James Silverton wrote:
> Elder wrote on Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:28:31 -0000:
>
>> Yes, seen on the BBC breakfast news this morning, from next
>> week, people in the UK will be able to buy tubes of Umami
>> paste like you can with tomato paste and garlic/ginger paste.
>> --
>
> Is this for real? Umami is the fifth sense of taste and is usually
> increased with MSG. However, I have heard that there is paste made from
> special mushrooms that is supposed to impart umami. Probably the
> mushrooms are high on glutamate.

I thought Unami was the Japanese combo of equal parts soy sauce, sesame
oil and sake?

From the recommended web site describing the ingredients of the "Unami"
sauce:

"Taste No. 5 combines umami-rich Italian ingredients such as tomato,
Parmesan cheese and porcini mushrooms into a single paste that can be
rubbed, squeezed or spread."

I have spiced up the soy sauce, sake & sesame oil with various other
herbs and spices such as ginger, garlic, chinese 5 spices, & etc. but
the basic sauce is very good and very versatile.

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