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GRILLED MEAT: MAILLARD FROM BARREL TO GRILL

Jun 28, 2021

Whether it’s meat, fish or vegetables, green coffee, cocoa beans, maple water or oak barrels, the combustion of these ingredients generates a multitude of new aromatic compounds. For example, the aroma molecules in oak-aged wines and spirits are the same as those in foods cooked on the grill or roasted in the oven. 

Complementary Ingredients

  • Apricot
  • Pineapple
  • Beetroot
  • Black pudding
  • Mushroom
  • Strawberry
  • Mango
  • Peach
  • Potato
  • Black licorice

Wine & Complementary Drinks

  • Bourbon
  • Marsanne
  • Malbec
  • Scotch
  • Roussanne
  • Tea Wulong
  • Oloroso

More to discover in the book Taste Buds and Molecules.

RECIPES

Discover the aromatic recipes on the website: www.recettesaromatiques.com by Francois Chartier.