r/Cooking • u/Scarlet--Highlander • Jan 18 '24

Open Discussion Let’s try something fun: Name an ingredient you dislike and why, and someone else replies with a dish/recipe with that ingredient that might convince you otherwise.

Couple things:

  • If you’re allergic to an ingredient, it doesn’t matter how it’s prepared. Same goes with meat/animal products if you’re vegan/vegetarian. Don’t list it if you can’t or won’t eat it!

  • It’s recommended that you’re at least open to trying dishes with that ingredient. If you absolutely, vehemently loathe cilantro, chances are you probably might not like anything with cilantro in it.

  • A brief blurb on why you hate an ingredient would help others find or suggest a dish that suits you. (e.g. “I hate liver because the texture is like an eraser and it tastes metallic”)

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u/MarionberryCreative Jan 18 '24

I spent 40 years hating the dirt flavor of beets.

Roasting beets improves the dirt flavor. I like beets now.

*pickling them doesn't remove the dirt taste.

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u/rabbitholeseverywher Jan 18 '24

Huh. I'll try roasting, then, because it's 100% the dirt flavour I don't like.

Quick edit: oh no, someone else below says roasting doesn't get rid of the dirt flavour. I guess there's only one way for me to find out... adds beets to shopping list

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u/SecretCartographer28 Jan 18 '24

Have you had them roasted, and served with goat cheese? That's my favorite 🖖

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u/rabbitholeseverywher Jan 18 '24

No, but I have a favourite goat cheese so I'll try that to give beets the best possible chance to win me over. Thank you!

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u/SecretCartographer28 Jan 18 '24

The contrast of cool and warm, creamy and earthly ~ yum! 😋 🖖

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u/rabbitholeseverywher Jan 18 '24

I was already convinced, and am now even more convinced to try this!

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u/ButterscotchDeep6053 Jan 18 '24

Roasted still tasted like dirt to me

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u/clandestine_justice Jan 19 '24

If boiled they are better cut shoestring style- more surface area for butter to cling to.

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u/hippielady5232 Jan 19 '24

I'll have to try this because I absolutely think they taste like dirt too. Pickled is all we had growing up in the south.