a cook school originally set-up for people with cancer, whose ability to taste has been affected by their treatment. The school was well-placed to help during the Covid pandemic when people suffered loss of taste as a side effect.
The theory is to use five elements – aroma, umami, texture, layering, and trigeminal food sensations (the tingling, burning and cooling we get from spices) – to help people to enjoy food again.