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bitter after taste to dressings / dips
Posted by:
merry
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Date: February 20, 2011 02:15PM SOrry this may be a bit of a trivial questions compared to the serious topics discussed here but:
i'm experimenting making different raw salad dressings and dips. I'm finding with several of my concotions that I'm getting a slight bitter aftertaste that ruins what at first seems like something really good. but in each case the original ingredients are not bitter. So it seems like two ingredients are reacting together or something. For example: raw hoummos type of thing: lentil sprouts + lemon juice + sunflower seeds + a little garlic + H2O + salt. At first I was pleased how close to regular homous this tasted but then the bitter aftertaste I mentioned... or tomato + basil + almonds + water + salt / miso + a little garlic. Anyone have any idea about the cause? If I make dips with carrot or beetroot I don't get the bitterness. Everything I make with tomato seems to but the tomatoes are not bitter in the beginning. Re: bitter after taste to dressings / dips
Posted by:
Jgunn
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Date: February 20, 2011 04:37PM lentil sprouts can be bitter depending on the lentil ...sometimes garlic can be a bit bitter .. salt and miso can enhance bitterness in some stuff .. ive occaisionally had underripe lemons that tasted more bitter than sour
no question is trivial when its asked with sincerity  ...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist  Re: bitter after taste to dressings / dips
Posted by:
Curator
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Date: February 20, 2011 09:15PM basically everything Jodi just said ^^^ lol... ive found that raw garlic is often bitter though, to me at least, so I use some kind of sweetener or another to cut that bitterness, OJ works well, but I do not always like the flavors of OJ and garlic mixed... have to be in the mood for it... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh, mirror in the sky What is love? Can the child within my heart rise above? Can I sail through the changing ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life? Re: bitter after taste to dressings / dips
Posted by:
Tamukha
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Date: February 20, 2011 09:37PM I'm guessing the raw garlic; mature garlic especially has bitter sulfurous flavor. Re: bitter after taste to dressings / dips
Posted by:
merry
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Date: February 22, 2011 06:39AM Well garlic seems like it might be the culprit so I'll make them without garlic and see if the bitterness goes although I dont know about homous without garlic being that interesting... - the garlic doesnt make problem in carrot based dip though and also gazpacho contains a lot of tomato and garlic and I never remember it being bitter in Spain...but maybe Indian garlic is different in some way...I've never thought of putting OJ in a salad dressing - will give that a try too!! Re: bitter after taste to dressings / dips
Posted by:
Curator
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Date: February 22, 2011 09:18AM tomato and carrot are both really sweet naturally, carrot more so of course... so it would off set the bitter --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh, mirror in the sky What is love? Can the child within my heart rise above? Can I sail through the changing ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life? Re: bitter after taste to dressings / dips
Posted by:
merry
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Date: February 23, 2011 04:12AM yes I know but its tomato thats one of the main ones for me that is coming bitter - but I was meaning in Spain it doesnt happen like that with a garlic tomato combo so I dont know why mine should... Re: bitter after taste to dressings / dips
Posted by:
Curator
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Date: February 23, 2011 06:07AM they usually roast their garlic I thought? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh, mirror in the sky What is love? Can the child within my heart rise above? Can I sail through the changing ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life? Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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