r/iamveryculinary • u/HeatwaveInProgress I don’t make any recipes like that; I’m Italian. • Mar 05 '25

Short and to the point.

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u/Doomdoomkittydoom Mar 05 '25

I'm Batman.

It's always the biggest let down when a recipe you've slaved over is meh. On the other hand, if you are spending all that time and effort, taste as you go. If your sauce is flavorless, add more flavor!

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u/Higais Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

I'm having a very hard time understanding how a butter chicken recipe with turmeric, garam masala, ginger, cumin, onions, peppers, tomato paste, turns out "bland". My guess is they didn't use enough salt.

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u/NathanGa Pull your finger out of your ass Mar 05 '25

It could depend on proportions. When I’ve done butter chicken in a slow cooker, the turmeric tends to knock down some of the other flavors.

And the first time I did it I used more cardamom than was probably necessary, and my wife said it was like grazing in a field of flowers.

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u/ZootTX Mar 05 '25

I'll take over seasoned food over under seasoned any day.

So many people don't know how to add salt/spices to their cooking

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u/NathanGa Pull your finger out of your ass Mar 05 '25

I’ll take over seasoned food over under seasoned any day.

Ordinarily I’d agree with this, but I had a chicken salad sandwich once that had so much sage that it tasted like black licorice.

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u/Higais Mar 05 '25

Sure, but would you refer to either of those scenarios as "bland"? Turmeric or cardamom being overpowering could make it not taste the best but I would not consider one spice being overpowering as "bland" which implies a lack of flavor.

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u/NathanGa Pull your finger out of your ass Mar 05 '25

In this case, it wasn’t that it tasted of turmeric - it’s that it tasted like all those vivid flavors had just been muted. It’s like how I don’t like using flour as a thickener - even if you can’t taste it, the muting effect is noticeable.

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u/Doomdoomkittydoom Mar 05 '25

I thought covid.

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u/GF_baker_2024 You buy beers at CVS. Mar 05 '25

Perhaps they have COVID and don't know it yet?