Ube - the purple yam conquers the autumn kitchen
The purple yam, also known as ube, is a culinary highlight of Filipino cuisine and is growing in popularity beyond brightly colored desserts. With its nutty and warm vanilla flavor, ube also enhances savory dishes and foods this season to add a touch of autumn flavour to your dish! The growing demand for Ube is largely due to the offerings of innovative bakeries that are venturing into new worlds of flavor. The eye-catching color and versatile sweet yet mild flavor makes Ube an attractive ingredient for fall dishes.
The variety of Ube: from savory dishes to sweet snacks
Enhance sweet and savory dishes and snacks with the pleasant flavor and purple color of Ube. The emerging autumn spice offers creative use in:
- Dishes: Extend the use of ube beyond desserts and sweets and use its versatile flavor in rice, pasta, sandwiches, and burger buns to add an interesting component to dishes.
- Sauces and Spreads: Add a colorful seasonal accent to your cooking with homemade ube spreads and sauces and give your dishes a special touch.
- Pastries: Offer handmade pastries with a Filipino touch for the fall season. Discover the creative uses of ube in baked goods and treat your guests to unique pastry variations.
- Snacks: Add a sweet touch and cheerful color to savory snacks like pretzels and chips with Ube. Experiment with different varieties and draw inspiration from the diverse snacking and baking traditions of Asia to create new and exciting delicacies with a hint of autumn spice!
Present dishes impressively with Ube
To present dishes with ube impressively, you can rely on special tableware. For example, use the PLAYGROUND glass cloche to stage the culinary creation under an elegant glass bell. Serve the dishes on stylish metal plates that add a modern and sophisticated touch. For a refined presentation, you can use oval or rectangular plates from NARA BLACK, which with their minimalist design and high-quality ceramic make the Ube dishes real eye-catchers.
Curry: warming and aromatic spice blend for autumn
Curry, with its warm, comforting flavors, really makes you long for fall. Curry as a dish, i.e. the preparation of meat or vegetables in a strongly spiced sauce, is a culinary tradition that encompasses various cuisines of the world, from Indian tikka masala and Thai massaman to Indonesian rendang and South African durban curry.
Innovative chefs are moving beyond classic curry styles and introducing new global curry varieties with varying degrees of heat, including mild, "family-friendly" curries to deliver a tasteful touch of autumn flavour.
Creative curry compositions: Warming variety for autumn dishes
Curry offers a warming flavor experience for fall menus with its spicy and versatile flavors. Some examples:
- Dairy products: Use curry blends to add a slight spiciness and more complexity to cheese, seasoned butter and spreads.
- Dishes: Add a touch of curry heat to classic fall vegetables like pumpkin or sweet potato, for example, in hearty soups, stews or purees.
- Ingredients: Put together spice blends or provide recipes that your customers can use to make different curries at home.
Set the scene for curry dishes in style
To present curry dishes in style in your catering establishment, you should rely on high-quality tableware. For example, use the SCOPE collection bowls from BAUSCHER, which are perfect for spooning. Whether in white or in the colors GLOW GRAY or GLOW SEA, SCOPE highlights the versatile curry dishes with its round shape and dotted texture. The bowls, therefore, offer an ideal serving option and presentation surface, especially for liquid dishes.
Mushrooms - Natural autumn flavors for a tasty cuisine
Mushrooms are known for their naturally earthy and meaty flavors that add a complex and unique taste to autumn dishes. As demand for new mushroom varieties beyond mushrooms, porcini, and the like increases, diverse mushrooms are increasingly becoming protagonists in autumnal dishes, leading to a veritable "mushroom boom." To bring out the individual flavors of mushrooms, innovative chefs are also experimenting with different preparation techniques such as marinating or fermenting which can really bring out the autumnal flavour of the dish.
Mushroom dishes: autumn and varied delicacies
How to use mushrooms in autumn cooking:
- Food: Use different cooking techniques such as roasting, grilling, roasting and drying to release more ribonucleotides - the natural chemical compounds that create umami flavor. Also take advantage of the variety of rare mushroom species as alternatives to classics like mushrooms and porcini.
- Snacks: Add an aromatic mushroom flavor to savory snacks to naturally reduce the need for salt content.
- Sauces and Spices: Make mushroom-based spice blends, pastes and sauces to easily add autumnal flavor to a variety of dishes.
Appealingly stage dishes with mushrooms
For example, the NATURE INFUSED décor concept from Schönwald provides the perfect stage for presenting mushroom dishes in style. With natural design, the tableware creates a harmonious connection with the earthy aesthetics of mushroom dishes. Take a look at the video from our food stylist Monika Schuster. She loves nature-based cuisine and explains how to integrate the theme of "sustainability" into your kitchen.
Bourbon: Whiskey flavors for special pleasure experiences
With its nuances of vanilla, oak and caramel, bourbon whiskey enhances a variety of seasonal fall specialties, from smoked meats to caramelized vegetable dishes and desserts to add that special trace of autumn spice.
Indulgence with depth: the versatile use of bourbon in autumn dishes
Bourbon adds depth to both sweet and savory autumnal specialties. This is how you use the complexity of bourbon in the kitchen:
- Ingredients: Combine classic fall flavors like honey, brown sugar, pumpkin, apple, pecan, maple or walnut with the rich and complex bourbon flavor to bring out caramel and vanilla-like notes.
- Seasonings: Create a ready-to-use bourbon glaze or sauce that can be added over vegetables, meats or desserts.
- Pastries and desserts: Enhance baked goods with bourbon flavoring, be it breads, cakes, cookies, bars or puddings.
Bourbon specialties aesthetically arrange
Bourbon specialties can be not only a culinary but also a visual delight. With the stylish PERFECT MATCH _oyster collection from HEART&SOUL, you can set the stage for your bourbon creations in an appealing way. The pearlized products in this collection, such as plates and bowls, allow for an aesthetic presentation that enhances the enjoyment of the food to perfectly complement its autumnal flavor.
