ADVENTURES IN EXTREME UMAMI #1
Mediterrasian "Miso Levistico"
Sweat half a leek and two chopped cloves of garic in a little olive oil and salt.
Add a large handul of torn lovage leaves. A supermarket has finally started stocking it - Waitrose; use the whole bag.
Add two teaspoons of chopped savory (winter or summer, there isn't as much diff. as the herb books say). If you've no savory (and you should have!) use thyme, lemon thyme is closest to savory.
Add a couple of pints of water and a veg. stock cube. Add some pepper and simmer on low heat for as long as possible. The lovage smell will disinfect yr house by the way, in that it's a stronger smell than just about anything else including fags.
Strain the liquor and add a dessertspoon of miso per mugful of juice you have. Heat through gently, never boil a miso!
UMAMI RATING: 90%
'AN EXPENSES ACCOUNT' Jim Miller's adventures in the banana republic of Nth Herefordshire leominsterindependent@live.co.uk
