One of Food52's Best Cookbooks of Fall 2019
One of Epicurious' 12 Best Gift Ideas for the Vegetarian in Your Life
"Umami Bombis your go-to guide for infusing every meal with deliciousness....Thanks to Raquel's clever ideas and the abundant flavor in her smart, streamlined recipes, this book is set to become a kitchen classic." Lindsay Maitland Hunt, author of Healthyish and Help Yourself
Ingeniously built around the use of eight umami-rich ingredientsaged cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms, soy sauce, miso, caramelized onions, smoke, and nutritional yeastUmami Bomb's 75 recipes are bursting with the sublime, savory fifth tasteand they're vegetarian!
Turn mushrooms into "lardons" for a bold take on Southern black-eyed peas and greens. Caramelize onions to use in the best grilled cheese ever. Add a secret spoonful of soy sauce to the frosting of your next chocolate cakethe soy taste disappears but leaves behind an unexpected depth of flavor. Part of the brilliance of Umami Bomb is how the recipes layer these key ingredients to amplify their effectlike adding miso to an already cheesy cacio e pepe sauce for pasta so savory and delicious you'll do a double take.
Umami Bomb "addresses the "depth" issue for vegetarian cooks with a love letter to umami... [Pelzel's] insanely next-level grilled cheese recipe deploys two umami bombs miso and caramelized onions and, dare I say, is as satisfyingly decadent as a burger." Jenny Rosenstrach, A Cup of Jo