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condiments

Sauces, dressings, marinades and pastes used as condiment for other dishes.

Pesto

This green basil, pine nut and garlic sauce is the pride of Genoa. Serve pesto with any pasta of your choice, cooked, drained, and placed in a warmed dish as a first course. Pesto is also excellent with potatoes or as a base sauce for pizza.

Amish stuffing

First make your own broth - Use the the liver, gizzard, neck, and any other parts included with you turkey. Fill a medium pot with water, add the turkey parts, and boil for 15- 20 minutes until the meats are cooked through. Strain the broth. Cut the organ meat into small pieces. (This is optional, but it does add a lot of flavor to the stuffing.) You can get some meat from the neck, but we normally discard it.If you are not making this with a whole bird, use canned broth.

Basic apple sauce

Apple sauce is simple to prepare. This particular recipe with its pinch of salt and goes very well with roasted meats, roasted pork in particular.

It is equally good with some cold meats as this apple sauce can also be served cold.

Soy

The sauce has a salty flavor, not dissimilar to that of beef extract. - Widely used in Oriental and south-east Asian cuisines: as sauces, paste, bean curd or tofu, in all sorts of savory dishes, marinades, also to season dips and accompaniments. Black bean, hoisin, and miso are common soy based sauces for rice, noodles, meat, fish and poultry dishes.

Sesame

Sesame has a unique flavor, reminiscent of sunflower seeds.  Used in Middle Eastern cuisine, where is added to breads, cakes, used as tahini paste, or as an ingredient in confectionery, as in halva. In Oriental cuisine, sesame seeds are frequently toasted or ground in Chinese, Japanese and Korean cooking, as a condiment.

Salt

Salt brings out the flavor of many foods, destroys the bitterness in some others, and acts as a preservative in many cases. Without salt, food lacks and appetizing and varied taste.

Onions

With their sharp pungent flavor that mellows to slight sweetness when cooked, onions are an essential condiment essential in every cuisine.

Olives & olive oil

Olives, with their characteristic, slightly acidic flavor, are used as appetizers, in salads, pasta sauces,  pizzas, in robust meat and chicken dishes, with vegetables such as eggplant, tomatoes. Olive oil is used in cooking, salad  dressings and sauces.
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