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Asafoetida: flavouring profile
Asafoetida, or hing, is the great paradox of the spice rack: fiercely sulphurous and fetid raw, it mellows when fried in hot oil into a deep, savoury onion-and-garlic umami, and it is that cooked, savoury form, used in the tiniest pinch, that the wine must meet.
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