The Currabinny Cooks: The most exciting flavour in cooking right now

Bitter is in our opinion the most exciting flavour profile in cooking right now. This flavour can seem alarming at first but it’s all about how you cook with bitter flavours and what you pair with bitter ingredients. Charring and searing for instance are wonderful ways of managing the bitter edge of bitter ingredients.

The bitter leaves we are most familiar with cooking are the tight torpedo like chicory, which looks like some sort of cabbage/lettuce hybrid. It can be confusing when choosing your bitter leaves to navigate all the different names and varietals that are out there such as endive, witlof, radicchio or puntarelle.