Thickening Agents

Thickening Agents

1. cornflour

   • mix the corflour with a little bit of water to create a thing called a cornflour slurry
   • Doesn't affect the taste, used it in past experiments and works very well

2. flour

   • with flour you can make roux which is just flour and butter mixed together, or you can just add water.
   • you need to let the flour properly cook through otherwise you will get a weird tatse.

3. Potatoes

   • You can just whizz them up in the soup and it will thicken it.
   • this shouldn't taste weird from previous experiments.

4. egg yolk

   • you just put your egg yolk into your soup and it will thicken it slightly.
   • it shouldn't taste eggy but make sure it is thoroughly cooked.

5. Pasta

   • just add your pasta in and it will release starch to thicken the soup
   • adding pasta will make a nice texture and it will taste nice.

6. Tomato puree

   • you can thicken it slightly by adding tomato puree
   • this will make it taste even better.