My Top 5 Favourite Ingredients and Why I Love Using Them

Adding these ingredients to your kitchen will massively improve what you are creating and will make you feel a lot better about what you are eating, as your dishes will be booming with flavour.

Eating well and healthy does not for one second have to mean boring, it can be so much more.

In this post, I’m going to give you my go-to ingredients that I use in my dishes.  These ingredients will give your food so much flavour, leaving you amazed at the results.

Apple Cider Vinegar

This is amazing stuff, I use it in all sorts of savoury food. It’s great for salad dressings, marinades and sauces.

It’s also great for enhancing other flavours too. When making raw cakes, for instance, I will sometimes just add a drop of it (literally just a drop) to enhance the flavour of a chocolate orange cake.

Apple cider vinegar also has great health benefits and is an alkaline vinegar, meaning it’s also fermented.

Cinnamon

Amazing for enhancing sweet dishes and adding flavour to things like cakes, chocolates and nut creams. It’s also great for your blood sugar levels and cardiovascular health.

My homemade almond milk recipe is heavily flavoured with cinnamon, and is one of my favourite recipes.

Lemon Juice

Lemon juice is a great way to draw out the flavour of foods and is a very good source of Vitamin C and Potassium. Lemon juice is perfect for sprucing up a salad or dressings.

Vanilla in desserts

This is a great one to use for a sweet treat as it adds a whole level of different flavour! Try it in nut milk that you make from scratch and smoothies too, along with desserts.

Tamari Sauce

This is a gluten-free alternative to Soy Sauce. It’s also an amazing salt replacement, so when you are using this sauce you can use way less salt within your cooking!